ICOM-Sweden, The Swedish Museums Association and the Swedish Travelling Exhibitions invite you to take part in MUSEUM 2000 - Confirmation or Challenge? International Conference 10-13 JUNE, 2001 in Stockholm The words confirmation and challenge reflect two opposing tendencies in the museums' attitudes to the surrounding world: Is the museum mainly a chronicler or an actor? Does it serve as a temple or a meeting place? With the international conference MUSEUM 2000 - Confirmation or Challenge? ICOM Sweden, together with the Swedish Museums Association and Swedish Travelling Exhibitions (Riksutställningar), wishes to draw nourishment from the international debate about the future of museums, their renewal, and the necessary work of change that contemporary issues provoke in cultural institutions. The conference themes are: New times - separate worlds What happens to the museum's role in society when the surrounding world and patterns of culture change? How can museums work in societies where people are often characterized by rootlessness and cultural fragments inherited from different times and places? Do the museums take part in modern society's mechanisms for inclusion and exclusion? Artefact, memory, narrative Meanings of artefacts change; what was once a confirmation can through time become a challenge. Museums are places where questions about the cultural heritage, symbolic value, and time can be discussed, evaluated, and analysed. How can the exhibition medium be developed to capture people's attention? Museums and morals A number of moral issues are becoming increasingly burning - the stances adopted by institutions and individual museum workers alike, and loyalty towards the principals, users, and colleagues in research, collecting, care, communication. Does the construction of a cultural heritage apply only to what is considered good and exemplary, or should it also be able to include history's dangerous memories? MUSEUM 2000 offer a fantastic opportunity to meet colleagues from Sweden, the northern countries, Europe and from all over the world to discuss the important questions that museums are facing today and which are more or less current everywhere in different variants. The invited keynote-speakers are: George H Abungu - Director General of Museum of Kenya Kenneth Gorbey - Project Director of the Jewish Museum in Berlin David J Goa - Curator of Folklife at the Provincial Museum of Alberta, Canada Gaynor Kavanagh - Dean of Media and Culture vid Falmouth College of Arts i Cornwall, England and Robert Wilson, Theatrical Producer, artist and writer in New York If you want to attend the conference you please visit the website to get more information: http://museum2000.riksutstallningar.se or contact: [log in to unmask] Deadline for submission of paper/reflections is set to the 23rd of February. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Change ICOM-L subscription options, unsubscribe, and search the archives at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-l.html