CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
FALL 1996 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA
Accessible, Relevant Learning Opportunities for Museum and Heritage
Professionals
Communicating Through Exhibitions
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Exhibitions have tremendous power to shape the messages, perspectives
and values that museums communicate to their publics. This course
examines the changing role of exhibitions in the museum context, and
encourages you to learn to analyze and manage the key elements
involved in creating relevant, meaningful exhibitions. The importance
of team work and consultation is stressed. Topics include:
- the history, functions and purpose of exhibitions
- the role of the artifact
- frames of reference for communication
- issues of cultural diversity, perspective and voice
- the development of storylines
- methodologies for exhibition planning
- accessibility
- roles of the curator, educator, registrar, conservator, other staff
and community representatives
- project management
- funding and sponsorship
- temporary and traveling exhibitions
- ethical considerations
- visitor research and evaluation techniques
Instructor: John Coppola is a consultant and Former Director of the
Office of Exhibits Central with the Smithsonian Institution
Dates: September 18-27
Please register by: August 21
Fee: $589 Canadian, credit and non-credit options
Accommodation: Bed & breakfast facilitites available on campus for
$60 Canadian/night. Program staff can advise on off-campus
alternatives.
For more information, please contact:
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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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Fall 1996 / Spring 1997
Communicating Through Exhibitions - John Coppola, Sept. 18-27
Heritage Planning - Alastair Kerr, Oct. 21-25
Curatorship: Issues and Practices - Carol Mayer, Oct. 28-Nov. 6
Financial Management - Pauline Thompson, Nov. 13-22
Public Programming - Lynn Kurylo, Dec. 2-11
On Contract: A Workshop for Contractors, Consultants & Clients-
Jay Stewart, Oct. 9-11
Museum Research in the Information Age -Victoria Dickenson, Oct.16-18
Shaping Futures: Managing Change - Sharilyn Ingram, Nov. 27-29
Managing Archaeological Resources - Bjorn Simonsen, Feb. 5-14,'97
Curatorial Care of Artifacts - Mary Lou Florian, Feb. 19-28,'97
Museums in Historic Buildings - Thomas Taylor, Jr, Mar. 17-22,'97
at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia
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