Curators Rebecca Dolgoy, Emily Gann, and Erin Gregory, will present Ingenium’s Curating under Quarantine initiative, a project which focuses on documenting the current COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on science, technology, and society. The presentation will begin with an overview of the project and its conceptualization, followed by a discussion of specific activities within the project, such as documentation, partnerships, acquisition strategy, and sharing outputs. This will be followed by a Question and Answer period. 25th February 2021, 15:00 CET

IATM – Start of a series exciting worldwide webinars The IATM Board has decided to organize 2021 every month a Webinar to maintain to contact with our members and to enlarge the range of participants, not only the Directors but also the other staff members. The start will be made by the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne on Thursday, 28 January 2021 at 14:00 (GMT) / 15:00 European continent. Duration: 1 hour (including live Q & A) Topic of the webinar: Restoration of the steamship DS Rigi, Lake Lucerne 1848-1952 (in the museum since 1959). The steamship Rigi is as old as modern Switzerland and thus our oldest preserved…

As museums across the world stay closed and society locks down, IATM is launching a monthly webinar series, on the fourth Thursday of each month. This will be open to our members and their museums but will be recorded and made available to anyone interested on our IATM website. The IATM webinars will be presented by transport and communications museums, and go behind the scenes to look at how museums are coping with Covid and planning for a better future.   Programm Thursday 28 January Steam ship restoration and members meeting on Covid closures Martin Bütikofer Verkehrshaus der Schweiz/, Lucerne Thursday 25 February Curating under Covid Stephen Quick Ingenium, Ottawa,…

Webinars, Monday 28th September 2020 IATM is pleased to announce a virtual annual conference on Monday 28 September 2020, a day of four linked webinars with a concluding session. Each webinar to be 1hr 15mins, with short 10-minute presentations, questions and discussion to be chaired by hosts from the board of IATM. We invite all the museum colleagues to register and join this conference through ALVA, AIM and Museums Association and across international networks. The IAMT membership is not required to attend the webinars. The conference is free of charge, but it requires a separate registration for each session. Please note that all the times are BST (British Summer Time)…

The annual IATM conference had been planned for London & Bristol from 27-29 September 2020 on the theme of ‘The Relevance & Sustainability of our Museums’. In light of the coronavirus epidemic, this has been postponed, provisionally to September 2021. Save the Date for our first IATM Virtual Conference on Monday 28 September, a day of webinars on the theme of ‘Shared Thinking on experiencing the post-COVID world’ Join directors of transport, postal and communications museums from Europe, N.America and Australia to share new thinking, best practice and bright ideas on the new world after the Coronavirus epidemic. Each webinar to be 1hr 15mins, with short 10-minute presentations, questions and…