Monthly Archive for November, 2010

New ICOM President to join Inclusive Museum Conference, Johannesburg

Published on November 30, 2010 in Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Dr. Hans-Martin HINZ, the newly elected President of ICOM, will be joining the 2011 Inclusive Museum Conference at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, 30 June-3 July 2011.

A Doctor of Natural Sciences, Hans-Martin Hinz began his career as Advisor for the establishment of new museums for the Ministry of Cultural Affairs in West Berlin, Germany. Since 1991, he has been a member of the management team at the German Historical Museum in Berlin where he was curator for 10 years. From 2000 to 2001, he was Deputy Minister of Culture for Berlin. During his career, he also occupied several positions in national and international museum institutions, including his membership of the German Arts Council, his positions of Deputy Chair of the International Association of History Museums, Chair of the Advisory Council of Berlin’s City Museum, Board member of the Curt Engelhorm Foundation in Mannheim and Chair of the Association of German Historical Research Institutions in Munich. More…

Published on November 30, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

From The New York Times…

Joan Rosenbaum, who has led the Jewish Museum since 1981, will step down as director at the end of June, the museum plans to announce on Wednesday.

“Thirty years is a very good run,” Ms. Rosenbaum, 67, said in an interview. “The museum is well-positioned now to take on the next stage of its life.” The board of the museum, which is on Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, has formed a search committee to find a successor. Under Ms. Rosenbaum the museum’s collection has grown to 26,000 objects, its endowment to more than $92 million and its annual operating budget to $15 million from $1 million in 1981. More…

Yale and Peru Have Tentative Deal on Disputed Antiquities

Published on November 23, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

From The New York Times…

For the second time in three years Yale University and the government of Peru have reached a tentative agreement on the return of a large group of artifacts excavated in 1912 at Machu Picchu by a Yale explorer.

Peru has argued that the items were only lent to the university and should have been returned long ago. Yale has contended that it returned all borrowed objects in the 1920s, retaining only those to which it had full title. In 2007 the sides reached a tentative agreement that would have set up a long-term collaboration and granted title of the disputed antiquities to Peru while allowing a certain number to remain at Yale for study and display. But that deal fell apart in 2008, and Peru filed suit in federal court in Connecticut. It also recently threatened to pursue criminal charges against Yale. And earlier this month Alan García, the president of Peru, formally requested the White House’s intervention in the dispute. More…

Inclusive Museum Journal: Recently Published

Published on November 17, 2010 in Journal and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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The most recent issue of The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum includes: