40th CONFERENCE 2015
28 June – 1 July 2015, Porto and Lisbon, Portugal
Theme: Changing Priorities
Report
Download the report of the 40th conference by Suzana Faro.
Programme
Conference Programme 2015 (PDF)Session
Below you can download the presentations of the 40th IATM conference in Porto/ Lisbon as PDF-files.
Session 1: Sustainability | ||
Visions for Sustainability | José Portugal | |
Forced Change. Museums in the European Union under the new PSI-legislation. | Joachim Breuninger | Transport Museum Dresden |
Issues in Contemporary Collecting | Bianca Gendreau | Canadian Museum of History |
Relocating Museum. Moving the Finnish Postal Museum from Helsinki to Tampere | Kimmo Antila | Finnish Postal Museum |
Hallmarks of a Prosperous Museum | Sam Mullins | London Transport Museum |
“Standing on the shoulders of Giants” | Suzanna Faro | Transport and Communications Museum Porto |
Session 2: Publics | ||
Against the post museum idea: publics and its contexts | João Teixeira Lopes | University of Porto |
Museum Publics: Knowledge Through Pleasure | Adriana Almeida, Cecília Amorim, Isabel Tavares e Paula Moura | Transport and Communications Museum Porto |
Museums in India: Changing Priorities Towards Publics | Ragini Bhat | Heritage Transport Museum India |
The development of a mobile app and the creation of a new exhibition on space technology | Stephen Quick | Canada Aviation and Space Museum |
Tramcar’s role in the evolution of Porto | Carla Dias | Tram Museum Porto |
Session 3: Accessibility | ||
Defending our true selves: being museums | Maria Vlachou | Access Culture |
Portuguese National Railway Museum | Maria José Teixeira | Portuguese National Railway Museum Foundation |
Models for Operating Rail Heritage in the 21st century | Andrew Moritz | The Workshops Rail Museum |
Riga Motor Museum’s reconstruction | Aija Bauere | Riga Motor Museum |
Creating an exhibition on current technologies in an immersive environment | Stephen Quick | Canada Aviation and Space Museum |
Session 4: Networking and partnerships | ||
Cooperation, partnerships and national networks of museums in Europe | Clara Camacho | Directorate General for Cultural Heritage |
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum: Making Connections | João Carvalho Dias | Calouste Gulbenkian Museum |
The Restoration of the low-cost light train “Blue Arrow” BLS from – an interdisciplinary project | Kilian T. Elsasser | |
Creating a living museum with commercial and educational institution partners | Stephen Quick | Canadian War Museum |
HOSTS
organization:
Transport and Communications Museum
partner museums:
National Coach Museum
Museu das Comunicações
Museu do Carro Eléctrico
Museu da Marinha