Brescia, November 28th, 2015
THE CALL FOR PAPER IS NOW CLOSED.
Feedback about abstract evaluation will be given by November 13th.
For any information, please contact: brescia2015@bresciamusei.com
According to the Agreement signed with the City of Brescia, on Saturday, November 28th 2015 an international meeting will be organised in Brescia in cooperation with Fondazione Brescia Musei, directed by Luigi Di Corato. The Presidents of International Committees are invited to the meeting and the ICs are invited to present papers on the ICOM Milano 2016 theme and museums’ best experiences. The results of the debate will be the basis of the “ICOM Declaration on Museums and Cultural Landscapes”. The most interesting experiences that are presented in the Conference will be part of the innovative museum projects that we are planning to present in Milan as international museums’ best practices. Another call for papers to appear in a future issue of Museum International dedicated to “Museums and Cultural Landscapes” will open at the end of July 2015; Museum International is the new ICOM’s academic journal.
Following the meeting in Brescia, the International Committees representatives and the Italian contact persons of the ICs will meet in Milano on Sunday, in order to define the finishing touches and updates of the ICs’ plans and needs for the Conference.
National Committees are welcome to join.
If interested, please contact: brescia2015@bresciamusei.com
CALL FOR PAPERS
You are invited to contribute to this event by sending in papers that present projects, experiences and reflection on the theme Museums and Cultural Landscapes.
Authors may refer to the Siena Chart.
Papers can present:
projects exploring landscapes that are:
– real, represented, intellectual, imaginary, utopic, virtual/digital
– natural, rural, urban, agricultural, industrial, touristic, human, social
– fossil, historical, contemporary, future
projects that:
– interpret, construct, diffuse, promote
– protect, safeguard, conserve, restore, recreate, regulate, transform, monitor landscapes that surround museums
projects that involve:
– the general public, residents, tourists and hikers, families, scholars, immigrants
projects that develop activities of:
– research and documentation: archives, bibliographies, field investigations, surveys and catalogues of cultural heritage, etc.
– increase of collections: thanks to acquisitions, donations, loans, deposits, emergency recoveries of tangible or intangible objects (in situ).
– conservation: custody, study, prevention, handling, monitoring of tangible or intangible heritage (in situ)
– permanent and temporary exhibitions of museum’s objects or openings of sites in situ
– communication: in museums or outside museums
– education, interculturality and outreach : within museums (guided tours, thematic itineraries of collections, workshops, conferences, etc.) or outside museums (itineraries, tours, trekking, etc.)
– events such as shows, conferences, publications, festivals, historical performances and reenactments, promotion of local products on the theme Museums and Cultural Landscapes.
Submission process:
Abstracts have to be written in English should and be submitted for selection to: brescia2015@bresciamusei.com
Text: maximum 300 words
Images: up to 3 images are allowed for a maximum total of 3MB
Contributions will be on a voluntary basis.
The submission deadline was 26 October, 2015.
Abstracts will be reviewed and authors contacted by the end of October 2015.
Accepted abstract will be published on the ICOM Milano 2016 website.
The following information should be included with the abstract:
• Title of submitted paper
• Name(s) of author(s)
• Professional background
• Keywords
Further information: for all queries on this Call for Papers and the submission process, please contact: brescia2015@bresciamusei.com
All proposals submitted will be assessed for suitability by the Organising Committee of the Brescia Conference and the Chair of ICOFOM.
Depending on their suitability, some papers may be selected for publication in ICOM’s journals.