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  • 03.06.-04.06.2013

From the 19th to the 21st Century

Privatisation and the status of museums in civil society

Workshop in cooperation with the Austrian Museum Association Registration is required! The privatisation of the Universal Museum Joanneum in 2003 was probably the museum’s biggest organisational change in its 200-year history. We would like to take the occasion of the...  frontend readmore

From the 19th to the 21st Century
  • 13.06.-14.06.2013

Understanding, revealing, discovering

Research in museums

Workshop in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research   Registration is required! In 2008, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research (bmwf) started the forMuse – Research in Museums programme and thus, for the first time, created a...  frontend readmore

Understanding, revealing, discovering
  • 27.06.-29.06.2013

Land of mountains and museums

Switzerland

Excursion Registration is required! Thanks to Switzerland’s cantonal structure, there is a great museum every couple of kilometres. We would love to visit them all, but since this isn’t possible on a three-day trip, we have selected a number of interesting museums covering...  frontend readmore

Land of mountains and museums
  • 22.07.-26.07.2013

The history of displaying in museums

Via the example of the museums of Berlin

Workshop  in cooperation with the Institute for Art in Conetxt of the Berlin University of the Arts Registration is required! The history of the museum is a history of displaying, arranging, and assembling objects and design elements in space for the purpose of mediation....  frontend readmore

The history of displaying in museums
  • 18.10.2013

Museums of history

Images and responsibilities of provincial and regional (cultural) history museums

Conference in cooperation with the vorarlberg museum   Registration is required! Despite repeated attempts over the last 100 years as well as a now 10-year debate, Austria still does not have a national museum of Austrian history. Additionally, only a limited number of provincial...  frontend readmore

Museums of history
  • 28.11.2013

Museum policy

On the strategic development of regional museums

Round table in cooperation with the Association of Upper Austrian Museums   Registration is required! A large part of the museums in the German-speaking world are regional and local museums. Many countries in Europe have strategy papers and plans for the best possible future...  frontend readmore

Museum policy
  • 05.12.-06.12.2013

Nature museums: what’s the point?

On the social role of an institution

Conference in cooperation with the Natural History Museum of the Universal Museum Joanneum   Registration is required! Nature museums have always been underrepresented in museological debates. And yet, the bulk of museum objects worldwide are natural objects and the traditional...  frontend readmore

Nature museums: what’s the point?