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…

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…

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.