New Board Elected

General Meetings

Written by Worklab Sunday, 15 August 2010 16:50

Worklab's General Meeting was held in Tampere 13 August 2010. The Minutes will be online soon. Peter Ludvigsen resigned the board after being the Chairman of Worklab since 1997. The new chairman is Kalle Kallio who works as a museum director at the Finnish Labour Museum.  The new members of the board are Morten Bo Alstrup from Denmark and Dagmar Kift from Germany.

 

Here is the picture of the new board and former chair taken after the meeting. From the left, Morten Bo Alstrup (Treasurer, Workers' Museum, Denmark), Kalle Kallio (Chairman, The Finnish Labour Museum), Udo Wiesinger (Vice Chairman, Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr, Austria), Peter Ludvigsen (former Chairman, Workers' Museum, Denmark), Dagmar Kift (LWL-Industriemuseum, Germany), Nicholas Mansfield (Secretary, The People's History Museum, UK), Torsten Nilsson (Museum of Work, Sweden). José Gameiro (Museu de Portimão, Portugal) is missing from the picture.

Reusing the Industrial Past

Announcements

Written by Worklab Wednesday, 16 June 2010 12:35

ICOHTEC - The International Committee for the for the History of Technology and TiCCIH - The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage and History are organising a joint conference at Tampere, Finland in 10th -15th of August 2010. The minor partner in the conference is Worklab, the international association of labour museums.

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The meeting will be a joint-conference, and it´s theme is broad enough to cover various approaches.

The programme of the conference will include over 270 presentations in scientific sessions and plenary sessions, business meetings and general assemblies of organising organisations, excursions, social events, such as receptions and the banquet, and possible pre- and post-conference trips.

Visit the website of the conference.

General meeting 2010

General Meetings

Written by Peter Ludvigsen Wednesday, 16 June 2010 12:18

Agenda:

Friday 13. August 2010, 15:30

• Apologies for absence
• Minutes from the latest meeting, 1 November 2008
• Matters arising not on the agenda
•  ICOM application for WORKLABS
• Tampere conference and publications
  a special issue of International Journal of Heritage Studies is in preparation
• Future projects
• Possible future funding bids
• Elections
  Peter Ludvigsen, Jürgen Bönig and Nick  Mansfield come up for election
• Any other question

/Peter Ludvigsen
Chair

NODEM 2010

Call for papers

Written by Hans Uwe Petersen Wednesday, 05 May 2010 13:31

NODEM 2010 -Nordic Digital Excellence in Museums conference from November 24–26 2010.

Call for:
Full Paper Presentations
Project Presentations
Exhibition Proposals

From place to presence
Digital media breaking boundaries between inside, outside and virtual spaces.
One of the most striking features of digital media in museums today is their potential for linking and integrating resources, spaces and users in an abundance of ways. Museums can share content and gain exposure as well as work across online and onsite, users can contribute to knowledge production and choose between different exhibition platforms, and experiences and knowledge can be mediated through a variety of channels.

Read more: NODEM 2010