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Routes to Recovery
Due to the worldwide impact of the coronavirus, IATM have decided to cancel the annual conference in September in London. Over the next few weeks the IATM board is planning a one day virtual conference on Monday 28 September, ‘Routes to Recovery’, with a series of online webinars open to all IATM members on how transport and communications museums are planning their operational and financial futures. Full details will be available by the end of June but please keep the date free. We are also reviving our online presence as meeting face-to-face will be difficult for some time. Please check out the IATM Facebook page to see how other museums…
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Material culture produced by forced labour
Ian Brown, Assistant Curator of Aviation at National Museums Scotland is in the early stages of research into the material culture produced by forced labour during the Holocaust and how this is represented and interpreted in museum collections. He would be interested to hear from anyone carrying out similar research or with such collections in their museum. He can be contacted at i.brown@nms.ac.uk.
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Register now for our conferene
IATM welcomes you to the 2019 conference which will be held in Berlin and also Dresden (Germany) from September 22nd to 25th. We are once again endeavouring to create a program that is both dynamic and pertinent to the challenges we face as Transport, Postal and Communication museums. This year our theme is sustainability. We will discuss collections, programming, curatorial and financial sustainability. The objective for this year is to create a conference that is dynamic, relevant and participatory. We have been tuning the conferences over these last years to address your needs and to provide a platform for engagement and exchange of expertise rather than the usual format of…
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Call for paper: Sustainable museums
Dear Colleagues, Share your best practice and ideas with us! In September 2019 we’ll come together in Berlin, Germany. The International Association of Transport and Communications Museums invites you to shape the conference by submitting an innovative and forward-thinking proposal for paper presentations or workshops/interactive sessions by Friday, 31st May 2019. Proposals must relate to the following subthemes. Sustainable Collections: Collection management preservation/disposal, storage practicalities, risk management/ safeguarding Economic sustainability: diversify sources of financing, “efficiency with conscience”, sharing economy Social sustainability: relationships, audiences, local/ global communities, staff/skills/knowledge Environmental sustainability: energy efficiency, climate change, waste, resources, dealing with hazardous substances If you would like to present, please use our proposal form…
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Presidents letter
Dear Members of IATM, I want to wish you a wonderful start to this new year and every success in your endeavours. This past year we were able to come together at the conference here in Ottawa and enjoy Canada’s capital city and our time together. The conference featured a number of interesting presentations that we hope to put online for your access and a number of visits to the Science and Technology museums here in the city and in Montreal, Quebec. This year we will be hosting the conference in Berlin, Germany. We are once again endeavouring to create a program that is both dynamic and pertinent to the…
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Save the date: Berlin 2019
We have started to plan our conference for 2019. It will take place in Berlin and also Dresden (Germany) from September 23rd to 25th. Details will be published soon 😀 But we can already let you know our hosts: German Museum of Technology Berlin Museum for Communication Berlin Transport Museum Dresden Bundeswehr Military History Museum
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Impressions of the conference in Ottawa
See you next year at the Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin! Excursion to the Canadian Railway Museum in St. Constant Conference participants trying the VR-App at the National Gallery of Canada Day 2: Canada Science and Technology Museum Day 1 at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum
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Presidents letter: Join us at this year’s conference!
Dear IATM members and non-members, This past year we had a wonderful conference that took us to Lucerne, Berne and through the historic tunnels to the Ticino district of Switzerland on the Italian border. We were warmly welcomed by the Transport Museum in Lucerne, the Museum of Communication in Berne and to Bellinzona in Ticino and the Castello Sasso Carbero. As always it was wonderful to bring together colleagues from museums facing the same issues with the same lack of resources. You can read the full report at here. In Switzerland we tried a new type of model for the sessions. Instead of having presenters at each session we broke…
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Early bird registration deadline extended
The early bird deadline for the 2018 IATM + CIMUSET Conference in Canada has been extended to August 27, 2018. Register today!
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Deadline for Call for papers is ending soon!
IATM invites you to submit papers for the 43rd conference which will be held in Ottawa at 15- 17 (optional 18) October 2018. As usual we will start the conference with a Meet & Greet on Sunday, 14 October at the evening. Please submit your Registration Form and your Call for Paper Application Form with abstract by midnight (12:00AM, EST) June 29th, 2018 to: CIMUSET2018@gmail.com Call for Paper Application Form Submission Guidelines: • Abstracts must not exceed 250 words. • Submissions must be received by midnight (12:00AM, EST) June 29th, 2018. Late entries will not be considered. • All submissions will be vetted by the Review Committee. • Your submission…
