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

 

Dates: September 15 - 17, 2005
Location: Dunsmuir Lodge, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Accommodation: Dunsmuir Lodge. 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

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