This event is one of the outcomes of the “European Policy Grouping “Museums and Municipalities” [the core group is made of the University Paris I Sorbonne, the Louvre Museum, the Manchester City Museum, the municipality of Split and ENCATC], who, throughout 2010 has been organising meetings, research studies and an important enquiry, with more than 200 museums and 50 municipalities having been so far consulted.
The Conference has also the ambition to identify concrete proposals and best practices as well as to collect as many contributions as possible for the White paper on “Museums and Local Authorities” to be published by the policy group before the end of this year. Having this in mind, it will be organised as an interactive dialogue which will bring together 100 representatives from museums and local authorities in Europe and beyond. Four plenary sessions will be successively organised: Why the relations between museums and municipalities should be analysed; The challenge from the museums’ perspective; The challenge from the municipalities’ perspective; What can be the most relevant relations between museums and municipalities. Each session will begin with the results of the enquiry and case studies, and will open the discussion with curators, mayors and the audience participants. This approach aims to give each participant the opportunity to contribute to the final recommendations. The participants will be introduced to additional input on the issues under discussion provided by experts.
To register for the Conference, please click here: http://www.encatc.org/register/. The deadline for registration is the 30th of November. Practical information, together with a list of hotels, directions to the conference venue and tips for your stay in Brussels will be posted in few days on our website: www.encatc.org.
The Conference is free of charge. The invitation covers the conference coffee breaks and lunch on the 10th of December. Travel and accommodation costs will not be reimbursed to the participants.
To enable the discussions to start in a less formal setting, the Conference will officially open on the 9th of December at 20:00 with a welcome dinner at Warwick Barsey Hotel, Avenue Louise 381-383 - 1050 Brussels (at participants own expenses, about 30 EUR per person).
To confirm your attendance at the dinner on the December 9th please send an e-mail to Elizabeth Darley (projects@encatc.org).
If you need more information about the organization of this event, please write an e-mail to Giannalia Cogliandro Beyens (g.cogliandro@encatc.org).
If you want to know more about the project or about the Policy Grouping please write to Anne Krebs (Anne.Krebs@louvre.fr).
After the Conference participants are invited to participate in a very special evening: “Moral, identity and citizenship”. On Friday, 10 December, at 20.15, Paul Scheffer, writer and publicist – Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, Philippe Van Parijs, philosopher, economist and publicist - Professor at the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences of the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), and Luuk Van Middelaar, philosopher and author – Member of the cabinet of Herman van Rompuy, President of the European Council, will be invited to Brussels for a in-depth debate dedicated to “Moral, identity and citizenship”. Topics which are high on the agenda in the current state of Europe and our societies. The evening is a joint initiative of the European House for Culture, Felix Meritis (Amsterdam), Festival of Philosophy and Flagey; with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgium and the French Community Wallonie-Bruxelles. Information about tickets and reservation is available here: http://www.flagey.be/en/events/4030/european-cultural-citizenship
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to help us shape the White paper on “Museums and Local Authorities” and to discuss and exchange experiences and practices with your peers and colleagues!