2 avril

• Tout connaître de l'art asiatique sans bouger de sa chaise
  Il n'est pas toujours simple de se déplacer avec sa classe sur les différentes expositions intéressantes. C'est là qu'entre en jeu une pratique des musées de plus en plus courante qui consiste à mettre en ligne les ressources nécessaires non seulement pour être en capacité de constituer de véritable cours d'art pour ses élèves mais aussi parfois pour tester leurs connaissances de façon plus ludique et interactive qu'un simple test écrit. En ce qui concerne l'art asiatique, deux musées semblent se démarquer des autres, de part leur avancée dans cette logique d'expositions virtuelles : le Musée Guimet, musée national des arts asiatiques, et la Bibliothèque Nationale de France, situés tous deux à Paris.
  Plus information : http://www.cursus.edu/?module=document&uid=71259

• [english] OMA wins competition for the Beaux Arts Museum in Quebec expansion
  OMA has been announced as the winner of the international competition for the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) expansion. The CAD$90 million project was also consulted with local residents, with an 82% of approval. A series of stacked boxes remind the programatic relations of Seattle’s Library, while generating an interesting grand hall facing the street with urban qualities.
  Plus information en anglais : http://www.archdaily.com/54850/oma-wins-competition-for-the-new-beaux-arts-museum-in-quebec/

• [english] Kuro Maku / Abre Etteh - Honorable Mention for the Fashion Museum Competition. Tokyo (Japan)
  Architect Abre Etteh shared with us this proposal that received an Honorable Mention for the Fashion Museum Competition in Omotesando Street in Tokyo, Japan. The challenge consisted in designing a 100 meters high tower-museum, containing exhibition areas of 20th century fashion history and becoming a landmark for Tokyo.
  Plus information en anglais : http://www.archdaily.com/54772/kuro-maku-abre-etteh/

• [english] National Museum of Qatar / Jean Nouvel (State of Qatar)
  Jean Nouvel’s new National Museum of Qatar utilizes technology to create a thoroughly new institution. Entire walls become cinematic displays and hand-held mobile devices guide visitors through the thematic displays of the collections. Located on a 1.5 million-square-foot site at the south end of Doha’s Corniche, it will be the first monument travelers arriving from the airport will set their eyes upon. Conceived as growing out of the ground, the building uses rings of low-lying, interlocking pavilions, to encircle a large courtyard area and encompass 430,000 square feet of indoor space. Tilting, interpenetrating disks define the pavilions’ floors, walls and roofs, and the exterior in a sand-colored concrete. Nouvel likens it to a “bladelike petal of the desert rose, a mineral formation of crystallized sand found in the briny layer just beneath the desert’s surface.”
  Plus information en anglais : http://www.archdaily.com/54737/national-museum-of-qatar-jean-nouvel/

1 avril

• (en italien) Se il vero problema dei musei romani non riguarda solo i servizi…di Martha Friel (Italia)
  Pur mediamente meno costosi e più accessibili di quelli delle altre capitali europee, i musei romani faticano a fare i numeri che ci si aspetterebbe per luoghi tanto preziosi. A dirlo è un’indagine Adoc che, oltre a segnalare il trend negativo di visitatori imputa, almeno in parte, il risultato non proprio soddisfacente alla scarsa propensione dei musei della Capitale a offrire al pubblico servizi accessori adeguati alla visita.
  Certo negli istituti romani, come nella gran parte d’Italia, nursery, percorsi per bambini e servizi per le famiglie sono ancora poco diffusi o prerogativa particolare dei musei scientifici, come più volte evidenziato anche dai Dossier Musei del Touring. Ma siamo proprio sicuri che sia tutta qui la causa del male dei musei italiani? Difficile dirlo in un anno come il 2009 in cui il turismo ha dato segni di sofferenza e in cui le abitudini stesse dei viaggiatori sembrano essersi consolidate a favore di soggiorni più brevi.
  Plus information : http://www.tafter.it/2010/03/25/se-il-vero-problema-dei-musei-romani-non-riguarda-solo-i-servizi-di-martha-friel/

• (en italien) Biblioteche a rischio di estinzione (Italia)
  La lettura dei libri, in Italia, rimane ancora un’esperienza profondamente minoritaria, rappresentata da un 56,5% della popolazione nel 2009, in leggera flessione rispetto al 59,4% del 2007 (dati del rapporto sui consumi mediatici di Censis, novembre 2009). Inoltre, sempre dalla stessa ricerca, emerge una forte espansione dell’utilizzo dei mezzi digitali, della moltiplicazione e integrazione dei media a scapito del tempo sottratto alla lettura dei libri.
  Questi dati basterebbero da soli per stimolare una drastica inversione di tendenza, in grado di rilanciare il ruolo delle biblioteche come vere e proprie “piazze del sapere”, punti di partenza per ripensare gli spazi urbani e porsi come risorse per lo sviluppo del territorio, fornendo una serie di servizi trasversali che valorizzano la componente innovativa di queste strutture pubbliche.
  In realtà, le biblioteche pubbliche, come gli archivi di Stato, soffrono, da troppo tempo, di carenza di fondi e di personale, denunciando situazioni troppo spesso insostenibili, che palesano casi di fragilità strutturale anche in quelle strutture dotate di autonomia, come la Nazionale di Firenze e il Centro per il Libro.
  Plus information : http://www.tafter.it/2010/03/23/biblioteche-a-rischio-di-estinzione/

• (en italien) Google books e la promozione della cultura italiana di Francesca Traclò
  google-bookGoogle books sbarca in Italia attraverso un accordo con Il Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, che gli consente di digitalizzare oltre un milione di volumi non coperti da copyright. I testi sono oggi conservati nelle biblioteche nazionali di Roma e Firenze, e risalgono a diverse epoche storiche: da Petrarca a Leopardi, da Galileo Galilei a Gianbattista Vico. I libri in formato elettronico saranno accessibili attraverso Google books on line, che già possiede un patrimonio di circa 12 milioni di volumi, di cui due scaricabili gratuitamente.
  L’operazione servirà senza dubbio a promuovere la cultura italiana all’estero presso quel vasto pubblico di appassionati e studiosi della lingua italiana, ma ciò che appare più interessante è il potenziale impatto sul pubblico italiano.
  Plus information : http://www.tafter.it/2010/03/11/google-books-e-la-promozione-della-cultura-italiana-di-francesca-traclo/

• (en italien) Blocco dei finanziamenti MiBAC in Lombardia di Michele Trimarchi (Italia)
  Il Ministero chiude. Come nei film di Totò. Nei prossimi mesi i visitatori di Brera e del Cenacolo vinciano rischiano di trovare chiuse tutte le strutture della Soprintendenza regionale lombarda, per gli effetti di un vecchissimo contenzioso in base al quale il MiBAC dovrebbe pagare 114 milioni di euro a causa di una questione che risale al 1974. Complicato parlare di responsabilità, che pure sicuramente ci sono anche alla luce dell’assenza del Ministero dall’ultima udienza presso il Tribunale di Milano.
  Plus information : http://www.tafter.it/2010/03/23/blocco-dei-finanziamenti-mibac-in-lombardia/

• [english] Vertical Omotesando / Wai Think Tank. Tokyo (Japan)
  Wai Think Tank have shared with us their proposal for the Fashion Museum Competition in Omotesando Street in Tokyo, Japan. The challenge consisted in designing a 100 meters high tower-museum, containing exhibition areas of 20th century fashion history and becoming a landmark for Tokyo.
  Plus information en anglais : http://www.archdaily.com/54335/vertical-omotesando-wai-think-tank/

30 mars

• (en anglais) AD Round Up: Museums Part III - From Portugal, Germany, Canada, UK and Sweden
  Here’s our third selection of previously featured museum on AD.
  • Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum / Aires Mateus
    Aires Mateus is an office that has been working on minimal projects, blending the new with the old in a subtle way. More fresh portuguese architecture, thanks to photographer Joao Morgado for sharing this with us!
  • Muritzeum / Wingardh
    Visitor centre for the region “Mecklenburgische Seenplatte”. A unique central point in Waren in between Müritz, the older town centre and the surrounding countryside. Müritzeum includes a freshwater aquarium, multimedia exhibits, restaurant and a shop. The building extends out like a peninsular in Herrensee and personifies elements essentially different from one another as solid ground and water
  • Gardiner Museum Renewal / KPMB Architects
    The Gardiner Museum is one of the world’s pre-eminent institutions devoted to ceramic art, and the only museum of its kind in Canada. It is also one of the major projects in Toronto’s cultural renaissance. The Gardiner renewal, together with the Royal Ontario Museum across the street and the Royal Conservatory of Music around the corner on Bloor Street West, will form a new cultural precinct for the city
  • Garden Museum / Dow Jones Architects
    It appeared to us that creating a dedicated place for the museum’s permanent collection was equally important, as the exhibits were frequently moved to make space for events. We developed a strategy which addressed both issues. Our idea was to create a belvedere within the existing building. This houses the new galleries and provides a raised ground from which a new perspective of the existing building is attained
  • Kalmar Museum of Art / Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter
    The new Kalmar Museum of Art is the result of a winning proposal in the open international competition in 2004 and will be inaugurated in 2007. Situated in the City Park of the renaissance town of Kalmar, it will be added to a restaurant pavilion dating from the 1930s by Swedish modernist architect Sven-Ivar Lind

  Plus information en anglais : http://www.archdaily.com/54148/ad-round-up-museums-part-iii/

26 mars

• (en anglais) Effective Museum Management: Sharing Lessons Learnt
  “The management concept and structure of the National Museum for Science and Technology “Leonardo da Vinci” is so interesting to know” said Luan Malltezi, Director of the National History Museum in Tirana, Albania at the end of the two-day training workshop “Best Practices in Museum Management: Communicating and Educating the Public”, recently organized in Milan, Italy, from 11-12 March 2010 by the UNESCO Office in Venice and the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci in Milan, Italy.
  Plus information en anglais : http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=47523&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

25 mars

• [english] The MA: Andalucia’s Museum of Memory / Alberto Campo Baeza. Granada, Andalucía (Spain)
  We would like to make “the most beautiful building” for the Museo de al Memoria de Andalucía (Andalusia’s Museum of Memory) in Granada. The MA. A museum that wishes to transmit the entire history of Andalusia. As early as Roman times, Strabo described the inhabitants of Andalusia as “the most cultivated of the Iberians, who have laws in verse.” Our project for the MA is a building in line with the Central Headquarters of the CAJA GRANADA Savings Bank that we finished in 2001. We propose a podium building measuring 60×120 m and rising three stories, so that its upper floor coincides with the podium of the main CAJA GRANADA building. And its façade as well. Everything is arranged around a central courtyard, in elliptical form in which circular ramps rise, connecting the three levels and creating a very interesting spatial tension. The dimensions of the elliptical courtyard have been taken from the courtyard of the Palace of Charles the V in the Alhambra. And to crown it all, as if it were a Gate to the City, a strong vertical piece emerges, the same height and width as the main building of the CAJA GRANADA. It thus appears before the highway that circles Granada as a screen-façade that sends messages over the large plasma screens that will cover it entirely. Like Piccadilly Circus in London or Times Square in New York. And to finish the entire operation, a large horizontal platform all the way to the River, the MA open FIELD that will serve as a public space in that new area of the city of Granada. The new building, silent in its forms, is resounding in its elements to communicate the messages of the new millennium in which we are already immersed.
  Plus information en anglais : http://www.archdaily.com/53701/the-ma-andalucias-museum-of-memory-alberto-campo-baeza/

23 mars

• Première inscription de Macao au registre de la Mémoire du monde Asie-Pacifique (Mémoire du monde Asie-Pacifique)
  Le 9 mars 2010, les Archives du diocèse de Macao (1550-1800) sont venues enrichir le registre de la Mémoire du monde de la région Asie-Pacifique. Cette première inscription de la région administrative spéciale de Macao (Chine) s’est jointe à sept autres nouvelles inscriptions proposées par la Chine, le Viet Nam, la Mongolie, la Nouvelle-Zélande, les Fidji et les Philippines.
  Plus information : http://portal.unesco.org/ci/fr/ev.php-URL_ID=29638&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

• Ateliers du Musée du Louvre - Scénographie et musée
  8-9 avril, 10-12 mai, 7-9 juin 2010. Paris, France
  Cet atelier propose une initiation aux principes de scénographie muséographique : mise en scène des collections permanentes du musée du Louvre, dans un dialogue entre des objets anciens présentés selon un concept contemporain.
  Plus information : http://www.louvre.fr/llv/activite/liste_evenements.jsp?nature=activite_nature_2

22 mars

• Exposition - Paris, ville rayonnante. Architecture et sculpture des églises parisiennes au XIIIe siècle
  10 février - 24 mai 2010. Musee Moyenage, Paris (France)
  Paris, devenue la capitale royale, connaît au XIIIe siècle un essor démographique sans précédent, qui entraîne une multiplication des chantiers de construction civils et religieux. Les bouleversements stylistiques qui accompagnent cette activité s’étendent rapidement aux autres arts, de l’enluminure à l’ivoire et de l’orfèvrerie au mobilier. En quelques décennies, Paris s’impose comme la référence artistique de toute l’Europe, architecture et sculpture connaissent un âge d’or avec la construction de la cathédrale Notre-Dame, de la Sainte-Chapelle et de nombreux autres édifices qu’évoque l’exposition.
  Plus information : http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/homes/home_id20722_u1l2.htm

• Musées de le Royaume d'Arabie saoudite
  • Dammam Museum
  • Tiama Museum
  • National Museum
  • Al-Zaher Palace Museum in Makkah
  • Al Jouf Museum
  • Shobrah Palace Museum
  • Tabuk Museum
  • Tabuk Museum of the Northern Border
  • Museum of Hail
  • Jeddah Al Khozam Museum
  • Museum of Musmak Fort
  • Museum of Najran
  • Museum Namas
  • Museum of Jazan
  • Museum of the Two Holy Mosques
  • Museum of Saudi Aramaco
  • Museum of Currency
  • Museum Saqr Jazeera Airways
  • Archaeological Museum of King Saud University

  Plus information en anglais : http://www.scta.gov.sa/sites/english/Antiquities_and_Museums/
  Museums_Directory/Pages/default.aspx

• [english] National Museum of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  The National Museum was established as a national landmark in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to contribute to the enrichment process of education, cultural awareness, and the development of long association with the citizens, and to be an eternal message. The National Museum occupies over seventeen thousand square meters on the eastern side of the King Abdulaziz Historical Center and the total area of the premises of the building, which is consisting of two storeys, reaches twenty-eight thousand square meters. The museum is providing an educational environment for different segments of the society and in multiple levels. The National Museum has a variety of exhibits including antiquities, documents, manuscripts, display boards as well as the use of latest means of multimedia displays in addition to documentaries and scientific films in many halls.
  Plus information en anglais : http://www.scta.gov.sa/sites/english/Pages/National_Museum.aspx

• [english] Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) signs contracts worth SR145 million to establish 4 provincial museums (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
  His Royal Highness Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz, President of SCTA, recently signed contracts for the establishment of 4 new museums in the provinces of Baha, Tabuk, Hail and Dammam, worth 145 million Saudi riyals. The four regional museums are scheduled to be established over a period of two years. The signing ceremony was held at the headquarters of King Abdul Aziz Historical Center in Riyadh with representatives of four companies that will be executing the establishment of museums nationwide in attendance.
  Plus information en anglais : http://www.scta.gov.sa/sites/english/news/Pages/03news-16-3-2010.aspx

17 mars

• Un espace museographique - Maison de la Baie de Somme (France)
  Véritable initiation aux richesses naturelles de l’Estuaire, la Maison de la Baie de Somme et de l’Oiseau est un espace muséographique, ouvert à tous. Progressivement, au moyen d’un parcours pédagogique, vous vous initierez aux particularités de l’estuaire. Découvrez plus de 250 espèces d’oiseaux dans leurs milieux naturels : falaises, bois, marais....
  A la fin de la visite, un film « Contre Vents et Marées » vous permettra de comprendre l’évolution et l’avenir de la Baie de Somme. Parcours extérieur, découverte sur les plans d’eau des anatidés de la Baie, des plantes aquatiques du marais ainsi que de la nidification des avocettes.
  Plus information : http://www.festival-oiseau-nature.com/Le-Musee.html

MUSEUM International N°243 - Célébrer l’excellence : Numéro spécial ICCROM

Table des matières

Éditorial, Mounir Bouchenaki et Françoise Rivière
Préface, Mounir Bouchenaki
La vision du président du Conseil E. Blaine Cliver

Création et évolution de l’ICCROM

* Le premier cinquantenaire de l’ICCROM Jukka Jokilehto
* Le Centre international d’études pour la conservation et la restauration des biens culturels à Rome : créer de nouveaux critères internationaux de préservation Paul N. Perrot
* L’ICCROM et l’Italie Rosalia Varoli-Piazza
* Le fonctionnement du Conseil de l’ICCROM A. Daoulatli

La conservation comme expertise (ICCROM et formation)

* Le Cours sur la conservation de l’architecture de l’ICCROM, 1982-1992 : histoire, évolution, impact Jeanne Marie Teutonico
* Regarder au cœur du sujet Katriina Similä
* L’ICCROM et l’Afrique : changer le paysage culturel dans les musées et le patrimoine immatériel George Abungu

La conservation comme stratégie

* La science, la technologie et l’ICCROM Giorgio Torraca
* La Bibliothèque de l'ICCROM: cinquante ans au service des chercheurs Marie-Christine Uginet
* La contribution de l’ICCROM à l’éthique du patrimoine Isabelle Vinson
* Sensibiliser le public pour mieux conserver Gaël De Guichen et Catheline Perier d’Ieteren

http://portal.unesco.org/culture/fr/ev.php-URL_ID=40040&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html