Cultural Engineering Group

The policy analysis group, “Museums and Municipalities” will hold its final conference in Brussels on December 9-10, 2010. This international conference aims to present and discuss with museum managers and curators, local authorities, researchers and experts the results of one year of activity focused on the analysis of the relations between museums and municipalities, the benefits derived from this relationship; the existing partnerships between museums and local municipalities; the mechanisms required to make these relations more efficient (among others: objectives, indicators, institutional relationships).

This event is one of the outcomes of the “European Policy Grouping “Museums and Municipalities” [the core group is made of the University Paris I Sorbonne, the Louvre Museum, the Manchester Museum (The University of Manchester), the municipality of Split and ENCATC], who, throughout 2010 has been organising meetings, research studies and an important enquiry, with more than 200 museums and 50 municipalities having been so far consulted.

The Conference has also the ambition to identify concrete proposals and best practices as well as to collect as many contributions as possible for the White paper on “Museums and Local Authorities” to be published by the policy group at the beginning of next year. Having this in mind, it will be organised as an interactive dialogue which will bring together 100 representatives from museums and local authorities in Europe and beyond. Four plenary sessions will be successively organised: Why the relations between museums and municipalities should be analysed; The challenge from the museums’ perspective; The challenge from the municipalities’ perspective; What can be the most relevant relations between museums and municipalities. Each session will begin with the results of the enquiry and case studies, and will open the discussion with museum managers and curators, local authorities and the audience participants. This approach aims to give each participant the opportunity to contribute to the final recommendations. The participants will be introduced to additional input on the issues under discussion provided by experts.

ENCATC
Brussels, Belgium
09 December 2010 to 10 December 2010

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