UMTWS 2018
General introduction
The university museum landscape is going through considerable changes worldwide. New university museums are being created and old ones are being restructured and reorganized. Many universities are increasingly looking at museums, collections and heritage as important tools to implement their educational and cultural strategy, as well as meaningful windows between academia and society. For the University Museum Training Week Shanghai 2018(UMTWS 2018), UMAC-ICOM and the Qian Xuesen Library and Museum (QLM-SJTU) have prepared a broad program that goes deep into what it means to be a university museum today, through a combination of case-studies (Chinese and international), field visits, debates and a contemporary bibliography. Thanks to the sponsorship by China’s NEAUCM and SEAUCM, this training program intends to explore the following questions: What are the important issues to be considered in strategic planning, management and policies? What role can collections, exhibitions and educational programs play? What works and what doesn’t – for the museum, the university, and the community?
Goals and Prioritization: Strategic Planning in University Museums
Training will be conducted as a planning workshop where each participant will have developed a draft of a master plan for their own university museum at the end of the session. All participants are asked to bring copies of any existing documents (mission statement, governance structure, master plan, collection policy) in English and in language of origin.
Faculty:
Andrew Simpson (UMAC, Australia)
Barbara Rothermel (UMAC, USA)
David Ellis (University of Sydney, Australia)
Hugues Dreyssé (University of Strasbourg, France)
Kai Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Kate Arnold-Forster (University of Reading, UK)
Yong Duan (Shanghai University, China)
UMTWS 2018
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To discuss further the program please contact the program coordinator, Wenjia Qiu, qiuwenjia@sjtu.edu.cn.