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This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue V, May 2024

Switzerland report

Swiss GLAM Programme

International Museum Day

The Magic of Museums - Dynamic Centers of Education and Innovation

This month we focussed on the International Museum Day, that has been realised also the last years. This year the International Museum Campaign was realised with the focus on education, research and innovative infrastructures together with Giovanna Fontenelle who is located in Brazil. The aim is to support museums in sharing their knowledge in the wiki universe. Each exhibition is done with science, knowledge and huge material resources only for a certain amount of time. On wiki it can stay for longer. The content can be made available for everyone. It can also be used for research and in schools.

Panel

IMD 2024Fascinating World of Museum Education

The panel for the International Museum Day took place on Friday the 17th with four speakers. The first speaker was Emily Hildebrand, an art educator. She was talking about her artistic practice and how she uses it while teaching. The main gift people receive is empathy as all participants enjoy collaborating and getting the inner space of their own perception. Then the Museum ZKM presented their projects on Wikipedia. Anika Wilcox, who is an artist herself, explained how the projects started and why media art heritage is important. The art historian Hanna Steinert was the third speaker explaining how communities are designed exclusively although wanting to welcome everybody. Athina Petsou, PHD-researcher and former ambassador for Europe from Art+Feminism, talked about curatorial practices and the shift in combination with wiki projects.

Outlook

IMD 2024 Museums Important Research Institutions

The future of museums is more an inclusive one. All knowledge shall be included and it should be made accessible for everyone. Museums are in a process of transformation. As Wiki-movement we can support this process and be part of it. The video shows opportunities of research and on how many topics we can relate to. Parallel to the focus of museums other projects have been carried out. The regular Atelier took place and this time we were writing about the Gosteli Archive, a foundation for saving records on Swiss women.

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