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08/09/2021

Sogar zu Beginn der COVID-Pandemie war es einhellige Meinung, dass die Kirche zumindest für das Gebe einzelner Menschen offen bleiben sollten. Um einen Ort zu bieten, an dem seelische Kräfte „aufgetankt“ werden können. Kirchen sind und bleiben Orte des Dialoges – für ein Zwiegespräch mit sich selbst; für ein Zwiegespräch mit Gott.

08/09/2021

Kirchen nicht nur als historische Denkmale wahrgenommen werden, sondern als lebendige Orte des Glaubens: statt Denkmal – also denk mal…. denk mal an Gott!

Dr. Volker Jung, der Kirchenpräsident der EKHN, versteht Kirchen als Zeichen Ihrer Zeit. Gerade die gotischen Kirchen – wie die Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim – können als Stein gewordene Metaphysik angesehen werden. Diese aus Stein errichteten Gebäude sind zugleich auch gedanklichen Räume. Zugleich steht die Pracht der Katharinenkirche auch für ein neu gefundenes Selbstbewusstsein der ehemaligen Freien Reichsstadt Oppenheim und ihrer Bürgerinnen und Bürger.

Die Brücke zu schlagen, zwischen diesem historischen Gebäude, seinen spirituellen Wurzeln und unserer eigenen aktuellen Lebenswelt – darin liegt, gerade am Tag des Offenen Denkmals, ein ganz besonderer Reiz.

08/09/2021

„Glaubt Gott an uns?“ Das ist schon eine provokante Frage. Welche Antwort gibt uns Dr. Volker Jung, der Kirchenpräsident der EKHN darauf?

13/02/2021

DEADLINE for your participation: 28th February 2021


Surely you have noticed that the discussion about the museum definition goes into the next level. Here you can get some information about the whole process:
https://icom.museum/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ICOM-Define-Methodology.pdf

ONLINE - SURVEY
ICOM MPR is in close exchange with some NCs. Our aim is to join forces within the process. For that reason, we transformed the questionnaire of the survey that ICOM Germany, ICOM Switzerland and ICOM Austria have compiled into an online survey.
If you are a member of ICOM – it just talks three minutes to contribute...

please jump in: https://www.survio.com/survey/d/N8N3B7D7J3B1V2N3K

Deadline: 28th Febuary 2021

02/02/2021

Es ist Beuys Jahr 📆
Am 12. Mai 2021 wäre Joseph Beuys 100 Jahre alt geworden und so blicken auch wir in einer Sonderausstellung zurück auf den umstrittenen Künstler. Anhand von 25 Werken der Jahre 1945 bis 1985 verfolgt die Ausstellung Beuys‘ Auseinandersetzung mit Sprache – vom Schweigen bis zur stundenlangen Diskussion, von animalisch klingenden Lauten bis zu präzisen Begriffserörterungen und verrätselten Schriften. Wir freuen uns besonders nicht nur Werke aus der Sammlung der Nationalgalerie und der Sammlung Marx zeigen zu können, sondern auch aus den Beständen des Kupferstichkabinetts und der Kunstbibliothek.
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Joseph Beuys, 1980, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, Sammlung Marzona, Foto: Richard Schulze-Vorberg

20/09/2020

ICOM MPR

ICOM MPR

Here comes Interview No 6 of our ICOM MPR Challenge 2020 "Narratives - Long Story Short"

Our ICOM MPR chair, Matthias Henkel is talking to Andreas Görgen (D)

Dr Andreas Görgen is Director-General for Culture and Communication at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.

Andreas Görgen would have been the keynote speaker for our originally planned conference. We are very pleased that he was available for this interview. His remarks underscore the high political significance museums have in the global context.The interview deals with the beauty of diversity and the great challenge of developing a new strategy of collaboration and cooperation among cultural assets and museums in the field of cultural policy in a global context.

Link to Youtube: https://youtu.be/An54diLvieI

26/08/2020

ICOM MPR

Link to the video: https://youtu.be/Oe2raX1wH98

Our ICOM MPR Challenge 2020 7.5 Minutes Hotdesk on the Topic NARRATIVES - Long Story Short is coming to it's next step:

Our ICOM MPR board member Joy Chih-Ning Hsin is talking with Carol Scott (GB)

Carol Scott takes a birds-eye view of the concept of meta-narrative, Beginning with a definition of meta-narratives and a brief discussion of how they are constructed, she goes on to look at how museums' meta-narratives are affected by a combination of institutional purpose and their role as cultural agencies which reflect the dominant narratives of wider societies. Meta-narratives are, however, subject to challenge and Carol concludes by looking at the impact of recent changes to meta-narratives which are having profound impacts on museums.

GUEST: Carol Scott Carol Ann Scott is an international museum consultant who specialises in museum value. She has published widely in this area, most recently ‘Museums and Public Value: taking the pulse’ (2019) and ‘Museums, Branding and Values: harnessing the future’ (2020). A selected list of her publications can be found here. https://carolscottassociates.com/presentations-publications/

She has been a member of the ICOM Executive Board since 2016 where she has served on the Strategic Planning Standing Committee and the Covid-19 Working Group. A former Chair of both ICOM UK and Museums and Galleries Australia, she is now based in London UK and is Director of Carol Scott Associates. https://carolscottassociates.com

HOST: Chih-Ning Hsin
Joy Chih-Ning Hsin is currently the Chief of Education and Extension Division at the National Museum of History, Taiwan. She is also the board member of ICOM MPR and Chinese Association of Museums (CAM), and teaches postgraduate at several universities for Museum Studies. Joy is a co-author and the chief editor of Museum Branding: Redefining Museums for the 21st Century, selected papers from the ICOM MPR 2014 Conference which was published by CAM in 2015 and is accessible: here:
https://reurl.cc/Ez2X3K

16/08/2020

Interview Thomas Eser with Matthias Henkel

ICOM MPR Challenge 2020 Narrative - Long Story Short

06/07/2020

ICOM MPR

FIRST INTERVIEW OF THE ICOM MPR CHALLENGE 2020

NARRATIVES - Long Story Short

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Just listen to Gail Dexter Lord and our wonderful ICOM-MPR Board Member van ‘t Slot - talking about NARRATIVES - LONG STORY SHORT

Guest: Gail Dexter Lord

President and Co-founder of Lord Cultural Resources, the world’s foremost museum, gallery, and cultural planning firm. Based in Toronto with offices in New York, London, Mumbai and Beijing, Lord Cultural Resources has completed more than 2300 successful assignments in 57 countries and 450 cities.

Gail has worked with numerous cities including Chicago, Toronto, Ottawa, Vienna, Salford, Bilbao, and Johannesburg to develop their museum hubs and cultural spaces. She conducts courses in cultural leadership, strategic planning and the application of soft power by cities and museums.

An art critic, feature writer, frequent commentator, public speaker, and the co-author of six museum planning manuals and several books, her latest books are “Cities, Museums and Soft Power”, “The Manual of Strategic Planning for Cultural Organizations”, and “Museum Development in China/Understanding the Building Boom”.

Gail is a Member of the Order of Canada, an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Ministry of Culture, and holds an Honorary Doctor of Letters from McMaster University.

Host: Susan van ‘t Slot
Susan van ‘t Slot is Marketing and Communication manager for the Marines Museum, the toughest museum in Rotterdam - The Netherlands. With her team she is working on social, online and offline campaigns for the museum.

From 2008 till 2019 she was projectleader marketing & communication for the Reinwardt Academy and responsible for project with numerous national and international museums, educational institution and social agencies on subjects on museums and heritage.

Susan is technically and theoretically educated in online and offline marketing, she also has a BA in museology and history. On a personal note: She connects people and institutions, never thinks in problems but in solutions, an all-round marketer due to her experience in teaching, organizing and producing.

Susan van ‘t Slot is board member for ICOM MPR.

And you can find the whole project on our website: http://mpr.mini.icom.museum/conferences/7-5minuteshotdesk/

https://youtu.be/sT7bOfeQxbQ

27/06/2020

sharing = promoting

TO THE PRESIDENT, EXECUTIVE BOARD, AND GENERAL DIRECTOR OF ICOM

This letter is submitted 25 June 2020 by the ICOM Spokesperson of the ICOM International Committees
and has been created in collaboration with a group of current ICOM chairs in the ICOM International
Committee Working Group in the period 21 to 25 June 2020.

18/03/2020

Background-> https://embassy-of-culture.com/project/myopenairmuseum/

18/03/2020

MOAM - My OpenAir Museum

We live in turbulent - or, to be more precise - in strangely decelerated times.

- MY OPEN AIR MUSEUM - undertakes a digital-aesthetic approach to art, in times when physical distancing is actually required.

Backgroud-> https://embassy-of-culture.com/project/myopenairmuseum/

12/03/2020

ICOM MPR

.... so sad

NARRATIVES. LONG STORY SHORT...
Dear Colleagues, it was a hard decision to take. With a bleeding heart we have to cancel our conference for current reasons. At the moment, we cannot take responsibility for further preparing such an international conference.

In Kassel, we are facing strict entry restrictions or possibly a shutdown by order of the local health department and are very concerned about health risks for staff members and our visitors.

With the hope of your understanding. Take care of yourself & your families!

Yours
Matthias Henkel, Chair of ICOM MPR
Peter Stohler, Host of the conference

PS: We still ask you to save the date (September 21-26, 2020) - because we are currently evaluating the possibility of being able to deal with the topic using a digital format. This would also have the advantage of making an active contribution to environmental protection.

Please stay tuned.
And please follow us on TWITTER and FACEBOOK and have a look at your website.

23/01/2020

Now we head back across the Atlantic, traveling from Brazil to The Netherlands, where we meet Björn Stenvers, another Board Member!

"Hi, everybody! I am Björn Stenvers, an art historian and expert in museum marketing and management. Currently, I am CEO of the the Eye Care Foundation, I combine this role with many museum activities via the Manus Brinkman Fund (in honor of ICOM’s first Dutch Secretary General). Previously i was director of the ICOM's Endowment Fund (2017/ 2018) and director of the Amsterdam Museums Foundation (2013-2017). We also set up several Museum Academies for museum staff training in Amsterdam, Rostov, Aruba, Altai, Ekaterinburg and the Russian Zoo Academy.

I also worked as director of marketing at the Amsterdam Public Libraries (2003-2007), Amsterdam Heritage Museums (2008-2012), and did the Cultural Leadership International program of the British Council (2010-2011). For 2012 and 2013, I coordinated the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Canal Ring together with Amsterdam Marketing. From 2013, I set up and worked on the development of the Amsterdam Museums (Foundation).

I advise Ministries of Culture on working together for better returns and I lectured in Rome in the prestigious Universita Roma Tre Post-Doc program. In Moscow teach Museum Marketing, and I am the only foreign participant in the Presidential program for all Russian Ministers at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA/ MSSES).

I hold a number of board positions in Amsterdam: chair of the supervisory board of the People's University of Amsterdam and chair of the Diamond Museum Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Light Festival.

Globally, I am a member of the board of ICOM MPR, the Russian Art Museum and the Sarian Museum (Yerevan). I am also a trustee of the World Heritage Site of Brest Fortress (Belarus) and Honorary Trustee of the Altai Museums (Republic of Altai). I am official advisor of the Rostov Kremlin Museum, the Moscow Zoo, the Komi Republic and the Erasmus House (Jakarta)."

09/01/2020

soeben erschienen:

Leitfaden Provenienzforschung - Zur Identifizierung von Kulturgut, das während der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft verfolgungsbedingt entzogen wurde.

Herausgegeben von:
Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste
gemeinsa mit
Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V.
Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung und Restitution - Bibliotheken
Deutscher Bibliotheksverband e.V.
Deutscher Museumsbund e,.V.
Deutschland e.V.

Mitglieder der Arbeitsgruppe von Seiten ICOM:
Matthias Henkel
Michael Henker
Markus Walz

24/11/2019

ICOM Kyoto 2019 - Embassy of Culture

Building Connections vs. Building Collections? A Soliloquy on the Museum of the Future. ICOM General Conference, Kyoto, 3rd Sep. 2019

https://embassy-of-culture.com/project/icom-kyoto-2019/
Find a PDF with 3 little videos..



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Strategic communication always has something to do with concentration, focusing on the essentials. Please feel free on Twitter () in the future - and on Facebook Matthias Henkel

02/06/2019

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Strategic communication always has something to do with concentration, focusing on the essentials. Please feel free to follow us and our thoughts on Twitter () in the future - and on Facebook Matthias Henkel

30/05/2019

‪On my way to Moscow and my Thoughts on the topic „Circle of Friends - Museums in Dialogue“ ‬

04/11/2018

My upcoming presentation at E.V.A. Conference Berlin: "anatal & digilog. Das Analoge, das Digitale, das Materielle, das Immaterielle. Zu kulturellen Bedeutungsräume, digitalen Narrativen und dem Trinkgeschirr am Arbeitsplatz."

29/10/2018

20 Jahre (Tsp vom 28.10.18) von „Michael, Du bekommst die Millionen“ (Gerhard Schröder an Michael Naumann).... bis „Man muss die eigene Kultur kennen, um andere Kulturen zu verstehen.“ (Monika Grütters) .... vielleicht gilt sogar noch eher der Umkehrschluss: „Man sollte andere Kulturen kennen, um die eigene noch besser zu verstehen!“

21/10/2018

Just on the way to my next presentation: „At the End it is a questioning Quality. Audience Development 2.0 as a Management Tool for Museums.“ ... and I‘ll take my ONION OF with me.

Further information: https://www.bayerische-museumsakademie.de/de/veranstaltungen/detail/herbstakademie_2018.html

11/10/2018

ICOM MPR

Yes! We are now on TWITTER! Please follow ICOM MPR on Twitter:

10/10/2018

‪If you are on the board of the ICOMMPR you sometimes feel like you can fly ... ‬

07/10/2018

Word of Mouth (Vortrag ICOM MPR) - Embassy of Culture

My upcoming lecture at the ICOM MPR conference in October in Chicago: „Word-of-mouth. What does Bénédicte say about Alexander? A digital exhibit to talk about Alexander von Humboldt.“
https://embassy-of-culture.com/project/word-of-mouth-vortrag-icom-mpr/

My upcoming lecture at the ICOM MPR conference in October in Chicago: „Word-of-mouth. What does Bénédicte say about Alexander? A digital exhibit to talk about Alexander von Humboldt.“ https://www.facebook.com/ICOMMPR/

26/09/2018

It's almost here - please join us in Chicago.
I cannot wait to welcome many of you to my hometown - the beautiful city of Chicago! There is so much to see and do, and I truly look forward to hosting you.

We have an exciting conference planned, with dynamic keynotes and panel discussions as well as a strong representation of presentations from our ICOM marketing and public relations community. I truly value all of the wonderful colleagues that I have met at these MPR conferences, and hope that you will join us for a memorable week.

Sincerely,
Meghan Curran, Chair, ICOM MPR

Register today!

https://www.sheddaquarium.org/icom?utm_source=ICOM+MPR&utm_campaign=52a20bf139-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_21_04_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9274ace0b9-52a20bf139-194664061

24/09/2018

SYMPOSIUM: Künstler Komplex. Künstler-Bilder in der Fotografie. 4./5.10. 2018 ab 11.40 Uhr. Symposium zur Ausstellung „Künstler Komplex. Fotografische Porträts von Baselitz bis Warhol. Sammlung Platen“ Museum für Fotografie, SMB, Jebensstraße 2, 10623 Berlin

alle Infos: www.smb.museum/mf

14/09/2018

.... let's have a look at www.kosmos-humboldt.org

06/09/2018

Lesson from Brazil: Museums are not forever

It's a comforting falsehood that once an artifact joins a museum's collection, it's safe for eternity. Museums face many foes in the fight to preserve – a lack of funds might be the biggest.

04/09/2018

ICOM MPR 2018: Purchase Tickets | Shedd Aquarium

Our upcoming ICOM MPR conference in Chicago: Conference theme: "Communicating with Heart: Putting People at the Center." Registration is open now: https://www.sheddaquarium.org/icom?utm_source=ICOM+MPR&utm_campaign=7de69c0aa3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_31_07_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9274ace0b9-7de69c0aa3-194663993

ICOM MPR 2018 will take place October 8-11, 2018 in Chicago. Purchase your tickets by August 21 to secure the early-bird rate below!

03/09/2018

My upcoming speech: "In the end, it’s a question of quality | Audience development as a holistic concept for museum management" at:

THE ART OF ATTRACTION
AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT FOR MUSEUMS
https://www.bayerische-museumsakademie.de/de/veranstaltungen/detail/herbstakademie_2018.html …

ABSTRACT:
https://embassy-of-culture.com/project/a-question-of-quality/

03/09/2018

Brasiliens Nationalmuseum niedergebrannt

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/feuer-rio-101.html

“It is an unbearable catastrophe. It is 200 years of this country’s heritage,” Duarte told TV Globo. “It is 200 years of memory. It is 200 years of science. It is 200 years of culture, of education.”

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/museum-of-brazil-fire-1341812?utm_content=from_&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Global%20September%203&utm_term=artnet%20News%20Daily%20Newsletter%20USE

Ein Großbrand hat weite Teile des brasilianischen Nationalmuseums in Rio de Janeiro erfasst. Verletzte gibt es offenbar nicht, aber viele der 20 Millionen Exponate dürften zerstört sein.

30/08/2018

ICOM MPR

ICOM MPR

http://www.berlinbiennale.de/de/kalender/im-not-who-you-think-i-m-not-33-the-day-after-the-museum

28/08/2018

Noch alle Tassen im Schrank?.... Hier geht's zur Online-Umfrage über die Bedeutung der privaten Bürotasse... dauert nur 4 Minuten ... https://www.survio.com/survey/d/N2A1Q0F6B5R5D4T9S

03/08/2018

ICOM MPR

ICOM MPR

and the language of Culture ...

01/08/2018

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