ACTIVITIES
Conferences
DEMHIST holds conferences at least once a year, in various places. These conferences offer a platform to raise and discuss professional issues. DEMHIST has developed guidelines for hosts and an evaluation form for participants of its meetings.
DEMHIST also keeps its members informed about relevant conferences by other organizations.
ICOM offers grants to young members who want to participate in an international committee meeting such as DEMHIST. (For more information please go to GRANTS)
Guidelines and Evaluation Form
If you wish to organize a DEMHIST meeting, you can find information about the necessary tasks and procedures in our conference guidelines
General Assemblies
The DEMHIST General Assembly takes place once a year at the Annual Conference. It approves the minutes, the reports and the budget of DEMHIST; votes on conference venues and topics as well as on future projects.
Every third year, the General Assembly elects the Board. The next Board Election will take place in 2020.
The DEMHIST General Assemblies follow a published agenda and are documented by the minutes.
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october 2021
04octalldayAmersfoort, the Netherlands, 4th October 2021Sustainability
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Update 2: We are happy to announce that the postponed conference "Historic House Museums for a Sustainable World:
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Update 2: We are happy to announce that the postponed conference “Historic House Museums for a Sustainable World: Challenges and Opportunities” will take place from 4 October 2021 as an online event occurring as a series of webinars including Keynote speakers, online presentations, breakout session discussions and virtual tours over a period of two months. Further details and a Call for Papers will be published shortly.
Update: In light of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and uncertainty regarding travel options until the end of this year, the DEMHIST 2020 Amersfoort Conference has been postponed to 2021.
The DEMHIST 2020 conference Historic House Museums for a Sustainable World: Challenges and Opportunities will be held in Amersfoort, the Netherlands October 5-7 with post conference tours on October 8-9.
Partner: ICOM-Netherlands
For more information please go to the conference website: icom-demhist2020.com
Museums are increasingly aware of the need to become more sustainable. To this end, many museums are already doing some green work and green thinking, thus contributing to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) and to creating a sustainable future. Government and funding bodies are increasingly demanding environmental assessment. As agents of social responsibility we are expected more and more to deal with the results of environmental change such as flooding and drying out and to fulfil our role as a forum for public debate.
In the Work plan for the Paris Climate Change Agreement, 2018 museums are recognised as key sites for climate change education. That means that as museums, we are considered to have great potential to create awareness among visitors, other sectors and our immediate environment. In practice however, the activities that museums develop to become more sustainable are mainly in the field of waste and electricity consumption. The activities to raise awareness are relatively rare. Many museums do not have structural policy regarding sustainability, nor do they monitor their progress. In other words: environmental sustainability is not yet mainstream or systemic within the museum sector. A lack of resources and expertise are obvious obstacles that stand in the way.
The ambitions and challenges are great: less energy, less waste, less water consumption, smarter use of resources and raw materials, more quality in the management and use of the collection, and more and better public participation. It affects every part of our work; it is about our building, collection management, operations, and the relationship with our public. How can we as historic house museums translate these ambitions into practice? How can we deal with the challenges, starting with our historic buildings, which are often far from sustainable to begin with? How can we protect our valuable historic houses from climate change? However, at the same time we must ask ourselves: how can we make use of our great potential as vectors for social and sustainable change?
These and other questions will be posed at our DEMHIST 2020 conference in Amersfoort, organized in conjunction with the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE). During the conference, we will hear experts on sustainability address these issues;, we will examine the challenges; we will visit inspiring examples; and we will see that a lot is possible.
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mon, oct, 2021 - mon, oct, 2021
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Amersfoort, The Netherlands
august 2022
20augalldayPrague, Czech Republic, 20 - 27 August 2022The Power of Museums
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From ICOM Czech Republic webpage:
Following the Advisory Council’s vote on the host city for the ICOM
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From ICOM Czech Republic webpage:
Following the Advisory Council’s vote on the host city for the ICOM General Conference 2022 last June, ICOM and its National Committee in Egypt had started to prepare for the 26th ICOM General Conference in Alexandria. Both parties strived to meet the conditions and requirements for hosting the ICOM General Conference, an event which often attracts more than 3,000 participants and includes 150 sessions and workshops. The General Conference in Alexandria in 2022 was to be the first one in an African and Arab country. Alexandria, as home to the ancient and modern “biblioteca” would have been an attractive venue.
However, after ten months of preparation, ICOM received a letter from the Governor of Alexandria and e-mails from the National Committee ICOM Egypt, both stating that they are not able to organise the General Conference 2022 in Alexandria. The ICOM Executive Board had therefore no option – much to its regret – but to accept this decision and to cease the process.
As the city of Prague, Czech Republic, was the second candidate favoured by the Advisory Council, the ICOM Executive Board therefore took the decision to mandate its National Committee in the Czech Republic to organise the 26th ICOM General Conference in Prague. ICOM Czech Republic has now established an Organising Committee that has begun to work with partners on all levels from local to national and international. ICOM looks forward with pleasure and confidence to holding its General Conference in the Czech capital in 2022.
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sat, aug, 2022 - sat, aug, 2022
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Prague, Czech Republic
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mon, oct, 2002 - wed, oct, 2002
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Amesterdam
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october 2003

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wed, oct, 2003 - fri, oct, 2003
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Lenzburg
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september 2004

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thu, sep, 2004 - sat, sep, 2004
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Berlin
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october 2005

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wed, oct, 2005 - fri, oct, 2005
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Lisbon
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october 2006

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tue, oct, 2006 - fri, oct, 2006
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Valletta
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DEMHIST
august 2007

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mon, aug, 2007 - wed, aug, 2007
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Vienna
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DEMHIST
september 2008

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sun, sep, 2008 - wed, sep, 2008
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Bogotá
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june 2009

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fri, jun, 2009 - wed, jun, 2009
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Stavanger
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april 2010

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wed, apr, 2010 - sat, apr, 2010
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Brno
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november 2010

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tue, nov, 2010 - tue, nov, 2010
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Shanghai
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october 2011

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mon, oct, 2011 - thu, oct, 2011
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Antwerp
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november 2012

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tue, nov, 2012 - fri, nov, 2012
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Los Angeles
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august 2013

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mon, aug, 2013 - sat, aug, 2013
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Rio de Janeiro
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october 2014

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tue, oct, 2014 - fri, oct, 2014
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Compiègne
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october 2015

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mon, oct, 2015 - wed, oct, 2015
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Mexico City
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july 2016

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sun, jul, 2016 - sat, jul, 2016
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Milan
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october 2017

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sat, oct, 2017 - tue, oct, 2017
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London
october 2018
10octalldayBaku, 10-12 October 2018

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wed, oct, 2018 - fri, oct, 2018
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Baku
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DEMHIST
may 2019

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REGISTRATION FORM
Booking for lunches and dinner and payment until 26 April
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thu, may, 2019 - sat, may, 2019
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Guimarães, Portugal
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sun, sep, 2019 - sat, sep, 2019
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Kyoto, Japan
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A key part of the DEMHIST strategy is to encourage and support national groups to provide more easily accessible activities that are relevant to members in those locations, and to increase membership. Our National Groups continue to grow in strength and we now have active groups in Italy, Portugal, Mexico, Brazil, Turkey and in Israel.