The Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria is pleased to offer the following 3-day workshop course for professionals in museums, science, heritage and cultural centres, management planning and related organizations .
TIMELINESS: A consideration of the role of museums in current issues
As museums seek to be more broadly relevant to communities, our capacity to respond to contemporary events and issues in a "timely" manner raises fascinating, often challenging, questions:
* What pressures encourage museums to take on greater responsibility to respond to and reflect on contemporary issues? What are the benefits? What are the pitfalls?
* When is it appropriate to be "timely" in the museum context? Does this differ from one museum to another?
* What stresses accompany efforts to sustain timely responses to emergent issues?
* What can museums learn from the media and other groups that hold timeliness as a core value? How can they partner?
* How can/should organizational mission, structure, and skill sets change to support a mandate for contemporary responsibility?
* How does timeliness integrate with "relevance" and "civic engagement" in the museum lexicon?
* Are there museums that effectively include contemporary responsibility in their mandate?
This three-day workshop/retreat/think-tank/gathering provides an opportunity for senior museum managers to consider these timely questions in the context of their own institutions and communities. Join colleagues and resource people in a thought-provoking and memorable setting to analyze the issues, explore factors for success, and develop strategies to strengthen your museum's capacity to be timely.
Resource Person: Elaine Heumann Gurian
Elaine Heumann Gurian is a consultant/advisor/coach to museums that are beginning, building or reinventing themselves. She draws on a her varied experience as Deputy Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Deputy Director of Public Program Planning for the National Museum of the American Indian, and her extensive consulting experience with museum around the world, to focus on issues of timeliness and relevance in contemporary museums.
Dates: April 3-5, 2003
Please register by: March 7
Location: Dunsmuir Lodge, Victoria, British Columbia
Fee: $495 (Canadian funds, non-credit only; includes daily refreshment breaks and lunch)
Accommodation and most other meals: from late evening of Thursday, April 2 to Sunday morning, April 6: CDN$485 (Note that this fee can be adjusted according to your arrival and departure times; local participants can participate in evening meals by special arrangement.)
This workshop is co-sponsored by the Museum Group http://www.museumgroup.com
This course is open to all museum professionals. Enrolment options allow you to choose to take courses either for academic credit or to enhance professional development. Individual course descriptions and registration forms are available by contacting us at [log in to unmask] or by visiting our web site at <http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp> For more information please contact:
Lisa Mort-Putland, Program Coordinator
Cultural Resource Management Program
Continuing Studies, University of Victoria
PO Box 3030 STN CSC Victoria BC Canada V8W 3N6
Tel: 250 721-6119 Fax: 250 721-8774
Email: [log in to unmask]
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