Cultural Resource Management Program, University of Victoria
COMMUNITIES AND MUSEUMS: STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE, June 12-14, 1996
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The following is a draft outline for the upcoming session with Greg
Baeker at the University of Victoria. There is still space available -
please contact me for further information.
DESCRIPTION
Museums are experiencing profound shifts in their relationships with
communities as public funding diminishes and diverse community
interest groups seek greater involvement in the identification,
preservation and interpretation of their culture and heritage. This
workshop examines the complex factors reshaping the ways in which
communities and museums interact, and provides you with strategies
for building more meaningful, mutually beneficial relationships.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
a) To provide an opportunity for museum professionals to reflect on
their shared experience on the evolving relationship of communities
and museums.
b) To seed this dialogue with leading ideas drawn from the
international literature on museums and such relevant fields as
cultural planning and community development.
c) To build a set of "principles and best practices" that might
serve as a guide to navigating new community-museum relations.
d) To establish a network of individuals interested in ongoing
dialogue on these issues.
e) To approach the design and delivery of the workshop in ways that
explore new approaches to learning and continuing professional
education.
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DRAFT COURSE OUTLINE
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A core principal of the course design is a commitment to move from an
instructional paradigm (workshop leader as expert, downloading
knowledge to students) to a learning paradigm (workshop leader as
facilitator, collaboratively constructing knowledge with
participants).
DAY 1 - NEW FRAMEWORKS OF UNDERSTANDING
9:00 - 9:30 Welcome, course objectives, logistics - Greg Baeker
(GB)
9:30 - 10:30 Participant expectations for workshop
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee/juice break
10:45 - 11:30 Introduction to dialogue and reflection practices
used in organizational learning; participants will use these
techniques throughout the workshop- GB
11:30 - 12:00 Significance of how we conceptualize issues
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 2:30 Small group dialogue and reflection on select core
concepts: participants to be presented with differing understandings
of core museum concepts (ie. culture, community, education, public
interest, etc.); the purpose is not to reach agreement but to deepen
insight
2:30 - 2:45 Coffee/juice break
2:45 - 4:00 Small group dialogue (cont'd) - how do varying
understandings of these ideas affect museum practice? Each group to
summarize discussion and report back
4:00 - 5:00 Large group reflect on implications for practice and
new competencies
DAY 2 - NEW MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
9:00 - 12:00 A series of short presentations by guest speakers
(some of them participants) followed by opportunities for dialogue
and reflection
* Possible topics and speakers (to be confirmed):
- Organizational culture and leadership in Canadian museums - Lisa
Hunter
- Preparing for partnerships; integrating museum collaboration and
management theories - Judy Koke
- Competency frameworks for Canadian museums - Lois Irvine
- Organizational effectiveness in Canadian museums - Kerstie Krug
- Learning Across Organizational Boundaries - GB
- New Shared Governance Structures - Jeremy Morgan
- other possibilities and speakers
* Each speaker will be challenged to summarize and synthesize key
ideas in frameworks that can help participants locate their own
experience; this perspective assumes that learning is based on a
nesting and interacting of new frameworks of understanding
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 2:15 Small group dialogue and reflection on presentation
themes
1:45 - 3:00 Report back and large group reflection on
implications for practice
3:00 - 3:15 Coffee/juice break
3:15 - 4:00 Best practices - sharing of management success stories
4:00 - 5:00 Open space - invitation to participants to identify
issues they wish to discuss with others
DAY 3 - MUSEUMS AND COMMUNITY CULTURAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
9:00 - 12:00 A series of short presentations by guest speakers
(some of the participants) followed by opportunities for dialogue and
reflection
* Possible topics and speakers (to be confirmed):
- Leading international ideas in cultural planning - GB
- Cultural ecology as a planning framework - speaker tbd
- Mapping of community cultural resources - Amar Galla
- Exemplary Canadian experience -
Lon Dubinski (CMA Reading the Museum Project)
Lynette Harper (Research on partnership models)
Ken Doherty (Peterborough Centennial Museum)
Dinu Bumbaru (Heritage Montreal)
Jean Bruce (Family Treasures)
Sandi Morton-Weisman (Glenbow)
- other possibilities and speakers?
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 2:15 Small group dialogue and reflection on presentation
themes
1:45 - 3:00 Report back and large group reflection on
implications for practice
3:00 - 3:15 Coffee/juice break
3:15 - 4:00 Best practices - sharing of success stories
4:00 - 5:00 Open space - invitation to participants to identify
issues they wish to discuss with others
5:00 - 6:00 Workshop evaluation and follow-up - e.g., computer
conferencing practice" in museum.
INSTRUCTOR: Greg Baeker has a background in museums and public
policy. He was Executive Director of the Ontario Museums Association
and Executive Coordinator of the Ontario Heritage Policy Review for
the Government of Ontario. He is currently completing doctoral
studies in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Waterloo
focusing on museums and community cultural planning. He teaches in
the Cooperative Program in Arts Administration at the University of
Toronto, Scarborough College. With G. Leslie Oliver he is a partner
in the firm of Applied Cultural Principals (ACP): Cultural Learning
and Development.
For further information, please contact:
Brenda Weatherston, Program Coordinator
Cultural Resource Management Program
Division of Continuing Studies, University of Victoria
PO Box 3030, Victoria B.C. Canada V8W 3N6
Phone 604 721 6119 FAX 604 721 8774
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Web Site: http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/crmphome.htm
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