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22 January

• The Sukuma Museum Tanzania (Africa)
  The Sukuma Museum is a community based organization that promotes and celebrates the traditional and contemporary arts of the Sukuma culture. The Museum provides an interactive and educational environment where Sukuma elders teach younger generations traditional history and arts, and younger generations are encouraged to develop and expand creative voices and new Sukuma artistic trends. The Museum also welcomes visitors to workshops that provide training for those interested in learning the traditional arts of the Sukuma. The Museum is the only institution devoted to Sukuma culture and is the sole benefactor of objects from the ancient Sukuma chiefdoms and Dance societies.

• Exhibition: Forgotten Legends: The Story of Autshumato
  A new exhibition opened at the Nelson Mandela Gateway on 16 December that runs until 15 March 2009. Entitled Forgotten Legends: The Story of Autshumato it tells the story of Autshumato, a Khoekhoe leader known to the Dutch colonists of the mid-1600s as Harry. Entrance to the exhibition is free. This exhibition commemorates the role of Khoekhoe leader Autshumato during the 1600s, both before and during the Dutch settlement and his eventual imprisonment on Robben Island.

• National Museum of Mali
  The history of the National Museum of Mali can be traced Back to colonial times. It is closely linked to the history of the Institut Français d'Afrique Noire or IFAN (French Institute for Black Africa), created in Dakar in 1936 with a mandate for developing research in the colonized territories. The creation of a local branch of the IFAN in the French Sudan in 1951, gave rise to the foundation of the Museum, first called the Sudanese Museum of the IFAN. Built of stabilized "banco" and inaugurated in 1982, the present building housing the Museum is inspired by traditional architectural forms. The exhibition halls are on one side and on the administrative and technical services are on the other.

• The Museum Dierx Leon. La Réunion (France)
  Located in the Mascareignes archipelago, on the old highway of India, recently established, the Réunion Island has been a French department since 1948. The museum Leon Dierx was created in 1911 in the Saint-Denis, prefecture, in the north of the island, with regards to the School Ambroise Vollard, it was built in 1989 in Saint-Pierre, 100 kilometers south.

• The International Museum of the Golf of Guinea. Lomé (Togo)
  We invite you to visit our 300 to 400 authentic objects in all of our expositions composed out of our collection coming from different places of Black Africa. You will find fetishes, masks, statues, materials, jewels, seats ... All the objects have been part of the daily life of the people and you will be faszinated by the strength, imagination and the beauty of these artefacts of primitive art. We invite you to contact us by using the button above. We will come back to you. Meanwhile you are invited to visit the French or German pages of the site.

• Burkina Faso Cultural Heritage Branch (Burkina Faso)
  The National Museum of Music is located in Ouagadougou in a two-story building on Oubritenga Avenue on the south side of the Phillipe Zinda Kabore School. The building that once housed the Association for the Development of African Architecture and Urban Planning (ADAUA), was renovated to accommodate the museum. The building is in Sudanese Sahelian style with dome-shaped roofs.The museum is in the centre of the city and is easily accessible to the general public.

• Historical Museum of Abomey (Benin)
  The Abomey Historical Museum was created by the French colonial administration in 1943. With a surface of about 5 acres, it is situated on the palatial site and comprises the palaces of King Guézo and King Glèlè. The entire palatial site extends over approximately 108 acres and has been on UNESCO's World Heritage list since 1985. It is a culmination of history, living culture and tourism.

• The "Alexandre Sènou Adandé" Ethnographic Museum (MEASA) in Porto-Novo (Benin)
  MEASA is like many African and world museums in that it manages a space originally designed for other functions. The building that houses its collections was actually built around 1922 as a residence for the Principal of the Porto-Novo Central City School. It later became an orphanage. Subsequently, senior colonial officers were lodged in the building and for a period it also served as offices for the Ministry of Education. The colonial building was designed in an Afro-Brazilian style and was constructed on concrete pilings. Later, the spaces between the outside pilings were filled in and the style of the building became very classical with a ground floor and first floor. Today the ground floor is half-buried and is used as a temporary exhibition hall and storage.

16 January

• PDF Invitation to a meeting-discussion on the work Heritage and Globalization
  A meeting-discussion around the work Heritage and Universalization of the Group of investigation on museums and heritage (GRMP) - Mathilde Gautier, Anne Hertzog, Sophia Labadi, Frédéric Poulard, Fabrice Thuriot and Geneviève Vidal. Monday, February 2, 2008, from 18.00h to 19h30 in Bookstore TEKHNÊ, 7 rue des Carmes - 75005 Paris (France). Contact: M° Maubert-Mutualité Tel. 01 43 54 70 84.

13 January

• Western Australian Maritime Museum Shipwreck Galleries
  The Maritime Museum in Cliff Street, Fremantle, has been renamed the Western Australian Maritime Museum Shipwreck Galleries. The Shipwreck Galleries are recognised as the foremost maritime archaeology museum in the southern hemisphere. The displays in the restored convict-built Commissariat building feature early exploration and shipwrecks along the treacherous coastline as early as the 17th Century, including original timbers from the Dutch VOC ship the Batavia, wrecked in 1629. The Shipwreck Galleries will continue to play an important role in researching and conserving Western Australia’s maritime heritage as well as being part of the complex of attractions for visitors to the Fremantle waterfront precinct.

• The Mary Rose Museum
  The Mary Rose is the only 16th century warship on display anywhere in the world. Built between 1509 and 1511, she was one of the first ships able to fire a broadside, and was a firm favourite of King Henry VIII. After a long and successful career, she sank accidentally during an engagement with the French fleet in 1545. Her rediscovery and raising were seminal events in the history of nautical archaeology.

• The Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology
  The Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology in The Bodrum Castle of The Knights of St.John is not just a dusty collection of lifeless relics, it is an original, creative and exiting experience. It is a trip into a fascinating past through to life in exhibits that take you back in time into the worlds of ancient mariners who sailed to meet their destiny shipwrecked on Anatolian shores or to the medieval Age of Knights who built this castle from stones that once were part of one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient World: The Mausoleum of Halicarnasus.

• Underwater Cultural Heritage in Alexandria
  The seas surrounding the more than 2000 year old city of Alexandria have been witness to numerous important historical events. Alexander the Great, the Ptolemaic dynasty and Cleopatra VII as well as Napoleon and Nelson are famous names connected with this region. While the Bay of Alexandria still houses the remains of the famous Pharos, one of the seven wonders of the world, as well as the ruins of the Ptolemaic palace, the nearby Bay of Abukir saw the sinking of the ancient cities of Canopus and Herakleion into the ocean and, more recently, in Napoleonic times, it was the site of three naval battles which left numerous shipwrecks on the sea floor. The first indications of the existence of important underwater cultural heritage in the Western and Eastern Bays of Alexandria were found at the very beginning of the 20th century. It took however many years for real archaeological excavations to begin.

7 January

• Seminar: Museums and the Prevention of illegal Traffic of Cultural properties in Latin Caribbean
  Between December 10 and 12, 2008 took place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, this seminar jointly organized by the UNESCO Regional Office of Culture for Latin America and the Caribbean and the UNESCO Office in Port au Prince, with the Dominican Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM-DO) and the support of the Main directorate of Customs, the Dominican National Commission for UNESCO and other Dominican institutions, together with international participant and experts from Aruba, Cuba, Haiti and the host country. Contact: UNESCO La Habana: v.marin@unesco.org.cu

• Report on 2 Exhibitions - Current Archaeology Uk

  "Hadrian : Empire And Conflict?" At The British Museum

  "Skeletons: London's Buried Bones " At The Wellcome Gallery

• Climate change and museum collections: transcript of event
  A full transcript of the round table discussion Climate change and museum collections is now available for download here (PDF; 2.5MB). The discussion was the first event in IIC’s new initiative, Dialogues for the New Century: roundtable discussions on the conservation of cultural heritage in a changing world. It was held in London during the 2008 IIC London Congress and attracted a large audience of conservators and related professionals, including many delegates from the Congress.. A panel of four expert speakers explored the effects that global climate change is having on cultural heritage, and discussed how we can adapt to meet the coming challenges. You are invited to add comments on the round table event, the transcript or the Dialogues for a new century initiative below. Comments will be moderated before publication.

6 January

• ICOM Object ID Standard
  Object ID is an international standard for describing art, antiques and antiquities. The project has been developed through the collaboration of the museum community, police and customs agencies, the art trade, insurance industry, and valuers of art and antiques. It helps to combat art theft by encouraging use of the standard and by bringing together organisations around the world that can encourage its implementation.

• Ethnographic Museum in Brasov (Romania)
  The work for the creation of the Ethnographic Museum in Brasov (Romania) undertaken by GAIA-Heritage and CREATIME for the UNDP continued in 2008. The first phase consisting in putting forward the layout, the specifications of equipment, exhibitions and furniture drawings was completed and the documents delivered to UNDP.

Publications by Jean-Micehl Tobelem
Etudes, recherche, conseil, accompagnement. Option Culture, le partenaire de vos projets depuis 1990. Contact : option.culture@orange.fr

Dernières publications :

• Une gestion nouvelle des musées
• Mécénat : le modèle américain de financement de la culture est-il transposable à la France ?
• Des relations entre gratuité d’accès et services commerciaux dans les musées
• Les temples de l’art contemporain ne font pas tous recette
• Internationalisation des musées : effet de domination ou coopération culturelle ?
• La culture comme politique publique. Le cas des États-Unis d’Amérique
• La gratuité des musées et des monuments : tout a-t-il été dit ?
• Qui doit diriger les musées ?
• Développer l’attractivité d’une destination par la valorisation des sites religieux
• Le prix d’accès au musée : enjeux et perspectives
• Les mutations du management des sites culturels. Retour sur le concept d’« organisation culturelle de marché »
• Les musées à l’heure du marché

Interventions récentes : Nîmes, Reims, Namur, Dijon, Pau, Valence, Chartres, Palaiseau, Québec, Lyon, Montpellier, Paris, Montréal

Global museums in the twenty-first century: The Guggenheim foundation and the rhetoric of cultural planning in Vilnius by Skaidra Trilupaityte
The fact that a Guggenheim museum is being planned in Vilnius is indicative of the conviction that cultural "de-provincialization" can only be achieved by taking part in global projects. Skaidra Trilupaityte describes how Frank Gehry's "architectural miracle" in the former backwater of Bilbao marked the start of the Guggenheim Foundation's policy of expansion that today has cities around the world queuing up to pay the Guggenheim license fee. Meanwhile, writes Trilupaityte, city planners ignore that the cultural needs of the local population are quite different from those of business and the tourist industry. Vilnius is not Bilbao!...