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27 February

• Museums and the Prevention of the Illegal Traffic of Cultural properties in Latin Caribbean
  Organized by the UNESCO Office in Havana and UNESCO Port Prince, with the International Council of Museums, through the Dominican ICOM, the collaboration of the Main directorate of Customs and the support of the Secretary of State for Culture, both of the Dominican Republic, the sub-regional seminar “Museums and the prevention of Illegal Traffic of cultural property in Latin Caribbean " was held during December 11 and 12, 2008, in Santo Domingo, within the framework of the Dominican festivals December 10, “Day of the National heritage " in the Dominican Republic. Contact: Víctor Marin, Culture Oficial Program, UNESCO La Havana, v.marin@unesco.org.cu

13 February

• Exhibition: National Maritime Museum exhibition takes you with Darwin on Beagle
  From 20 to 21 March 2009. Australian Maritime Museum.
  A major exhibition coming to the Australian National Maritime Museum will take visitors on the sea voyage that inspired Charles Darwin’s great theory of evolution. The young scientist circumnavigated the globe on the HMS Beagle in the years 1831-36 and the exhibition brings the voyage to life… introducing his shipboard companions and revealing what they saw. Charles Darwin – Voyages and ideas that shook the world opens at the museum 20 March and remains on view until 23 August. It includes ships plans, charts and documents from the voyage, scientific instruments of the type used on the Beagle and portraits of some of the people on board.

• Opening of Pei Designed Islamic Museum in Qatar
  The Museum of the Islamic Arts, Qatar, is an imposing building set on an artificial building of Doha's Corniche. The building, which opened to the public in December 2008, showcases a selection of Islamic artefacts, many of which are both ancient and historically significant.

10 February

• Weald & Downland Museum - new programme of courses published
  The Weald & Downland Open Air Museum's long-established programme of courses in historic building conservation has now been updated for 2009. The Museum offers a stimulating and varied programme of dayschools and longer courses led by the very best researchers and craftsmen in their fields. The new programme includes several courses of particular interest to those concerned with vernacular architecture, and they are listed below.

6 February

• Exhibition: Charles the Bold , the splendor of Burgundy
  From 27 March to 21 July 2009. Groeninge Museum, Bruces (Belgium)
  The city where he married in July 1468 with Margaret of York and where his great-grandchild, Charles V, transported his remains in 1550, honor this last “great Duke of the West” that their contemporaries called Charles the Intrepid before time imposed the nickname of “Bold” whose pejorative connotation becomes echo of the defects generally given to the adversary of Louis XI. Son of Philippe and Isabel of Portugal, heir of the powerful dynastic principality that gathered Burgundy and the Netherlands, linked to a chivalrous tradition that “the autumn of the middle Age” described by Johann Huizinga condemned to obsolescence. Charles liked sumptuousness and the glory and showed a pride and a will of power which they were fatal for him, which Commynes understood well when he said of him that “half of the Earth could have not satisfied hum. ”

• Exhibition: Reconstructing Identity: A Statue of a God from Dresden. Getty Villa, USA - 18 December 2008 - June 2009
  This exhibition traces the modern history of a monumental Roman statue of a god, on loan from the Skulpturensammlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, that has been restored in various guises over the last three centuries. Newly conserved at the Getty Villa, the sculpture today is identified as Bacchus, the Roman god of wine. When found in Italy in the 1600s, the sculpture was missing its head, right arm, and parts of the feet and drapery. Over the next two centuries, the identity of the statue was reinterpreted, restored parts were removed and replaced, and the figure assumed a variety of titles, from Alexander the Great to Antinous in the guise of Bacchus. The exhibition explores these different phases of restoration and considers the roles that art collecting, archaeology, and aesthetics have played in reconstructing the statue's identity.

• Encontro Museus e Patrimônio Zonas de Sombras Silêncios e Esquecimentos
  A Casa da América Latina realizará o Encontro Museus e Patrimônio: zonas de sombras, silêncios e esquecimentos, no âmbito do Fórum Social Mundial2009, em Belém/PA de 29 de janeiro a 01 de fevereiro de 2009. Ressaltamoos que trata-se da continuidade do debate ocorrido no 1º Encontro Museus e Patrimônio na Construção de Outro Mundo Possível, realizado na UNIRIO em janeiro de 2008. A idéia inicial é pensar os museus e os patrimônios como processos capazes de contribuir para ruptura do modelo de dominação cultural cujos discursos regem a dinâmica dos países ocidentais. A partir da constatação que as práticas de preservação do Patrimônio ainda são fortemente marcados por ações estatais, que o fortalecimento dos movimentos sociais e as novas concepções de cultura não mudaram, efetivamente, o cenário do campo, pretende-se empreender um debate sobre novos temas e enfoques, visando discutir os museus e patrimônios como constituintes do processo de transformação social.