UMTWS 2019
General Introduction
UMTWS (University Museums Training Week Shanghai) results from a partnership created in 2017 between ICOM-UMAC and the Qian Xuesen Library and Museum of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (QLM-SJTU) in China. UMTWS courses aim at promoting professional development among university museum professionals from China and Asia. The courses happen every year in April and last typically one week.
UMTWS alternates between BASIC and ADVANCED courses. UMTWS-Basic courses offer broad transversal training in university museum functions while UMTWS-Advanced courses aim at focusing on a particular museum function, discipline or theme of interest. Training methods are always diverse, encompassing theory and practice, case-studies, lectures, roundtables and workshops. Lecturers come from China and abroad.
In 2019, UMTWS will offer a basic course, covering the most important functions of university museums: Preservation, Research and Teaching, Communication and Management.
Faculty
Andrew Simpson, Macquarie University, Australia
Jill Hartz, University of Oregon, USA
Marta C. Lourenço, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Sébastien Soubiran, University of Strasbourg, France
Xiangguang Song, Peking University, China
Zhongmou Li, Shimao Group, China
UMTWS 2019 program (click here)
To discuss further the program please contact the program coordinator, Wenjia Qiu, qiuwenjia@sjtu.edu.cn.