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We are happy to announce the winner of the 2024 ICOM Canada International Achievement Award: Claude Faubert. Throughout his museum career, Claude has made lasting and meaningful contributions to advance many aspects of the museum field, particularly in science museums. During his career at Ingenium, Canada’s National Museum of Science and Innovation, his leadership at all levels in collections, research, education, and exhibition programming was shared with communities around the world. Claude’s efforts in creating partnerships and engaging with important organizations such as ICOM greatly benefited the museums in which he worked. Among the many examples of his international work and accomplishments, Claude was instrumental in the development of the ICOM International Training Centre (ICOM-ITC) established in 2013 in Beijing, China, that attracted museum practitioners worldwide. After more than 30 years of working in museums, Claude entered retirement with the same energy and willingness to make global connections, and to [...]

Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 Time: 2:00pm EST | 8:00pm Paris time Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcumgrTssHdM4SWLeZyaBHDueCa8xu2ko  What are the new and emerging ethical challenges that museums face that a Code of Ethics should address? The webinar will bring people up to date on the revision of the ICOM Code of Ethics — what has been accomplished and what the next steps are. We will talk about how the revision relates to the 2004 Code and how it relates to the museum definition. About the Speakers:  Sally Yerkovich is leading the revision of the ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums. She served on the ICOM Standing Committee on Ethics (ETHCOM) from 2011-2016 and was chair from 2016-2023. Dr. Yerkovich has been engaged with ethical issues in museums throughout her career. A cultural anthropologist with more than thirty years of leadership experience in museums and cultural institutions, she is currently Director of Educational [...]

Date: Wednesday, January 17, 2024 Time: 1:30pm EST  Recording Now Available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5L9P_oxT5M&t=2s  This webinar discussed the collaborative nature of the heritage field and how emerging professionals are being prepared to advance the practice and support communities. Learners, teachers, professionals, decision-makers, museums, and heritage organizations attended this webinar. Speaker Bio:  Dr. Inanloo Dailoo is the most recent winner of the ICOM Canada International Achievement Award for 2023.  Dr. Shabnam Inanloo Dailoo is Associate Professor and Director of Heritage Resources Management, and Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Athabasca University. She has two decades of national and international experience in heritage conservation theory and practice.  She holds a PhD in Environmental Design from the University of Calgary. She completed her post-doctoral research with the Canada Research Chair on Built Heritage at the Université de Montréal. Her current research examines the existing policies, guidelines, and [...]

We are happy to announce our International Achievement Award Winner - Dr. Shabnam Inanloo Dailoo who is the Associate Professor and Director of Heritage Resources Management, and Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Athabasca University.. She has two decades of national and international experience in heritage conservation theory and practice. Shabnam holds a PhD in Environmental Design from the University of Calgary. She completed her post-doctoral research with the Canada Research Chair on Built Heritage at the Université de Montréal. Her current research examines the existing policies, guidelines, and procedures in the conservation and management of World Heritage sites; heritage education in Canada; and heritage documentation and conservation and climate impact. Shabnam coordinated the 2022 ICCROM International Summer School on Teaching and Communication Skills in Conservation and Science. She is the Co-Chair of the National Roundtable on Heritage Education and the Canadian Chapter [...]

Date: Wednesday, May 17, 6:30 pm Price: $10 Regular, $9 Friends, $7.50 Students and Seniors. Museum admission free. Click here to reserve tickets. Join us for the next installment of Global Conversations — a series of hybrid panel discussions with arts and culture leaders from around the world addressing the big questions and challenging global issues of the day. Diaspora communities speak to belonging across multiple generations and locations, encompassing a range of experiences from forced migration to skilled immigration. In the last three decades, these communities have been represented by a range of museums. Marking International Museum Day, this panel discussion explores how museums engage diaspora and immigrant communities and represent their stories, speaking to local and global issues and networks. This conversation brings together leaders from diaspora and immigration museums across North America to address the aims, approaches, and concerns of these institutions and their constituencies in the 21st century. [...]

Date: March 8, 2023, 6:30 pm Price: $10 Regular, $9 Friends, $7.50 Students and Seniors. Click here to reserve tickets. Museum admission is free on Wednesday nights from 4–8 pm. Can't make it to the Museum? Watch live via Zoom. Click here to register. This International Women's Day, join Dr. Sarah Smith, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Art, Culture and Global Relations and Dr. Sascha Priewe, Director of Collections and Public Programs of the Aga Khan Museum, as they sit down with Dr. Ulrike Al-Khamis, CEO and Director of the Aga Khan Museum, Ngaire Blankenberg, Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, and Anne Elisabeth Thibault, Executive Director of Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal’s Archaeology and History Complex to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing cultural institutions at this moment. With significant changes in the world, from the impact of the global pandemic to ongoing conflicts and a call to respond better to local audiences, what does museum leadership [...]