Spirituality in museums - evocative and comforting, or controversial and
exploitive? How do you and your institution honour your responsibilities
to stakeholders with diverse beliefs, values, and needs, while staying
true to your organizational goals, educational mandate, and professional
ethics? If sacred objects or spirituality are a part of your museum
context, then please join us on a journey towards professional
enlightenment.  

 

Join museum professionals from across North America in a unique
opportunity to consider the private and public roles that spirituality
plays in museums and cultural institutions and to explore the diverse
means that institutions use to share spiritual and secular messages
through collections, exhibitions, programs, and activities. 

 

This open-ended conversation, hosted by the University of Victoria's
Cultural Resource Management Program and facilitated by Elaine Heumann
Gurian, welcomes all with a view to share on the role that museums play
in sharing information of either a religious, secular, or scientific
nature. 

 

For more information please visit our website at
http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/courses/museums-spirituality.aspx
<http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/courses/museums-spirituality.aspx> 

 

Dates: September 15 - 17, 2005 
Location: Dunsmuir Lodge, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Accommodation: Dunsmuir Lodge <http://www.dunsmuirlodge.com> . Please
note other accommodation options are available in and around the City of
Victoria.

 

Facilitator: Elaine Heumann Gurian 

Elaine Heumann Gurian is a consultant/advisor to a number of museums and
visitor centers that are beginning, building or reinventing themselves.
Special guests Tom Hill and Mary Sue Sweeny Price join Elaine for the
workshop.


Tom Hill, curator, writer, art historian, volunteer, and artist, has
played an influential role in the development of Aboriginal visual arts.
He has curated several exhibitions, including Beyond History in 1989 for
the Vancouver Art Gallery and Masterworks of Native American Identity
and Belief for the National Museum of the American Indian in New York in
1994. 


Mary Sue Sweeney Price is the director and CEO of the Newark Museum, a
leader in museum education and community access based on extraordinary
collections reflecting world cultures, resulting in perhaps the most
diverse audience of any major American art museum.

 

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]

Visit our Web site! http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp
<http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp> 

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