ICOM 24th General Conference
Museums and Cultural Landscapes
July 4, 2016, 10h00
Milan
Abstract
“Museums and Urban Cultural Landscapes” Cultural landscapes and urban landscapes are quickly changing, moving on to different conceptual frameworks. The aim of this joint session of ICOFOM, CAMOC and MINOM is to bring together experts in city museums, urban museum issues, new social challenges, and international museology trends, reflecting on how cultural urban landscapes affect the museum meaning and its relationship with the present societies.
The session will be based on the General Conference’s theme, the Siena Charter, and the ICOM/ UNESCO draft recommendation for museums, focusing on contemporary social and cultural urban issues that city museums must be prepared to face and to manage.
Siena Charter: http://icom.museum/news/news/article/siena-charter-proposed-by-icom-italy-at-its-international-conference-museums-and-cultural-landsc/
Unesco recommendation: http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CLT/images/en_CL_4101.pdf
The “sense of place” is one of the key concepts of the Siena Charter, which highlights the blur boundaries between tangible and intangible heritage. Rapid, and sometimes irreversible changes in urban landscapes all over the world demands from museums a constant attention to cultural, social and geographical movements that affects peoples’ lives and their relationship with space, time and memory. If this is true for any type of museums, it is especially relevant for city museums, as cities are the ever-growing centres of human life, with all its consequences still to be fully acknowledged.
Programme
04 july 14:00 – 18:00
14:00 - 14:15 – Opening Speeches
Keynote Speakers
14:15 – 14:35 – CAMOC keynote speaker
14:40 – 15:00 – ICOFOM speaker
15:05 – 15: 25 – MINOM speaker
Debate / Q&A
15:45 – 16:15 – coffee-break
Short Presentations
16:15 – 16:30 – ICOFOM presentation
16:30 – 16:45 – CAMOC presentation
16:45 – 17:00 – MINOM presentation
Debate Session
17:15 – 18: 00 – Final debate session with 4 to 6 speakers designated by CAMOC, ICOFOM and MINOM and a moderator