European Conference “Youth and Museums”- 2010, second edition
Romanian Federation of Associations, Centres and Clubs for UNESCO and UNESCO Romania Commission, in collaboration with the Government – Department for Interethnic Relations and the Ministry of Culture, organizes the 1-4 July 2010 Bucharest, conference rooms at the Hotel Ibis – Gara de Nord, the second edition of the European Conference “Youth Cultural Education in Museums”. The event belongs to the project “YOUth and MUSEums II”, Programme of UNESCO, entitled “Bridges between cultures”.
The approach aims at exchanging experience regarding strategy and educational methods among institutions participating in the project, in order to develop joint programs in museums and cultural institutions of the European.
The project will also contribute and strengthen an international network of experts in cultural education, based on mobility and intercultural dialogue. It encourages national and regional cultural heritage protection, including minority continent.
The new museum concepts allow public access to areas related to intangible heritage, regional identity, culturale sau spirituale. Museum today must be anchored in conditions that make immediate reality and its future projections. In the context mentioned, The main question that arises is about keeping alive the interest of young people to the museum as an institution.
Conference enjoys the participation of over 30 cultural education specialists and museum in Romania, France, United Kingdom, Republic of Moldova, Bulgaria, Russian Federation, Egypt, Holland, Mexico, Ukraine, Japan. The event will be attended by representatives of the debate centers and cultural institutions of national minorities in Romania and.
Organizers: Romanian Federation of Associations, Centres and Clubs for UNESCO, Romanian National Commission for UNESCO, Government of Romania – Departamentul pentru Relaţii Interetnice, Ministry of Culture.
Partners: Cotroceni Museum, Alumnus Club for UNESCO, Cultural Centre for UNESCO Nicolae Bălcescu, Elite Art Club UNESCO, Ella TraveLand, Hotel Ibis, Cultural Association Nomen Est Omen.
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The main theme of the conference is “Communicate & New Media in museum education”. This belongs to, unequivocally, technologies “democratic” communication. PCs, increasing performance, cheap and too small, Internet connection, penetrated virtually all life. Television, press, radio, telephony, cinema, music industry, entertainment and many other means of communication, known alternatives web.
We can talk about a new kind of consciousness, in the process of crystallization. The role of education is crucial in establishing fair relations between virtual and real as in the act of selection.
As proposed development on cultural heritage resources, virtual environment seems ideal for filing, Indexing, exposure or presentation, because circumventing artifact size “objects” they operate. Existence “electronics”, în eter, as pure mechanical reproduction, cancels material support, subject to the passing and becoming. Historical value and the old, seen as conditioning factors, disparate. On the other hand,, side communication amplified, cultural exchange and information.
Mutual knowledge is a prerequisite for keeping the local spirit, vital element in the process of globalization.
