2017年11月14日

University Museums Training Week- Shanghai (UMTWS) 

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Qian Xuesen Library & Museum of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (QLM-SJTU), in partnership with University Museums and Collections of International Council of Museums (UMAC-ICOM) runs an annual professional training program: University Museum Training Week-Shanghai, an initiative that is tailored to university museum professionals and researchers in China and beyond. With the support of China’s National University Museum Education Alliance (NUMEA), the program was first held in April 2017, bringing together international researchers and professionals, as well as 23 participants from different university museums all across China, to explore the most dynamic and pivotal relationship between a university museum and its parent institution. 

In the foreseeable future, the program will mostly tackle with problems and issues in the settings of China. UMTWS was created in response to a strong emergence of new university museums in China. The trend is a combined result of the urgency of preserving university culture and advocating university values, as well as the nation’s strategy of promoting cultural confidence and cultivating global talents who are also aware of their national identities. UMTWS addresses the need to develop a cadre of university museum builders and professionals who are capable of confidently and skilfully creating and managing university museums. 

UMTWS is supportive and developmental, but creates a space that is provocative and challenging - it intentionally disrupts how participants think, working on conceptual, organizational and methodological levels. The program enables participants to break old habits, create new ways of thinking and behaving, to develop skills suited to their own situations. 

UMTWS 2017 

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UMTWS 2018

Soon to come!

To discuss further the program please contact the program coordinator, Wenjia Qiu, qiuwenjia@sjtu.edu.cn.