Events, Preview
- 03.06.-04.06.2013
From the 19th to the 21st Century
Privatisation and the status of museums in civil society
Workshop in cooperation with the Austrian Museum Association Registration is required! The privatisation of the Universal Museum Joanneum in 2003 was probably the museum’s biggest organisational change in its 200-year history. We would like to take the occasion of the... 
- 13.06.-14.06.2013
Understanding, revealing, discovering
Research in museums
Workshop in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research Registration is required! In 2008, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research (bmwf) started the forMuse – Research in Museums programme and thus, for the first time, created a... 
- 27.06.-29.06.2013
Land of mountains and museums
Switzerland
Excursion Registration is required! Thanks to Switzerland’s cantonal structure, there is a great museum every couple of kilometres. We would love to visit them all, but since this isn’t possible on a three-day trip, we have selected a number of interesting museums covering... 
- 22.07.-26.07.2013
The history of displaying in museums
Via the example of the museums of Berlin
Workshop in cooperation with the Institute for Art in Conetxt of the Berlin University of the Arts Registration is required! The history of the museum is a history of displaying, arranging, and assembling objects and design elements in space for the purpose of mediation.... 
- 18.10.2013
Museums of history
Images and responsibilities of provincial and regional (cultural) history museums
Conference in cooperation with the vorarlberg museum Registration is required! Despite repeated attempts over the last 100 years as well as a now 10-year debate, Austria still does not have a national museum of Austrian history. Additionally, only a limited number of provincial... 
- 28.11.2013
Museum policy
On the strategic development of regional museums
Round table in cooperation with the Association of Upper Austrian Museums Registration is required! A large part of the museums in the German-speaking world are regional and local museums. Many countries in Europe have strategy papers and plans for the best possible future... 
- 05.12.-06.12.2013
Nature museums: what’s the point?
On the social role of an institution
Conference in cooperation with the Natural History Museum of the Universal Museum Joanneum Registration is required! Nature museums have always been underrepresented in museological debates. And yet, the bulk of museum objects worldwide are natural objects and the traditional... 









