The last session of Training Course "Museum Mediators" will be held at the National Museum of Archaeology (Lisbon, Portugal) on 4th November. This action will have the presence of 25 museum mediators from several European countries.

The EMEE team Portugal is responsible for conducting this session and will make the presentation of the Project Emee: - One object - Many Visions.

High Propensity Visitors: The True Attributes of People Attending Museums and Cultural Centers (DATA) | Know Your Own Bone

High Propensity Visitors: The True Attributes of People Attending Museums and Cultural Centers (DATA) | Know Your Own Bone

Change of Perspective: a funny moment.

What ideas can we learn with this photo?

Macro or Micro? Test Your Sens of Scale

You might be curious, is this something macroscopic or microscopic? It’s actually the wing of a green darner dragonfly, as seen through a scanning electron microscope. Image by Paul Kelly.

EMEE joins Pinterest!

The EMEE Project now has a Pinterest site at http://www.pinterest.com/emmemuseums/

Pins are been added all the time, so make sure you don't miss any!

Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

When you count attendance to your museum, do you include:
people who eat in the cafe?
people who rent the facility for private events?
people who engage with your content online?
participants in offsite outreach programs?
volunteers?

The Vikings are coming…

The Vikings are coming… British Museum launches The BP Exhibition Vikings: life and legend

6 March – 22 June 2014
Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery
Supported by BP

The first major exhibition on Vikings at the British Museum for over 30 years.
Features many new archaeological discoveries and objects never seen before in the UK alongside important Viking Age artefacts from the British Museum’s own collection and elsewhere in Britain and Ireland.
New interpretations place warfare and warrior identity at the centre of what it meant to be a Viking; cultural contact was often violent, and the transportation of looted goods and slaves reflects the role of Vikings as both raiders and traders.

Cultural Mediation & Storytelling in Museums

Cultural Mediation & Storytelling in Museums - using theatre, video and digital technologies.

http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/index.cfm?fuseaction=DisplayCourse&cid=37940

The Educational Museum Conference

We invite you to attend the conference The Educational Museum: Innovations and Technologies Transforming Museum Education.

The main topic of the conference will be the development of museums from spaces where art, crafts and natural history’s findings were collected and exhibited, to spaces where social, cultural and educational events are taking place.

Cultural heritage risk management conference, Bangkok

Cultural heritage risk management conference, Bangkok, Thailand
The International Conference on Cultural Heritage and Disaster Risk Reduction, Nov 18-20 2013, Bangkok, Thailand, will be held by SEAMEO SPAFA (Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts) with support from the Japan Foundation.

Context Hacking

Context Hacking. How to Mess with Art, Media, Law and the Market http://www.monochrom.at/context-hacking-essay/

The 2013 European Culture Forum is coming!

On the 4th, 5th and 6th of November, the European Culture Forum will bring together 1,200 participants from cultural civil society, the EU Member States, as well as partner countries, and EU institutions.
This flagship event, organised by DG EAC in Brussels, will provide a unique opportunity to debate and raise the profile of European cooperation in the field of culture.

12th Conference «European Culture» 24-26 October 2013 Barcelona, Spain

The Charlemagne Institute of European Studies invites you to the 12th Conference «European Culture» which will take place in Barcelona, Spain on 24-26 October 2013 at the Campus of the International University of Catalonia.

Remains of a Thracian carriage and two horses buried upright found.

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a Thracian carriage and two horses that appear to have been buried upright.

The chariot and horse skeletons are 2,500-years-old and were discovered in the village of Svestari in north-east Bulgaria.

The two-wheeled carriage and carcasses of the horses were found in a Thracian tomb along with some decorations.

2nd EMEE conference

2nd EMEE conference,
12th-15th November
2013 Rome, Italy

Symposium, The audience in view - LWL Open Air Museum Hagen, Germany

Symposium, The audience in view – visitors research as impetus für visitor-oriented Museums work, 7th-8th November 2013, LWL Open Air Museum Hagen, Germany.

2 Huge Screens @ National Museum of Archaeology's Entrance

At the main entrance of the National Museum of Archaeology in Lisbon at the Monastery of Jeronimos (World Heritage) it’s possible to see two huge screens about recently opened exhibitions made with the collaboration of the EMEE Portuguese team.

How WEB 2.0 Is Changing the Nature of Museum Work - Lynda Kelly, Ph.D.

“How WEB 2.0 Is Changing the Nature of Museum Work”

Lynda Kelly, Ph.D.

XIX Luigi Micheletti Award

XIX LUIGI MICHELETTI AWARD - DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1ST, 2013
EMA - European Museum Academy and the Luigi Micheletti Foundation are pleased to announce that it is still possible to submit an application for the XIX Luigi Micheletti Award.

Annual member meeting ICOM-Germany

Annual member meeting ICOM-Germany, Die Ethik des Bewahrens-Ethics of preservation, 17th-19th October, Cologne, Germany

http://www.icom-deutschland.de/

Museum Metamorphosis

Tuesday 5 November and
Wednesday 6 November 2013

A two-day interdisciplinary postgraduate conference at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester

World Culture Forum, 24-27 November, Bali, Indonesia

World Culture Forum
The Power of Culture in Sustainable Development
24 – 27 November 2013, Bali, Indonesia
In 2011 the UN General Assembly called for a more visible and effective integration and mainstreaming of culture into development policies and strategies at all levels.

Museum Education Roundtable

Turning Visitors into Citizens: Using Social Science for Civic Engagement in Informal Science Education CentersAlexis Bunten and Shannon Arvizu

museumeducation.info

A good idea of cooperation between networks!

ASEF Creative Networks encourages collaborations among networks in order to reinforce the dialogue between cultural professionals from Asia and Europe.

European Heritage Days 2013 - Photo Album

Meeting To Discuss Acessibility to Mosteiro dos Jerónimos

The Mosteiro dos Jerónimos in Lisbon, Portugal is a World Heritage Monument with more than 3 million visitants / year. In order to discuss the acessibility to Mosteiro dos Jerónimos took place a meeting between architects, museologists, directors, museum specialists and technicians.

Interpretation of Cultural Heritage

Conference: INTERPRETATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
October 18th and 19th 2013, Slovene Ethnographical Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Slovenian Ethnological Society

"More real than the real", CreArt European Exhibition 2013

Seventh Annual Arse Elektronika

The seventh annual Arse Elektronika, a conference on sex and technology, takes place October 3 through 6 in San Francisco. This year’s conference will focus on issues of identity through talks, videos, and performances.

Museum Ideas 2013

Museum Ideas 2013: “original thinking from international museum innovators”, 3rd October 2013, Museum of London, United Kingdom

http://www.museum-id.com/event-detail.asp?id=383

Constructing Sustainable Visions for the Future

MANAGEMENT OF MUSEUMS during the financial crisis: sustainable solutions for the future of museums
October 4th and 5th 2013, National Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia,
Slovene ICOM Council, National Museum, Kultur agenda and Institute for museums, cultural institutions and public.
At the deepening of financial crisis, the museums are increasingly threatened by continued reduction in public funding. We believe that museums need to learn and develop new ways of thinking, which will be crucial for their existence. Museums must adapt to new views and perspectives, rather than solely focusing on survival.