”Rethinking Museums & Sustainable Development for the Global Profession” Calls for Participation

21 – 25 Oct 2014
Hanoi and Halong Bay

From ICOM-ICTOP:

ICTOP is holding its annual conference from Oct. 21-24, 2014, in Hanoi, Vietnam, and Ha Long Bay.

Patron: Minister Hoang Tuan Anh, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism

Co-Conveners: ICTOP, ICOM Vietnam and International Institute for the Inclusive Museum, Australia

Host: Dr. Nguyen Hung, Director General, Ministry of Culture

Topic: Our presentations and sessions will explore questions of appropriate museology, redefining and invigorating capacity building and regional engagement and hope to expand our committee’s work to be more inclusive of regional perspectives and to expand ICOM’s capacities. Through our meeting, we intend in engaging in a long-lasting dialogue and collaboration that will enhance not only the committee’s but the world-wide’s profession’s capacity to build an inclusive and representative body of thought and practice.

Applied Museology Workshops include:

1. Museums and Gender Mainstreaming
2. Planning for Growth – City Museums
3. Ecomuseology and Sustainable Development
4. Ethnology Museums in Southeast Asia
5. Interpreting Legacies
6. Art Museums and Aesthetics
7. Professional Development: Community and Global Capacity Building

Download the program (PDF) here and register to the conference here.