“City Museums: Collisions I Connections” – Museum of Vancouver
October 24-26, 2012
The International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities (CAMOC) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), in collaboration with the Museum of Vancouver, presents “City Museums: Collisions I Connections”, a conference on city museums and their engagement in city life at the Museum of Vancouver, October 24–26, 2012.
The conference will bring speakers and delegates from around the world together to talk about how city museums are reconsidering their role in civic life due to the enormous pressure cities face in terms of aging infrastructure, the need for urban regeneration, economic and environmental crises, and social issues such demographic shifts, global diasporas, and increasing immigrant and urban Aboriginal populations. The conference will look at city museums under development, urban/edge city museums, and city museums in large and small cities.
In addition to presentations by speakers from more than 15 countries, the conference features keynote addresses by:
· Internationally-respected urban planner Larry Beasley
· Former Director of the Museum of London, now CEO of the Royal British Columbia Museum, Jack Lohman
The conference will also include behind-the-scenes tours of the Museum of Vancouver, an opening reception at the Museum of Anthropology/UBC, National Film Board premiere at VIFF, Ignite! sessions, poster competition, meeting at the Vancouver Art Gallery, an off-site workshop in North Vancouver, and optional tours of Richmond or Gastown.
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CAMOC is “a forum for people who work in or are interested in museums about cities, urban planners, historians, economists, architects or geographers, all of whom together can share knowledge and experience, exchange ideas and explore partnerships across international boundaries.”
The Museum of Vancouver is Canada’s largest urban history museum focusing on the life of a city.
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With regard to the conference theme, “Connections and Collisions,” please be advised of a current CAUSA research project:
“IAIN BAXTER&: Information/Location, North Vancouver.”
[A multi-site exhibition/installation at the North Vancouver Museum, the North Vancouver City Library, and Loutet Urban Farm.]
– David Bellman, Research Curator, CAUSA. [Formerly Chief Curator,:McCord Museum, Montreal.]