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2012 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
ICFA 2012 in MOSCOW: 30 September – 5 October
ICOM Russia and ICFA, the ICOM International Committee for museums and collections of Fine arts, invite speakers and participators for the ICFA annual conference to be held in Moscow 30 Sept. – 5 Oct. 2012. Our meeting this year organized by ICOM Russia will be hosted by the State Pushkin museum of Fine Arts and the State Tretyakov Gallery.
This international conference will focus on the theme “MUSEUMS OF FINE ARTS: ARIAL OF EXISTENCE, SPHERES OF INFLUENCE”. We expect proposals for presentations, which analyse current issues in the field of museum complexes: principles of functioning, management and development.
Museum complex includes a number of premises with permanent displays, exhibition spaces, storages, research and restoration studios, libraries and archives, education centers, administrative offices. An important part is museum infrastructure with cafes, museum shops, recreation zones and so on. How effectively and on what grounds and principles to plan the museum complexes structure, functioning dislocation, type of management, and concepts of development?
Subjects:
Museums and museum enterprises.
Activity of museum complexes and marketing of museum services.
Visual identification: architecture, design.
Museums and society.
Museum and city.
Submissions can be:
Research papers presentations are invited to break new ground, present new insight, and a research contribution. 20 minutes
Theme papers report practical results and contribute to one of the points mentioned above. 15 minutes
Project papers present new projects or perspective plans of museum complexes, quarters and areas development. 20 minutes
Videos or alternative media to be shown during the sessions or breaks. No longer than 8 minutes and have a brief text summary
Speakers should attempt to present a critical reflection on their research, observations, study cases.
Proposal deadline May 1st 2012
The official language of the conference – English with simultaneous translation into Russian during the working sessions.
Please fill in the form and submit before the deadline May 1st on icom.russia2012@gmail.com
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Authors will be notified of acceptance by May 15, 2012.
If you have questions, please contact
Ksenia Novokhatko, ICOM Russia Project Director