May was an awesome month for Local Approach! Launchig our collabortion with APAC, with their wonderful articles, and we are now CHARTER Alliance Community members (more on that below)!
As for content around heritage, May did not disappoint with interesting articles and events all around! Have a gander and let us know what picked your interest the most!
Heritage Management
Cultural Engagement and Mechanisms of Actions
New technological approaches to hybrid and remote guided tours
War has shown Ukrainians – and the rest of us – why museums are so important for telling our stories
Understanding the needs of disabled artists
News
Drought in Iraq Reveals 3,400-Year-Old City
US man returns antiquities to Italy after reading Guardian report on looted relics
L’un des objets restitués à la Grèce serait un faux connu
That Parthenon chat
Declassified documents on Parthenon Marbles reveal rift between UK government and British Museum
L’Autriche pourrait restituer deux fragments du Parthénon
Interesting Reads
Pericles & the Restoration of the Athenian Agora (The ancient heritage management)
Ten Great Ancient Mesopotamian Women
A Newly Digitized Logbook Documents Life and Death on a Slave Trading Ship
Minerva [For our internal international museum day celebration ;)]
Events
Museums: register your event on the IMD 2023 interactive map!
F-ATLAS Conference: Franciscan Observance Landscapes
Communities for Heritage – sharing journeys of exploration and action by communities across Ireland
To do:
Launch of the ICOM Global Survey on Collections in Storage!
Books
Ethnographies of Deservingness Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality
Opportunities
ICCROM
Pompeii Sustainable Preservation Project – International Summer School 2023
ICOM
Call for Projects: Solidarity in times of crisis
Kent
Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Agent-Based Modelling for Conservation
Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Conservation Science
Exeter
PhD Studentship: Machine Learning for Mapping Habitat Histories with the National Trust
Local Approach Supporter of CHARTER Alliance
We have officially joined the CHARTER Community programme of CHARTER – The European Cultural Heritage Skills Alliance as a Supporter member. The Erasmus+ funded blueprint project aims to bridge the gap between educational and occupational systems in the cultural heritage sector by creating a lasting and comprehensive skills alliance. This flagship project is crucial to ensure a future sustainable, resilient and strong cultural heritage sector. We strongly encourage you to follow-up its development and results. If you wish to join the CHARTER Community to engage and be connect with the project apply here: https://charter-alliance.eu/engage
