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IATM 46th Annual Conference in London
Sunday 24 to Wednesday 27 September 2023 Hosted by London Transport Museum & London Postal Museum The Post-Pandemic World and the Museum What contribution must museums make in the post-pandemic society, especially communication and transport museums? The pandemic period has led to significant changes in visitor behaviour and patterns and has also led many institutions to question and redefine their…
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Save the Date
Sunday 24 – Wednesday 27 September 2023 IATM 45th Annual Conference in London Hosted by London Transport Museum & London Postal Museum The Post-Pandemic Museum The 2023 IATM conference will look at three significant components for a sustainable museum in the post-pandemic world; relevance to the society around us, maintaining strong corporate relationships and how you turn your collections and…
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Register now and join us!
With out first in-person opportunity to meet and work together since our Berlin conference in 2019, this year we are hosted by museum colleagues in Prague. Based in the city’s museums, we look at three key questions; our environmental sustainability in the face of climate change, the relevance of our museums to the changing society around us and what we…
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Call for papers and presentations on good practice from member museums
IATM Conference, Prague, 28-31 August 2022 IATM is proud to present its first in-person conference in three years. The IATM Board are keen for as many delegates as possible to have a voice in Prague, to tell us about your museum and it’s view of the future, so do get in touch with your ideas now. This is the opportunity…
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Webinar: Exhibition “Back to Future. Visions of Technology between Fiction and Reality” – Museum of Communication Berlin
The webinar takes you on a journey to yesterday’s visions of future technologies as imagined by pioneering creative minds. The images they invented as illustrations and postcards and in novels and films expressed the hopes, yearnings, fears, and discontents of their particular eras. Their works present fantasy scenes and very concrete ideas – and while some have now become unquestioned…
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Save the Date – IATM Conference 2022
Join us in Prague this August for the return to a face-to-face IATM conference IATM Annual Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 28 – 31 August 2022 Theme – Sustaining our Museums in a Challenging World As we learn to live with Covid, our museums must now play a part in creating a sustainable world. Against the background of the beautiful city…
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Behind the scenes of the new Hungarian Transport Museum project
The IATM Webinar on Thursday 24th February, 1400 GMT/1500 CET will go behind the scenes of plans for the new transport museum in Budapest, introduced by Gábor Zsigmund, Deputy General Director of the Hungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport and IATM Board member. One of the most ambitious projects in Europe for a new Transport Museum is currently under…
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How do you decarbonise your museum?
IATM Webinar, Thursday 27 January 1400 (GMT) / 1500 (CET) In this first webinar of 2022, we will explore and seek to demystify what decarbonisation means for our museums, with the help of Mott Macdonald, global engineering, management and development consultancy, who made their own organisation carbon neutral in 2020. Transport and communications museums are important places for public discussion…
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You are invited to a festive IATM Christmas webinar
Join us live from London Transport Museum in Covent Garden, London, on 7 December for a light-hearted exploration of Christmas across IATM museums, including Swiss Transport Museum in Lucerne, the Finnish Postal Museum in Tampere and the German Postal Museum in Nuremberg. Live from London, the webinar will be hosted by Alex Grundon and explore the London Transport Museum’s Christmas…
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Postal Museum Prague – The creation of a postage stamp
This webinar shows the creation of postage stamps with an emphasis on their aesthetic value. The focus is primarily on postage stamps created during the Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic era and shows how the artist’s original graphic work is transposed to an engraving by line drawing and the mass production of stamps through wide variety of printing technologies. The Postal…
