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The Migration Museums Network starts a Newsletter
The International Migration Museums Network promotes the exchange of information and experiences on the culture of migrant populations and the history of migration by supporting the creation of museums on migration in both sending and receiving countries. The current 24 institutional members of the network provide information on their activities via a multilingual website at www.migrationmuseums.org
Migration Museums Network. Newsletter. Publicated: 11-6-2008

Exhibition: Kimono: Osaka's Golden Age
From 7 June 2008 to 14 September 2008. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Discover breathtakingly beautiful kimono and accessories from the glory days of Japan. This extraordinary exhibition, highlighting the wealth and prosperity of the Edo and Meiji periods (1850-1900), is showing exclusively at the Immigration Museum. Direct from the Osaka Museum of History, the stunning collection celebrates the Immigration Museum’s 10th birthday and 30 years of the Melbourne-Osaka sister-city relationship.
Migration Museums Network. Exhibitions. Publicated: 11-6-2008

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Temporary exhibition: Situlae, images of a missing world
From 26 April to 5 October 2008. Bibracte Museum. France
The Latin word situla is the ancestor of the French word bucket. Archaeologists have used it for a long time ago to designate metallic containers of wide opening that served to prepare drinks in banquets. For a period of two centuries, between 550 and 350 BC, bronze situles used by the aristocracy of the regions located between the Po, to the south, and the Danube, to the north, were sometimes decorated with life stills of the court: banquets, huntings, military parades…
Bibracte Museum. Temporary exhibition. Publicated: 9-6-2008

M.A. in Curating Contemporary Art. Call for Applications
The Leeds School of Contemporary Art & Graphic Design of the Leeds Metropolitan University, invites applications to its M.A. in Curating Contemporary Art, commencing in October 2008. The application deadline is 25 June 2008. The M.A. in Curating Contemporary Art is focused on the practical: between the making, performance, distribution, and curating of art in the contexts of its international markets. Students will be required to engage practically and critically by developing personal curatorial projects. This highly productive M.A. course will operate professionally and energetically across both the commercial and institutional fields of distribution of art's expanding markets...
Culturelink Network. News. Publicated: 3-6-2008

Argentina launched Guide of Museums as part of the celebrations for the International Museums Day
It collects information on more than 500 cultural institutions in the country. As part of the celebrations for the International Museum Day on Sunday 18 May, was launched the Guide of Museums prepared by the Secretariat of Culture of the Nation in Argentina. The Guide collects information on more than 500 cultural institutions in the country. The presentation was made at the National Museum of Decorative Arts and was attended by the Secretary of Culture of the Nation, His Excellency José Nun; the Secretary of Tourism of the Nation, His Excellency Enrique Meyer, and the National Director of Heritage and Museums Ms. María de las Nieves Arias Incollá. The Guide of more than 300 pages collects information on some 500 public and private museums in the country, organized by provinces. For this occasion 2.000 copies were printed, which will be distributed in museums, schools and universities...
LACULT. News. Publicated: 3-6-2008