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Carbon Literacy Program at Manchester Museum
This article was released in the ICOM Canada April 2020 e-newsletter on Sustainable Development. See more articles from this issue here. Lynsey Jones (Museum Development North West (UK)) Museum Development North West (MDNW) is based in Manchester and funded by Arts Council England (ACE) to support 150 Accredited museums in North West England. MDNW has always had a Green Museums strand in its programme, believing that sustainability is about the triple bottom line of environmental, economic and social justice. In 2016 we started working with the Carbon Literacy Project. This originated as part of Manchester City Council’s strategy to create a zero-carbon city by 2038. The original aim was to give every person who works, lives or studies in Manchester (approximately one million people) a day’s worth of Carbon Literacy training but the climate emergency has vastly expanded the remit of the project. MDNW has been taking the lead on [...]
COVID-19 Resources for Canadian Museums
The Canadian museum sector has been significantly impacted by the global rise of novel coronavirus and the resulting COVID-19 pandemic. Most Canadian museums are now closed and located in communities where increasingly serious social/physical distancing and isolation/quarantine measures are required. In these uncertain times, ICOM, the Canadian Museums Association, and the provincial and territorial museums associations are sharing valuable resources and communications in response to COVID-19. ICOM Canada has compiled links to those associations' resource pages where available, which can be accessed below. If you have resources you want to share or wish to let ICOM Canada know about how your museum is responding to this challenge, please email us at icomcanada@gmail.com. Le secteur canadien des musées a été considérablement touché par l'essor mondial du nouveau coronavirus et la pandémie de COVID-19 qui en résulte. La plupart des musées canadiens sont maintenant fermés et situés dans des collectivités où des [...]
Notice of ICOM Canada 2020 AGM
Due to the ongoing impact of the global novel coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic, the ICOM Canada Annual General Meeting will be held virtually. The meeting was originally scheduled for Wednesday, April 15, 2020 in Montreal as part of the Canadian Museums Association annual conference. The 2020 Annual General Meeting will now take place at 6:00 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time) on Tuesday, July 7, 2020. The meeting will take place using the Zoom conferencing platform. The 2020 AGM is open to all current members in good standing. Please register using the link below and when your membership is confirmed you will receive the meeting link by email. Registration is now closed If you wish to become a member please visit this page, and if you have questions about your membership, please email icomcanada@gmail.com. AGM Documents: AGM 2020 Announcement Letter ICOM Canada AGM 2020 Agenda ICOM Canada AGM 2019 Minutes 2020 Annual [...]
ICOFOM Annual Symposium Call for Papers – Montreal-Ottawa 2020
ICOM Canada is pleased to share the Call for Papers for the 43rd Annual ICOFOM Symposium. The Symposium was scheduled to be held in Montreal and Ottawa from September 28 - October 2, 2020, however this has been postponed. The call for papers (below) will continue with an extended date of May 31. The conference will now take place March 15-21, 2021. The theme for the Symposium is "The decolonization of museology: museums, mixing and myths of origin." Please click here for the full ICOFOM Symposium Call for Papers document. Proposals must be submitted by May 31, 2020 (the call for submissions was extended from the original March 31 deadline). The proposals will have to integrate one of the proposed axes of analysis. They should follow the formatting rules of ICOFOM and be written in one of the three languages of ICOM (English, French, Spanish). ICOFOM is the ICOM International [...]
City Museums: Reflections on a Missing Definition
ICOM Canada wishes to share with our members an article on City Museums by Francesca Lanz, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano. The article reflects on city museum concepts and definitions that might be useful in an operative way. The article was originally published in the September 2019 CAMOC Museums of Cities Review and is available here (English only). Please learn more by visiting network.icom.museum/camoc.
ICOM Canada Travel Bursary Report
Sophie Yamauchi From September 1-7, 2019, nearly 5,000 museum professionals, scholars, and cultural advocates gathered in Kyoto, Japan, for ICOM’s 25th General Conference. Because of ICOM-Canada’s Travel Bursary for Emerging Museum Professionals, Queen’s graduate-student, Sophie Yamauchi (Vancouver), was able to join her international colleagues in Kyoto to partake in fascinating conversations and gain insight into the governance of ICOM and its deep and meaningful roots world-wide. As an ICOM-newcomer and aspiring museum-polymath, Sophie took the opportunity to attend a variety of sessions offered by many different international committees. She was particularly interested in ICME (ethnographic museums) sessions, which were rich with case studies of collaboration with Indigenous people and revealed the interesting international similarities that museums face within their own communities. An advocate for the politicization and decolonization of museums, Sophie believes that museums can and should play an active role in engaging and shaping impactful and relevant discourse; and be accessible to all members of the [...]