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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…
