Before the summer holiday,

we are sure that you want to catch up on NEMO’s activities the last month. We are also happy to announce that the registration to NEMO’s 26th Annual Conference has opened!

From 15-18 November 2018, NEMO will gather European museum and culture professionals in Valletta, Malta, to network, exchange expertise and explore the crossover impact that museums have on other sectors. Register via this google form.

Have you applied for the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 label yet? All projects awarded with the EYCH label by NEMO before September 2018 have the chance to be selected to present their activity at NEMO's 26th Annual Conference. Accommodation and travels will be covered by NEMO. Further information about the EYCH 2018 label can be found here.

On 19 June 2018, 872 people joined NEMO and its partners at the Museum for Communication Berlin to celebrate museums and cultural heritage at the event A Museum Night Out – Dance at the Museum! See photos from the beautiful evening here.

Earlier on the same day, the conference Cultural Heritage Communities and Audiences in Today’s Digital Environment gathered 60 professionals in the Museum for Communication. Both events were organised within the framework of the European Cultural Heritage Summit – Sharing Heritage/ Sharing Values; the most visible event organised in Europe within the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018. Read about the conference here.

Jonathan Eaton and Mirian Bllaci discussed difficult heritage when facilitating the webinar From Mines to Mind-Maps: A dialogue-based approach to museum planning at Spaç Prison, on 25 June 2018. Watch the last NEMO Webinar by clicking here.

We hope that you will have a relaxing and enjoyable summer holiday!
The NEMO office

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EXARC: Europe funds Bronze Age Potters in EU project, ongoing international project

CRAFTER brings together four museums, two cultural associations and two higher education centres from five countries (Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary and Serbia). It will revive Europe’s Bronze Age pottery with films, exhibitions and a network of potters.
>> More information can be found here

European Museum Academy and the Bayerische Museumsakademie: Conference "The Art of Attraction – Audience Development for Museums“, 22-23 October 2018, Augsburg, Germany

This international two-day conference, aimed primarily at museum professionals, explores the power of audience development and outlines ways in which museums can benefit from its methods to make the best of their collections for the best of their public – regardless of their location, size, budget and type of collection. For the registration to this conference, please follow this link, where you find the button "Anmelden" or contact directly Bettina Dankesreiter (BMA): dankesreiter@mpz.bayern.de

Portuguese Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage: Conference Cultural Heritage - Challenges 21st Century, 25-26 October 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal

In the scope of the EYCH, the Portuguese Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage organizes in partnership with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation the Conference Cultural Heritage: Challenges 21st Century, in Lisbon, on 25th and 26th October 2018. The meeting will take place in plenary sessions and is structured in three panels: Heritage, Knowledge and Innovation, Heritage and Sustainability and Models of Management of Cultural Heritage.
Register here.
>> Visit the website for more inforamtion

National Institute for Museums and Public Collections: Conference “Research on the role of cultural heritage in the building of (national) identity in post conflict situations”, 10-12 Warsaw, Poland

The Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the National Institute for Museums and Public Collections invite to the Conference about the role of the culture heritage in the building of identity in post conflict situations. The event is an action within a task entrusted to Poland in the Project JHEP2 (JPI CH).
>> More information (in Polish)

ICOM Russia - The discussion “Museum communication or what the museum keeps silence about” –13 July 2018, Moscow, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

This event continued the series of discussions in the context of the main theme of International Museum Day 2018 - "Hyperconnected museums: New approaches, new publics". During the discussion, speakers and participants reflected on methods of communication between the museum and its visitors on the “language of things” or “language of meanings”, which museums safeguard and promote.
>> Further information can be found here