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Where will you celebrate International Museum Day? Check with ICOM’S interactive map
ICOM launched an on-line map to host events for May 18 the International Museum Day, where you can find events around you or post your events here! On this day museums get a chance to host a variety of events, exhibitions, concerts, guided tours, have extended opening hours and many more ways to connect with…
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Imagined and Participatory Communities
Most heritage policies, officially adopted, encourage participatory heritage management by communities. You are likely to read the term in any heritage project nowadays, heck, even our page’s dedication is to it, yet the understanding and implications of the terms vary significantly. To understand the imagined community try this process. Think of your favourite/most notable heritage…
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How-to: heritage video gaming
Cultural heritage games, one of our favourite topics, are ever-growing in multiple genres and purposes. The principles behind a good video game and accurate transmission of cultural heritage values are still in development in academic circles, which begs the question, how to create a good heritage video game? While researchers put forward effective ways to…
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Cultural heritage now on the green agenda: European Cultural Heritage Green Paper
European Cultural Heritage Green Paper proposes actions for cultural heritage integration into the European Green Deal framework. Who Europa Nostra ICOMOS Climate Heritage Network European Heritage Alliance European Investment Bank Institute, work together with one goal. What European Cultural Heritage Green Paper “Putting Europe’s shared heritage at the heart of the European Green Deal” was…
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Curated Reading List: March 2021
Your Curated Reading List for March is out along with spring and the easter bunny. The topics this month were very diverse, the discussion for the museum of care puts forth some interesting ideas, the Antikythera Mechanism is back in archaeological ‘fashion’ with a very new model and much more below. Pandemic anniversary: the things…
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Handbook of Research on Teacher Education in History and Geography
The Handbook of Research on Teacher Education in History and Geography released recently ties two fundamental aspects of heritage education. The handbook is a collaborative effort of researchers from Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Portugal, Sweden and the United States addressing teachers challenges regarding these two topics. The handbook touches upon many subjects, including: Analysis of…
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Dark heritage, a reintroduction
Dark heritage, or ‘difficult’ heritage, is a category of cultural items associated with suffering, death and conflict. (**not the game** **certainly not the movie**) While dark heritage sites were always around, evidently, they have had the most stunted infrastructure. In the past twenty years, the terminology and practice have evolved considerably. Dark tourism, associated with…
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PERICLES maritime heritage, map and policy.
PERICLES is a coastal and maritime heritage project around Europe running from 2018 until this spring. Since the project nears its end, we thought it would be beneficial to see what they achieved. What PERICLES, at its core, is a participatory heritage management initiative, meaning that the processes of research, policy, implementation, etc., derive from…
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Fundraising, how-to guide 2: Virtual fundraising events, an introduction
Virtual fundraising events are an effective practice for communication and, of course, fundraising. Virtual events follow the same guiding principles and tactics of fundraising but differ in format and execution. Before proceeding to this article, we recommend you refresh your memory on the topic with our ‘Fundraising, how-to guide. ‘ Virtual events are a popular…
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Cultural Heritage in Action: communities working together
Local and regional policymakers in Europe meet and share their cultural heritage practices within Cultural Heritage in Action. Together they aim to achieve participatory governance, adaptive re-use of heritage buildings and quality interventions. With “Peer-learning”, 12 European cities host online and on-site visits in two instalments, sharing their work and learning together as part of…