DEMHIST Meetings, 2-5 July 2001 - Barcelona From 2-5 July, 2001, DEMHIST, ICOM's international committee for historic houses, is organizing various sessions, a board meeting and general assembly, interesting outings to historic houses, and special dinners during the ICOM conference in Barcelona. Three themes characterize DEMHIST's sessions: --"New Forms of Management for Historic House Museums?" confronts the issues of if and how house museums need to create a new rapport (in terms of didactics, communication, and management) with the public in order to reach a broader consensus, --"Security, Old Buildings, New Buildings, and the Architects?" treats the delicate matter of how to intervene in historic structures and new historic house museums for the safety of the people and the collections (joint session confirmation of ICMS and ICAMT pending), --"Relationships Between Authentic Interiors and Assembled Objects" focuses on a strategic choice which is fundamental to historic house museums, that is, whether to preserve the house's furnishings and decorations as they were originally without substantial changes or additions, or, conversely, to recreate the furnishings and decorations with objects which were not part of the original house and its contents (in conjunction with ICDAD). If you would like to submit a paper for one of these sessions, by MAY 30, 2001, please send a brief curriculum vitae and an abstract (maximum one page) describing the focus and content of your paper. Please be sure to indicate how your paper is relevant to the theme of the session in which you would like your talk to appear. You may send your abstract to the DEMHIST secretariat at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum by fax (0039-02-7601.4859) or by email ([log in to unmask]) either embedded in the message, or as an attachment (in Word or .RTF, please). Proposals will be reviewed according to the following criteria: relevance to the symposium's themes, theoretical and practical elements, innovative and useful strategies for communicating the significance of historical house museums. Finally, the DEMHIST's conference in Genova, November 2000, dealt with "Spectacular Exhibits versus Philological Interpretation of History." The Acts of this conference, concerning the way in which historical house museums introduce themselves to their visitors, will be available shortly. For more information, contact [log in to unmask] Star Meyer [log in to unmask] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Change ICOM-L subscription options, unsubscribe, and search the archives at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-l.html