REQUEST FOR INPUT

In response to the choice of intangible heritage as the theme for ICOM 04 in Seoul, many ICOM committees are looking at the subject more closely and examining the impact on their specific mandates and concerns. ICOFOM, for example, held their 2000 annual meeting on "Museology and the Intangible Heritage" and has published the results in their ICOFOM Study Series. ICOM-ASPAC has held a workshop on intangible heritage in Shanghai with the workshop description and resulting charter available at the ICOM website. 


ICTOP is undertaking a project to examine the implications of the inclusion of Intangible Heritage in the definition of museums on museum training and professional development, in particular, the Curricula Guidelines for Museum Professional Development

We are requesting the response of individuals, museums, ICOM committees or other museum organizations to the following questions in order to obtain a wide range of ideas and suggestions from the museum community. Results will be distributed through the ICOM channels.

Please add your comments to the email and return.

Questions:

1. What is your working definition of "intangible heritage"? What kinds of categories do you include in or exclude from intangible heritage?

2. How important is intangible heritage in your society or culture and how much effort is expended to preserve it?

3. What skills do you think museum workers (in the broadest sense of the ICOM definition) 

need to manage museum activities related to intangible heritage?

4. What knowledge is necessary to support work with intangible heritage?

5. In what ways are tangible heritage and intangible heritage linked together in museum work?


6. Are you aware of study courses in intangible heritage? What organization offers the courses and what areas of study do they include?

7. What other organizations that you know besides museums are broadly involved in intangible heritage and should be included in this survey?

If you would like to be more involved in the project please indicate.

Thank you for your comments



Emmanuel N. Arinze, Vice-Chair of ICTOP and Chair of this Working Group

Patrick Boylan, Chair of ICTOP

Lois Irvine, ICTOP Board Member and co-ordinator

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Lois Irvine
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De Winton, Alberta
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