International Museums Night and Day!!! 18th MAY 2008
This year, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) announces that more
than 10.000 museums are expected to participate all around the world
celebrating the theme “Museums: Agents of Social Change and Development”. In
the real world, hundreds of museums are offering free admission, special
guided tours, expo openings and many other special activities during the
week of the 18th of May. 3,429 events have already been announced in
European museums, more than 2,500 in Latin America and the Caribbean,
hundreds in North America, Africa and Asia. News on these events and
activities are available on http://icom.museum/2008_contents.html as the big
day approaches this Sunday.
For the first time, the virtual world will also be present thanks to a
global cooperation with the San José, California (USA) museum The Tech
Museum of Innovation, hosting the ICOM IMD event at “The Tech Virtual” on
Second Life. Museums all around the world are invited to participate online
in celebrations at The Tech Virtual where virtual scientific and technology
exhibits, cultural and community leaders along with museum curators and
artists will meet during 24 hours of virtual museum programming online.
Second Life is open to the public for free.
Alissandra Cummins, ICOM President, states: “The developing world has been
suffering from the digital divide: on International Museum Day, we want to
show how museums can help bridge that divide.”
She will give a welcome speech on Second Life at The Tech Virtual Museum at
6pm (Paris time).
Selected museums on all continents will serve as cybermuseums for online
connection so that staff and museum visitors can participate in ICOM’s
International Museum Day online through thematic discussion forums and
creative events.
Country by Country Activities Around the World:
http://icom.museum/imd2008_links.html
Press Kit: http://icom.museum/2008_contents.html
CONTACT: Carla Bonomi, ICOM : [log in to unmask]
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