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28 May

• Museum of Carnival of the Americas
  The objective of the Project, submitted by the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is to create an online Carnival Museum that includes pictures, videos, music and interviews with Carnival Maestros to preserve the traditions of carnival in Latin America and the Caribbean. Each Country can also host a smaller version of the museum if they want using all the materials created for the museum.

• [italiano] Musei: inaugurazione lavori per la sede del Louvre di Abu Dhabi. Aprirà entro il 2013
  Inaugurati ieri i lavori della sede del Museo del Louvre ad Abu Dhabi. Erano presenti il presidente francese Nicolas Sarkozy e l’erede dell’emiro di Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Il nuovo museo sorgerà a Saadiyat Island che, oltre al museo, ospiterà anche diverse istituzioni culturali dell’Emirato; si estenderà su 24.000 metri quadrati e si prevede che aprirà i battenti entro il 2013. Contemporaneamente all’inzio dei lavori per il Louvre-Abu Dhabi, è stata inaugurata nell’Emirato una mostra di 29 dipinti prestati dal Museo parigino. La mostra - che è ospitata in un grande albergo di Abu Dhabi e resterà aperta fino al 2 luglio prossimo - contiene, tra le altre, opere di Edouard Manet, Paul Cezanne ed una di Piet Mondrian, a suo tempo acquisita dalla collezione personale dello stilista francese Yves Saint-Laurent.

• Virtual Museum of Latin America and the Caribbean
  A project promoted by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, its main objective is to facilitate mutual knowledge between Latin American and Caribbean, fostering at the same time integration and cooperation in the field of Museum studies, specifically for inventories and registers of heritage, thus sharing responsibility in the protection and safeguarding of the individual and collective cultural heritage. In this regard, the idea is to create a virtual network of museums in Latin America and the Caribbean; to promote international cooperation between museums; create the largest international exhibition of art and heritage property which would be a jeans for cultural integration and a common front against illicit trafficking of cultural property and works of art; and disseminate the heritage treasured in all the museums of the region providing equal opportunities for all, while promoting and respecting, at the same time, the cultural diversity of the region. The virtual platform is already available on–line. Currently three Member States are actively participating in the Project: the Republic of Cuba, Dominican Republic and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

25 May

• (in Italian) Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
  Il Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli costituisce una delle più importanti e straordinarie raccolte di opere dell’antichità al mondo. La fondazione del museo nel 1734 si deve a Carlo III per ospitare la collezione Farnese ereditata da sua madre e fu ampliata da reperti provenienti dagli scavi di Pompei, Ercolano e Stabiae e da altre collezioni minori nel corso del Settecento. Fu Ferdinando IV, il figlio di Carlo III, a riunire tutte le collezioni in una sola sede e a scegliere l’attuale sede, il monumentale Palazzo degli Studi di Napoli. L’audioguida del Museo Archeologico, realizzata dalla Pierreci in collaborazione con Antenna Audio, accompagna il visitatore attraverso l’intero percorso espositivo e non rivela solo la genesi di questa straordinaria raccolta ma analizza anche dettagliatamente una gran parte delle opere...

• The Museum of the Carnival (Uruguay) awarded with the Queen Sofia of Spain Prize
  Last Friday 24 April, Eduardo Rabelino, representing the Museum of Carnival, received from Queen Sofia of Spain the 6th International Queen Sofia Prize for Conservation and restoration of Cultural Heritage. The achievement of this important award is not only a great stimulus for the work of the museum in different areas, but essentially a recognition to the carnival as cultural heritage of Uruguay. The prize, awarded in a ceremony in the Palace of Viana in Madrid, is granted for the second time in the category Intangible Heritage. It was first awarded to the Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Costume (Guatemala). Regarding Material Heritage it has been granted since 2001, with winners such as the Temple of Santo Domingo de Guzmán (Mexico), the City of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), the historicl centre of the Pelourinho (Brazil), the Archaeological project Huaca de la Luna (Peru), the Office of the Historian of Havana (Cuba) and the Cultural Centre Mapocho Station (Chile).

• (in Italian) La misure anticrisi della Fondazione dei Musei Civici di Venezia
  I numeri parlano chiaro: nel 2008 i turisti che hanno visitato Venezia sono diminuiti del 9% rispetto all’anno precedente con un dato ancora più allarmante nella prospettiva museale, quello dei pernottamenti, diminuiti del 5,3% (dati APT Venezia). Questo significa che i visitatori di Venezia si adeguano alla tendenza nazionale delle città d’arte che mostra la diffusione sempre più ampia di una tipologia di turismo definito correntemente “mordi e fuggi”. I visitatori, infatti, tendono a permanere nelle varie località per periodi di tempo piuttosto brevi che non consentono di approfondire la conoscenza dei luoghi, privilegiando la visita superficiale di beni e monumenti che rientrano nei percorsi ormai standardizzati e sovraffollati del turismo di massa. I musei, in particolare soffrono di questa situazione che nel corso del 2008 è in netto peggioramento. Anche i Musei Civici di Venezia, secondi in Italia nel 2007 per numero di visitatori (oltre due milioni) hanno registrato nel primo trimestre del 2009 una diminuzione del 23,8% degli ingressi, un dato allarmante che sembra essere confermato per i prossimi mesi...

19 May

• Exhibition: Art of the Celts
  From 16 June to 18 October 2009. Historiches Museum Bern (Switzerland)
  The exhibition in the new extension of the Historisches Museum in Bern is showing an exquisite selection of some 450 Celtic art treasures from all over Europe in an area covering 1200 sq. m. Magnificent jewellery and richly decorated utilitarian objects made from bronze, iron, silver and gold, precious grave goods and cult objects with complex patterns or representations of fantastic beings testify to the masterly artistic creation achieved by the Celts. The exhibition offers the chance to see for the first time some recently discovered and spectacular new finds from France that have not yet been displayed to the public. As a particular highlight it is also showing for the first time outside Germany the treasure from the burial chamber of the famous Celtic chieftain at Hochdorf.

18 May

• Invitation for the International Day for Museums
  Each Year around the 18th May International Museum Day has been celebrated all over the world since 1977. Each year, a theme is decided on by the Advisory Committee. The event provides the opportunity for museum professionals to meet the public and alert them to the challenges that museums face if they are to be - as in the ICOM definition of museums - "an institution in the service of society and of its development". The chosen topic is also discussed in ICOM News, a review of the related activities is produced and made available to members of ICOM. It has been recommended that this celebration be held each year on 18 May (Given that each country has its own specific traditions and conditions, we recommend that members organise their events around 18 May), in the spirit of the motto: « Museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, co-operation and peace among peoples ».

15 May

• Center of interpretation of ALESIA: the works begin
  The Competition commission of the general Council chose March 17, 2009, almost all the companies that will carry out the construction and the stage of the Center of interpretation. Works begin this month of May 2009 with the demolition of the existing buildings in the place called Crystal of Baccarat, in the plain of Laumes. The works of leveling will begin in June. The Center of interpretation will welcome its first visitors, if nothing unexpected happens, in May 2011. The works will be administered according to an HQE (high environmental quality) approach.

13 May

• Museums at Night in Palais de la Porte Dorée: “Languages of France” Paris, France - 16 of May of 2009
  On the occasion of Museums at night, the Directorate of museums of France and the general Delegation of the French language joined to promote the languages of France. The national City of the history of immigration participates in this initiative. From 18.30 to 23.30, the Cité invites you to play with the words, discuss around languages and revisit the permanent exhibition Repères under a new angle.

• The National Capacity-Building Training for The Museum Specialists of The Republic of Moldova on Museum Management Based on UNESCO/ICOM Museum Studies Training Package took place in Chisinau
  From 11 May to 16 May 2009 the National Capacity-building Training in Museum Management based on UNESCO/ICOM Museum Studies Training Package for the Museum Specialists of the Republic of Moldova was conducted in Chisinau, the Republic of Moldova. The Training was organized and conducted with the support of the UNESCO Moscow Office within the frames of the Agreement signed between UNESCO and Intergovernmental Foundation for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Cooperation (IFESCCO) on cooperation in the field of museum development in the CIS countries. The National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History of the Republic of Moldova assumed the role of organizer of the Training, carrying out the activities in cooperation with the National Museum of Archeology and History and the National Art Museum under the auspices of the National Commission of the Republic of Moldova for UNESCO.

12 May

• Cuypers restaurations in the Rijksmuseum’s main building to be seen for the first time (The Netherlands)
  The Rijksmuseum will be opening the doors of the main building's Front Hall every weekend from 19 July to 31 August. Every Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 4 pm, the public will be able to admire the embellishments that have been restored in the Front Hall and the Gallery of Honour in recent years. In August, guided tours will also be given of the museum's library, where Cuypers' embellishments have also been restored.

• Exhibition - Henry VIII, 500 anniversary - In the castle of Windsor (United Kingdom)
  England prepares to celebrate, during one year, the fifth centenary of the advent of Henry VIII. The exhibition presented in the castle of Windsor, which was one of the royal residences and where the sovereign is buried next to Jane Seymour, will gather objects and historical manuscripts and several pictures by Holbein, as well as several drawings among which are the preliminary studies of the famous well-known of Thomas Moore. Henry VIII is considered at this side of the English Channel as a type of Blue Beard as opposed to François I the “gentle king”• and our “good king Henry” who, in fact, had two wives and forty lovers, but posterity has not been able to reproach him for having killed none of them…

• [italiano] Il Museo della Shoah a Villa Torlonia. Al via raccolta di documentazione per lo spazio espositivo multimediale
  Il museo della Shoah di Roma nascerà a Villa Torlonia. Il progetto del museo, la cui realizzazione è stata approvata a fine novembre scorso in consiglio comunale capitolino, è stato presentato ieri ufficialmente in un incontro a Villa Piccolomini a cui hanno partecipato il sindaco di Roma Gianni Alemanno, l’ex leader del Pd Walter Veltroni, il presidente della Provincia di Roma Nicola Zingaretti e il rabbino Capo di Roma Riccardo Di Segni, poresidnete della fondazione per il museo. Il museo ha già un numero, lo 06.99700929, al quale i cittadini si potranno rivolgere per avere informazioni, ma anche per segnalare di possedere documenti utili alla valorizzazione del patrimonio museale. Tanto più che, come ha annunciato Leone Paserman, presidente della fondazione Museo della Shoah, “È partita la raccolta di documenti per arricchire l´esposizione multimediale con lettere, fotografie, diari, memorie”...

• Louvre Museum: 1 minute in the museum - the Arts of the Islam
  Aimed at 6-12 year old children, the cartoon series One minute in the museum is a challenge to address them on this topic in an entertaining way. Based on the reactions of children in front of artworks within the framework of animations and workshops of the museum three characters were born. Nabi, a naughty boy, approaches artworks through experimentation, Mona, a clever girl, represents good sense and Raphaël, a preadolescent eager for knowledge, plays the scientist.

• [italiano] Musei: a Bruxelles uno dedicato interamente a Renè Magritte. Inaugurazione il prossimo 2 giugno
  Il prossimo 2 giugno a Bruxelles, città d’adozione di Renè Magritte, sarà inaugurato un museo dedicato al grande maestro surrealista. L’intero patrimonio (inclusi i grandi capolavori, provienenti dai lascito Scutenaire-Hamour, dal lascito di Georgette Magritte e da acquisizioni del Royal Museum of fine Arts) è stato riunito nel corso degli ultimi anni dalla Fondazione Magritte con il contributo di collezionisti privati che hanno trasferito nel nuovo museo un cospicuo numero di rari lavori. L’architetto–scenografo Winston Spriet è stato selezionato dagli sponsor per il progetto d’allestimento, basato su soluzioni tecnologiche innovative che esaltano ciascun periodo della vita dell’artista. Il celebre Cielo di Magritte con le sue nuvole, magicamente riprodotto sulla facciata del Museo darà il benvenuto ai visitatori...

• Museo Madre. Naples (Italy)
  [italiano] Dal 4 maggio il Museo Madre di Napoli è on line. Non perché prima non avesse un sito web - peraltro ben strutturato e completo a livello informativo-, ma perché attraverso il web è ora possibile accedere nelle sue sale direttamente dalla poltrona di casa propria, in un tour virtuale con annessa guida personalizzata. Ri-apre con un nuova veste grafica e arricchito nei contenuti e nei servizi il sito web del primo museo per l’arte contemporanea situato nel centro storico di una città, Napoli; un museo che è solo una delle numerose iniziative nel settore dell’arte contemporanea che nella città partenopea si è intrapreso negli ultimi anni. Presentandolo al pubblico, il direttore Eduardo Cicelyn ha confermato la vocazione alla contemporaneità del capoluogo campano, sosntenedo con forza che il Madre sia un luogo da vivere (le iniziative come Madrenalina lo confermano) e che il sito web non sia solo uno spazio interattivo, ma anche luogo da percorrere, oltre che uno strumento di curiosità ma anche di ricerca e approfondimento.

• Night of Museums at Louvre (France): Clairs Obscurs
  (in French) Cette sélection de films pose la question de la représentation du noir et de l’éclairage qui est porté sur lui. Elle propose également une expérience unique, celle, dans la pénombre et le silence, d’une véritable intimité avec les oeuvres.
  Éclairer la nuit
  Fr., 2001, 26 min, coul., réal. : Pascale Bouhénic.
  Urnes étrusques de Volterra
  It., 1957, 12 min, coul., réal. : Carlo L. Ragghianti.
  Belle de nuit
  It., 1997, 28 min, coul., réal. : Luciano Emmer.
  La Déraison du Louvre
  Fr., 2005, 15 min, coul., réal. : Ange Leccia.

• (in French) Projection en Avant-Premiereau Louvre avec accompagnement musical oriental en direct: Films d'archives sur la découverte de la tombe de Toutânkhamon ; Le Tombeau des amants (Made For Love) de Paul Sloane - 17 mai 2009
  • Première partie
    Films d’archives du British Film Institute sur la découverte de la tombe de Toutânkhamon par Howard Carter en 1922.
    Le Monstre
    Fr., 1903, 2 min 29, n.b., muet,
    réal. : Georges Méliès, copie Lobster Films.
    Un prince égyptien pleure sa défunte fiancée.
  • Deuxième partie
    Projection en avant-première
    Le Tombeau des amants (Made For Love)
    E.-U., 1926, 65 min env, coul., avec Leatrice Joy et Edmund Burns, muet copie teintée de la Cinémathèque de Toulouse restaurée par les Archives du film du CNC (2009).
    Sur un chantier de fouilles, un drame scelle le destin d’un égyptologue et de sa compagne, interprétée par Leatrice Joy (Les Dix Commandements).

   

• The Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport - The Netherlands - Exhibition: Holland & Japan: 400 Years of Trade 11 January - 25 May 2009
  From 11 January to 25 May 2009, the Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport presents Holland & Japan: 400 Years of Trade, marking the four-hundredth anniversary of commercial ties between the Netherlands and Japan. The exhibition examines the privileged position Dutch traders enjoyed on the isolated island of Deshima and the artistic and cultural interchange that resulted from their commercial contacts. Among over 20 works presented in the show are lacquerware, porcelain, a screen and paintings from the Rijksmuseum collection. The centrepiece is a scroll painting of over 6 metres in length, depicting scenes of everyday life on Deshima.

4 May

• Coptic Museum. Cairo (Egypt)
  Morcos Smeika Pasha founded the Coptic Museum in 1910 AD to fulfill the needs of displaying monuments referred to that period in order to easily trace the history of Christianity in Egypt. The Museum was erected over a land that was willingly offered by the Christian Church under the presidency of Pope Kerolos V who died in 1927 AD and his successor Abba Yuanis XIXth in 1929 AD. The Museum is located in an area of great historical importance within the precinct of the Babylon Fort, one of the remaining monuments referred to the Roman period. Lying over 8000 square meters, buildings and garden included, the Museum has been renovated with the two annexes the ancient and modern aisles and opened for visits in 1984 AD. The objects displayed rise up to 16000 pieces approximately, arranged as possible in chronological order in 12 different sections. The display had been set according to scientific measures. The Coptic Museum, actually one of the Ministry of Culture dependencies, was run by the Coptic Patriarcate till 1931 AD. The average number of visitors range daily from 200 to 250 visitors of different nationalities.

• The Web portal of world-wide shows
  The Web portal of world-wide shows, held in collaboration with the City of Music, the Museum of Quai Branly and the Theater of the City and that values the audiovisual files of our institutions is accessible in its beta version (to be developed): www.spectaclesdumonde.fr This project is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Communication (national plan of digitalization).

• Indianapolis Museum of Art Announces Acquisition of Miller House and Garden - Columbus, INDIANA, USA
  One of the country’s most highly regarded examples of mid-century Modernist residences, the house was designed by Eero Saarinen, with interiors by Alexander Girard and landscape design by Daniel Urban Kiley. The Miller House and Garden, along with the IMA’s The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park and Oldfields–Lilly House & Gardens, will be used to teach visitors about the interconnectedness of art, design, and the natural environment...