24 - 29 August 2008
Mexico City , Mexico

Joint Meeting of : Annual meeting of the International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections (Comité International de Musées et Collections de Instruments Musicaux, CIMCIM) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics
Theme: Explaining Musical Instruments in a Museum
Venue: National School of Music of the National Autonomous University of Mexico

Contact:
ISMA 2008, Mexico City, Escuela Nacional de Música, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Xicoténcatl No. 126 Col. Del Carmen 04100, México, D.F. Mexico
Tel: (52-55) 5680-3746 Tel/Fax: (52-55) 5651-5998 Fax: (52) 55 5601-3210
Email: ciamim08@yahoo.com

25 - 29 August 2008
Rio de Janeiro , Brazil

Come to the ICOMAM's first South American conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, where colleagues from arms and military museum around the world will meet, sharing knowledge and experiences between diferent cultures and continents and making strategies for a positive future. There will be conference sessions during the morning and visits to Brasilian musuems during afternoons. Papers about conservation projects, display techniques, showing the history, new research, marketing strategies and others related to the subject, to be selected for presentation in the Conference, are welcome.

Contact:
Tel. (55) (21) 2524 9199 Fax (55) (21) 2533 6696
Email :icomamrio2008@dphcm.mar.mil.br
More information at : http://www.icomamrio2008.com.br/

25 - 31 August 2008
Aarhus, Bjerringbro, Copenhagen, Denmark

36th CIMUSET Conference
Theme: ‘Museums and Science Centres in Industrial Society’
The theme of the conference will be “Museums and Science Centres in Industrial Society”, and each day has a theme, that will be introduced by key-note speakers.
1) Technical museums and science centres in society today? How are museums and science centres influenced by society in terms of politics, economics and ideology? What are their functions in society in past present and future? How can sponsoring be developed and integrated into the museums? How can museums attract more and new kind of visitors? What is the future of museums and science centres in the era of communication?
2) Museums and science centres as informal learning sites There is a constant need for new learning places in society where children and adults can develop further knowledge – as life is one long process of learning. Museums and science centres are categorized as informal places of learning outside the classroom where the audience can meet scientists, do their own experiments. How do museums and science centres function as informal learning sites? What are the challenges and perspectives for the future?
3) Museums and environment Museums are often placed in old buildings and in environments with a specific cultural history. Museums often support and deal with plans for preserving old buildings and often the environment of the building is not taken into consideration when planning is done. At the conference buildings and their environments will be in focus. How can the cultural environments and landscapes be documented, selected and preserved along with the buildings?
4) Preserving and presenting Industrial Heritage The year 2007 was appointed the Year of Industrial Cultural Heritage. The conference will be an opportunity to present some of the many projects and events that took place in Denmark in 2007, and allow foreign speakers to present projects, and exhibitions dealing with industry. What are the challenges and possibilities of preserving and presenting industrial heritage at museums and science centres?

Contact: Jytte Thorndahl, Danish Museum of Electricity, Bjerringbro, Email : jt@elmus.dk
Hanne Teglhus, Steno Museum, Aarhus, Email : hanne.teglhus@si.au.dk
More information : http://cimuset.icom.museum

4 - 5 September 2008
Vaduz, Liechtenstein

Venue: Hofkellerei des Fürsten von Liechtenstein
Theme: Les musées et leurs architectes: les conditions d’une collaboration constructive

Contact: David Vuillaume, c/o Musée National Suisse, Case postale 6789, CH-8023 Zürich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 218 65 88 Fax +41 44 218 65 89
Email david.vuillaume@museums.ch
More information at : www.museums.ch

6 - 8 September 2008
Hannover, Hildesheim , Germany

Venue: Hanover, Kestner-Museum / Hildesheim, Roemer-Pelizaeus-Museum
Theme: Museums cooperation, modern media and museums and crossover exhibitions: Egypt and other cultures

Contact: Dr. Christian E. Loeben, Keeper, Egyptian Collection, Kestner-Museum, Trammplatz 3 D - 30159 Hannover / Germany
Tel. +49 511 -16842590 Fax: -16846530
Email: christian.loeben@hannover-stadt.de

Dr. Katja Lembke, Director, Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Am Steine 1-2 D - 31134 Hildesheim
Tel. +49 5121 -936911 Fax: -35283
Email: info@rpmuseum.de

14 - 21 September 2008
Changsha, China

Theme: Museums, Museology and Global Communication

Contact:rof. Nelly Decarolis, President ICOFOM, Rodriguez Peña 1427
C1021, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tel./fax 5411 4811 8020
Email. decarolis@fibertel.com.ar
More information at : http://icofom.icom.museum/events.htm

15 - 17 September 2008
Florence and Prato, Italy

Hosted by Associazione Case della memoria
Theme: ‘Literary and Composers´ Museums and Research.’
1. The relationships between museum and research, general ideas; 2. recent or current research done in museums, focusing on best practice examples; 3. cooperations / collaborations between ICLM museums and other institutions doing research such as universities, academies, etc. Our aim being to develop new cooperations in this field between ICLM members.

Contact: Jean-Paul Dekiss (ICLM, Secretary), La Maison de Jules Verne, 2, rue Charles Dubois F- 80000 Amiens, France
Email Dekiss@jules-verne.net
Fax: ++33 (0) 3 2245 3296

15 - 18 September 2008
Athens, Greece

Venue : Benaki Museum
Theme: The Digital Curation of Cultural Heritage
Digital curation emerged as an important new concept in the theory and management of cultural information. It covers all of the actions needed to maintain digitised and born-digital cultural objects and data, going beyond digital preservation to encompass their utilisation in the context of their entire life cycle, from acquisition and appraisal to exhibition, learning and commercial exploitation.
The focus of CIDOC 2008 on the digital curation of cultural heritage will allow curators, collection managers, documentalists,  archivists and museum information specialists to explore a broad range of theoretical, methodological, professional practice and technological issuers related to the appraisal, digitisation, management, representation, access and use of digital cultural assets, such as those increasingly becoming part of museum information systems and digital archives. A core emphasis of the meeting will be to understand and re-contextualise the know-how and history of established curatorial practice in museums, and memory institutions, in general, in the new field of digital cultural heritage; to review and discuss the applicability of standards- and good practice-related work in the context of managing digital cultural information; and to identify and explore the issues, methods and challenges involved with the development of new genres and contexts of virtual exhibition, e-learning and technology-enhanced services for scholarship and research.

Contact: Christian Emile Ore
Email: c.e.s.ore@muspro.uio.no
Ifigenia Dionissiadu, Head of Documentation, Information Technology Department, Benaki Museum 1, Koumbari Street , Athens 10674 , Greece
Tel +30 210 3671022 Fax. +30-210-3614355
Email. ifi@benaki.gr
More information : http://cidoc.icom.museum or www.cidoc2008.gr

16 - 20 September 2008
Manchester, United Kingdom

Theme: University Museums and the Community
Venue : The Whitworth Art Gallery
Hosted by: The Manchester Museum and the Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. With the University Museums Group UK
For much of their history, universities were elite learning environments, sheltered from the outside world by their ‘ivory towers’, and taking their model from the monastery. Since at least the 1960s, though, universities have been playing an increasingly important role in their local and regional communities. One of their early roles was to form extra-mural departments which offered courses to members of the public. More recently, universities have begun to recognize their cultural, economic and social role within their communities.
Universities are often major employers; some historic universities play a major role in the tourist economy; and some make a significant contribution through spin-off companies formed as a way of bringing commercial applications to university research.

In addition, one of the major ways in which universities make a contribution to their communities is through their cultural provision.
Many universities operate theatres, concert venues, parks, botanic gardens, and museums and galleries. Increasingly, university museums and galleries have become a vital link between universities and their communities. They are important sources of learning outside the classroom for schools and colleges, as well as places of informal learning for visitors of all kinds; they are vehicles for public engagement with academic research; and increasingly they are becoming places where the university can listen to the community and its views on the issues studied by academics.

The theme of UMAC's 8th International Conference therefore focuses on one of the most pressing issues today for university museums across the globe, which is how they can best act as two-way bridges between the world of the university and the many and varied communities, outside the university, within it in the form of students and staff using the museums in their leisure time, and the global ‘virtual’ community of the Internet.

UMAC members encompass museums of all academic disciplines; each of them will be affected by these transitions in a different way and each will choose a different approach and strategy to secure the museum's mission.

UMAC's Conference Board 2008 invites participants to report on how they
- each in their specific and therefore unique situation - respond to these challenges and to share experiences and best practices.

Contact: Estelle Idiens at The Manchester Museum on ++44 161 275 2649 or
Email : estelle.idiens@manchester.ac.uk
More information : http://www.meeting.co.uk/confercare/umac2008

21 - 24 September 2008
Bogotá, Colombia

Venue : Casa Museo Francisco de Paula Santander
Theme: Historic House Museums as a Bridge between Individual and Community
El tema de la Conferencia DEMHIST 2008 en Bogotá es: “Las Casas Museo como Puente entre el Individuo y la Comunidad”. Estamos trabajando activamente para que el evento sea la mejor carta de presentación de Bogotá y de América Latina en la medida en que ésta es la primera reunión que se celebrará en suelo americano. El que haya sido escogido por primera vez un país de Latinoamérica es de especial importancia para lograr que todas las casas museo de nuestro continente empiecen a formar parte de la Comisión Internacional de Casas Históricas y Casas Museo DEMHIST de ICOM-UNESCO, lo que les permitirá ser receptores de orientación, capacitación, documentos y todo lo que significa contar con el respaldo de esta importante organización.

Contact: Peter Keller
Email : secretarytreasurer@demhist.icom.museum
More information : http://demhist.icom.museum/

21 - 26 September 2008
Novi Sad and Kulpin, Serbia

CIMA XV
Theme: Agricultural Museums: A Rich Past, A Living Future
Venue: Agricultural Museum Kulpin and Museum of Vojvodina

Contact: Filip Forkapic, Secretary of CIMA XV, Poljoprivredni muzej, Trg Oslobodenja 7, Kulpin, Serbia
Tel +381 21 786 266
Email : jankisgeci@eunet.yu
Radoslav Vlk, General Secretary of AIMA, Valašské museum v prírode, Palackého 147, 756 61 Rožnov pod Radhoštem, Czech Republic
Email vlk@vmp.cz

22 - 26 September 2008
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Theme: Risk analysis and integrated risk management

Contact: Hanna Pennock, State Inspectorate for Cultural Heritage
Tel +31 (0)70 412 4036 Fax +31 (0)70 412 4014
Email : pennock@erfgoedinspectie.nl
Willem Hekman, Head of Security department, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, P.O.Box 74888, 1070 DN Amsterdam,
Tel. +31-20-6747164 Fax +31-20-6477001
Email w.hekman@rijksmuseum.nl
More information : http://icms.icom.museum