Co-sponsored by ICOM Exhibitions and the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience and hosted by the Estonian National Museum, Momentum: Exhibitions and Memory will provide a space for big conversations, expansive questions, and new ideas. Each day will have a guiding theme and will start with a moderated conversation between two international keynote speakers, followed by concurrent sessions and workshops.

The Estonian National Museum is pleased to host an important international event in the field of museums in 2024 - the ICOM ICEE annual conference. The event brings together a few hundred European and global exhibition specialists from around the world over a twenty countries.

On May 3rd, Relevance, the 60th Annual Conference of the Estonian National Museum, will take place. The main topic of the conference is the impact and relevance of museums. In Europe, cultural heritage plays an important role in promoting active citizenship, shared values, cultural identity and well-being. How do museums address their audiences in the context of these expectations and how can the impact of their activities be assessed?

60th Annual Conference of the Estonian National Museum “Relevance” (5.-7.05.2020) CANCELLED 

60th Annual Conference of the Estonian National Museum “Relevance” 5.-7.05.2020 in Tartu is getting closer. All of us in the Conference team are looking forward to meeting you!

The registration form and details can be found at the conference website: http://enmconferences.ee/relevance-2020/registration. 

A good museum is one which I come out feeling better than when I went in (Kenneth Hudson) 

60th Annual Conference of the Estonian National Museum from 5.-7.05.2020 sets up sets up a discussion with this quote from Kenneth Hudson on the relevance of museums in the context of museum audiences, approaching museums as means of communication. A good museum is primarily one which provides good service to its visitors, interpreting widely the usefulness of a museum for the community. The number of excellent museums is increasing. Yet across the world, different studies indicate that the numbers of cultural and arts audiences are dropping, despite innovative approaches to cultural services and continuous professionalisation of cultural organisations. Are cultural institutions still relevant?

We are happy to announce that the NEMO 2019 conference registration is now open!

Find the conference programme and practical information online: www.europeanmuseumconference.org

Call for Papers: Museums 2030

With the call of papers we also announced our intention to publish the conference papers in a form of an edited book or special issue(s). If you are interested in contributing to the publication, please submit an outline (of max 1000 words) of your article stating its focus, key arguments and research basis by June 6.

You will be informed about a specified publication plan (publisher(s), timeline etc) within a month time. A preliminary deadline for submission of articles is beginning of January 2020. The contact and for the submissions use conference@erm.ee.

 

For the practical information in conference and in Tallinn (transport, restaurant suggestions etc.), check:http://enmconferences.ee/conference-memory-and-museums-2019/venue-1/practical-information and http://enmconferences.ee/conference-memory-and-museums-2019/venue-1.  

Conference programme and abstract book can be found in web here.

Conference early bird fee is prolonged until the end of the registration on 5.04. Registration at: http://enmconferences.ee/conference-memory-and-museums-2019/registration-1.

The information about conference hotels in Tallinn can be found here: http://enmconferences.ee/conference-memory-…/…/accommodation

See more and register: http://enmconferences.ee/conference-memory-a…/registration-1

The conference programme with the abstracts is available: http://enmconferences.ee/conference-memory-and-mu…/abstracts

We are very excited to present conference keynote speakers Prof Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Dr Silke Arnold-de Simine.

ICOM ICME 2018 conference will publish an edited volume based on a selection of the papers presented at the conference.

ICOM ICME conference bus drives every morning and evening from hotels to the conference venue and back. Please check: http://enmconferences.ee/venue/icme-bus. 

There has been a last minute change in ICOM ICME programme. The keynote of prof Wayne Modest „Spaces of Care: Rethinking the (Ethnographic) Museum in the Global“ will take place on Wednesday 10.10 and keynote by dr Pille Runnel „Searching for Cultural Participation in Museum Practice“ will be on Friday 12.10 morning at 9:30. More on programme.

We are happy to announce the conference study trips and post-conference tour programmes, please make your selection for 11.10 study trips from here and for Tallinn post-conference tour from here.

Conference travels are supported by European Union European Regional Development Fund and Enterprise Estonia.

Please check the link for PDF here http://enmconferences.ee/program

The new issue of ICME News is available. This edition is focused on the forthcoming ICME conference in Tartu, Estonia. Read about the rich and interesting conference programme, as well as about the amazing new Estonian National Museum where the conference will take place. Besides conference news, there is much more in the ICME News.

Programme can be found from here: http://enmconferences.ee/program

We are happy to announce that the ICOM ICME 2018 conference registration is now open!

ICOM ICME's 51st Annual Conference host Estonian National Museum was awarded the Kenneth Hudson Award at EMYA 2018 in recognition for having demonstrated the most unusual, daring and, perhaps, controversial achievement that challenges common perceptions of the role of museum in the society and carries forward the spirit of Kenneth Hudson.

Applications are invited for three (3) ICME Fellows, who must be individual members of ICME from developing nations or ICME youth members (under 35 years of age), to join the 2018 ICME conference and post-conference tour.

We are very excited to present conference keynote speakers and what a list of names!

ICOM ICME invites proposals for contributions to our 2018 annual conference, "Re-imagining the Museum in the Global Contemporary.” We invite you to join us in Estonia to reflect upon the complex context(s) in which museums exist today, and to creatively examine the range of new and future roles we might productively employ in our respective and interconnected institutions.