A Cross-roads for People and Ideas
- Presenting and Interpreting a city in the Museum and Beyond

ICMAH Annual Meeting
Thessaloniki, Greece, 16 - 21 September 1997

The Annual Meeting of the International Committee of Museums and
Collections of Archaeology and History* will take place in Thessaloniki,
Cultural Capital of Europe for 1997.

This conference will look into how cities and their archaeological,
historical and contemporary urban context can be best interpreted and
presented, not only in the museum, but also beyond the museum world.

The main topic will be diveded into three themes:
* presenting and interpreting the archaeological, historical and
contemporary urban context of a city
* cities as a cross-roads of people and ideas.  Developing culturally
diverse audiences in the museum, promoting multivocality - especially
new ideas, new policies, oral history, partnership and outreach
* site museums, reconstitution, regional planning, research, heritage
conservation, living history museums

There will be a one day visit to the sites of Pella, Verginia and
Edessa, and a half-day visit to the city and museums of Thessaloniki.

Costs ... the conference fee is USD140 (students USD70).  This includes
conference pack, one meal a day.  There is a limited budget for
bursaries for colleagues from Eastern European and Third World
countries.

If you would like to contribute a 15 minute paper, a 300 word abstract
must be sent to Maria Mouliou ([log in to unmask]) by 30th June 1997.
The languages of the conference are Greek, English and French.
Abstracts and papers themselves may be in any of these.

There is a range of conference hotels, with prices from USD50 for single
rooms, USD60 for double rooms (per night, including breakfast).

There will be a post-conference tour to Dion, Kalabaka, Meteora and
Velos.

*ICMAH is a committee if ICOM - the international council of museums.
(My note - 'committee' doesn't here have it's normal English meaning -
something more like 'group' or 'professional council'). ICOM is ...
well, visit the ICOM homepage and find out for yourself.  If you've not
got www access, let me know, and I'll send you stuff.

ICMAH plans to soon open its web page: links will be available from the
ICOM homepage (http://www.icom.org/) and the Hellenic Ministry of
Culture (http://www.culture.gr/2/21/215/21503/congr97_en.html).

For further information, about ICOM, ICMAH, or this conference, you can
contact me (Pat Reynolds, ICMAH board member) or Maria Mouliou, Hellenic
Ministry of Culture: [log in to unmask]
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Pat Reynolds
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Keeper of Social History, Buckinghamshire County Museum
   "It might look a bit messy now, but just you come back in 500 years time"
   (T. Prattchet)