Step away - for a brief period - from the distractions and demands of
day-to-day leadership to explore emerging dilemmas, opportunities, and
strategies related to complex workplace challenges. The Cultural
Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria offers
exciting learning opportunities for established professionals to engage
in stimulating, reflective and innovative thinking, insightful analysis,
and practical problem solving in a creative and collegial environment. 

Museums at the Heart of the City
Join established museum and cultural sector professionals, urban
planners, and those engaged in community development at an open-ended
conversation to enhance understanding of the importance of museums and
heritage in building cultural centres and contributing to the urban
lifestyles and economies.
Museums, as knowledge institutions, bring vitality to urban life through
their civic, creative, economic, architectural, and cultural presence in
a downtown core. Drawing on her extensive international experience in
museum transformations and referring to best practices from around the
world, workshop facilitator Gail Lord leads this exploration of
strategic ways in which museums and cultural institutions: 

o develop and sustain relationships in the creative city 
o reinforce a sense of place 
o act as change agents attracting investment, tourism, social
enterprise, and new audiences 
o become community venues for education, entertainment, congregation and
shelter 

Facilitator: Gail Lord, principal of Lord Cultural Resources Inc. is a
museum consultant who has worked to design and redesign some of the most
exciting and energetic museums in Canada and across the world. "It is
increasingly acknowledged that the museum has become an engine of urban
redesign. As a museum planner who has worked with hundreds of museums
worldwide, I can confirm that the growth in museums is staggering, and
that many are built with at least the partial purpose of contributing to
the redevelopment of a city or a particular area of a city." 

Dates: March 2 to 4, 2006 

Location: Dunsmuir Lodge, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

For workshop details, fees, and accommodation options please visit
http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/courses/museums-city.aspx 

For further information in this and other offerings from the Cultural
Resource Management Program, contact:

Lisa Mort-Putland, Program Coordinator 
Cultural Resource Management Programs 
Division of Continuing Studies, University of Victoria 
E-mail: [log in to unmask] 
Tel: (250) 721-6119 
For more information on upcoming courses please visit our web site
www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp 

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