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)
Conference Guidelines
If you wish to organize a DEMHIST meeting, you can find information about the necessary tasks and procedures in our conference guidelines
Conference application form 2024
If you are interested in hosting the DEMHIST 2024 conference, please read the guidelines and complete the application form
Proposals will be accepted until October 13 2023.
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september 2024
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House Museums at the Crossroads: How Do We Empower Social Change?A joint conference from DEMHIST, ICOM MPR,
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House Museums at the Crossroads: How Do We Empower Social Change?
A joint conference from DEMHIST, ICOM MPR, ICOM Georgia and Tbilisi Museums Union
Historic House Museums around the globe are guardians of historical and cultural legacies, local stories, and memories. However, we envision such institutions evolving to also play a vital role in catalysing social change in our rapidly changing world. How can house museums respond to the task of engaging with their communities? How do we partner and collaborate to drive transformative progress? What opportunities and threats do we face in forging common bonds and interests to empower social change?
This inclusive conference welcomes your experience, whether you are a house museum professional or work in another related field no matter the size of your museum.
Submit a proposal to share your work through our open call for papers, posters, workshops, and more!
Conference website: https://icom-georgia.mini.icom.museum/en/demhist-2024/
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september 25, 2024, - september 29, 2024,
Location
Tbilisi, Georgia
october 2005
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october 12, 2005, - october 14, 2005,
Location
Lisbon
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DEMHIST
october 2006
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october 10, 2006, - october 13, 2006,
Location
Valletta
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DEMHIST
august 2007
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august 20, 2007, - august 22, 2007,
Location
Vienna
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DEMHIST
september 2008
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september 21, 2008, - september 24, 2008,
Location
Bogotá
Organizer
DEMHIST
june 2009
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june 19, 2009, - june 24, 2009,
Location
Stavanger
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DEMHIST
april 2010
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april 21, 2010, - april 24, 2010,
Location
Brno
Organizer
DEMHIST
november 2010
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november 9, 2010, - november 9, 2010,
Location
Shanghai
Organizer
DEMHIST
october 2011
Time
october 17, 2011, - october 20, 2011,
Location
Antwerp
Organizer
DEMHIST
november 2012
Time
november 6, 2012, - november 9, 2012,
Location
Los Angeles
Organizer
DEMHIST
august 2013
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august 12, 2013, - august 17, 2013,
Location
Rio de Janeiro
Organizer
DEMHIST
october 2014
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october 7, 2014, - october 10, 2014,
Location
Compiègne
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DEMHIST
october 2015
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october 19, 2015, - october 21, 2015,
Location
Mexico City
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DEMHIST
july 2016
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july 3, 2016, - july 9, 2016,
Location
Milan
Organizer
DEMHIST
october 2017
Time
october 14, 2017, - october 17, 2017,
Location
London
october 2018
10octalldayBaku, 10-12 October 2018
Time
october 10, 2018, - october 12, 2018,
Location
Baku
Organizer
DEMHIST
may 2019
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REGISTRATION FORM
Booking for lunches and dinner and payment until 26 April
Bank transfer proof must be sent to the
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may 2, 2019, - may 4, 2019,
Location
Guimarães, Portugal
september 2019
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september 1, 2019, - september 7, 2019,
Location
Kyoto, Japan
october 2021
04octalldayOnline, 4th October 2021Sustainability
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UPDATED 07/07/21: Registration for the DEMHIST 2021 online conference “Historic House Museums for a Sustainable World: Challenges
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UPDATED 07/07/21: Registration for the DEMHIST 2021 online conference “Historic House Museums for a Sustainable World: Challenges and Opportunities” is now open!
To register please follow this link: https://www.icom-demhist2021.com/page/693216
DEMHIST, at its discretion, is making a limited number of complementary registrations to the conference available for ICOM members and students from category 3 and 4 countries. Check the ICOM categorization here, to find out if your country qualifies. For more information, please send an email with the subject line “complimentary registration inquiry” to Remko Jansonius at secretary@demhist.icom.museum
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ORIGINAL: The DEMHIST 2021 online conference Historic House Museums for a Sustainable World: Challenges and Opportunities will hold sessions starting October 4. It will include keynote speaker sessions, panels, discussions and the DEMHIST General Assembly as well as virtual tours of sites and historic house museums in the Netherlands. A full schedule will be posted on the conference website
Partners and Sponsors: ICOM-Netherlands, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE), Dutch Culture, Mondriaan Fund.
For more information please go to the conference website: www.icom-demhist2021.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 (SDGs) 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 drought, and to fulfil our role as a forum for public debate. We believe that despite the Covid-19 Pandemic and its devastating effect on personal, public, political, economic and cultural life over this past year it is important to also keep looking beyond it. Sustainability remains even more relevant for the future of society and museums alike. As museums and museum professionals, we all have an important role to play in building a more peaceful, equal, and sustainable future.
In the Workplan 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? And can responses to the Covid-19 pandemic be a guide in the right direction? Since our plans and habits have been disrupted, we have had to find new and ways of working, we have had to explore new tools and revisit traditional ones to reach our audiences and continue engaging with their diverse communities. How can we make this efforts and capacities sustainable to support community resilience and an effective recovery during and after the Covid-19 crisis?
These and other questions will be posed at our DEMHIST 2021 Online Conference, 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.
Time
october 4, 2021, - october 4, 2021,
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Online
march 2022
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The Call for Papers for the DEMHIST sessions at ICOM Prague 2022 is now open.
We will have two paper panels that will be presented as hybrid sessions:
* The power of
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The Call for Papers for the DEMHIST sessions at ICOM Prague 2022 is now open.
We will have two paper panels that will be presented as hybrid sessions:
* The power of Historic House Museums
* House Museums and Risk Management
For further information about the paper sessions, please attend our WEBINAR on March 14.
Please follow the submission instructions on the conference website:
https://guarant.eu/icom2022/committee-meetings/
Important: Submission deadline is 31 March 2022
Please note that presenters need to pay conference fees as per registration instructions on the conference website.
Time
march 7, 2022, - march 31, 2022,
august 2022
20augalldayPrague, Czech Republic, 20 - 27 August 2022The Power of Museums
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Prague, capital of the Czech Republic and a magnificent open-air museum, will welcome the 26th ICOM General Conference
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Prague, capital of the Czech Republic and a magnificent open-air museum, will welcome the 26th ICOM General Conference in the week of 20–28 August 2022.
Museum professionals from around the world will put forward the topics and set the direction of the museum sector for the next three years at least.
We will be interested in the strength, position and capacity of museums in building a free, democratic and educated society, reactions of museums to the challenges and needs of the 21st century; and the ability to cope with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, both societal and economic.
The results of the search for a new definition of “museum” will be presented at ICOM Prague 2022.
The official conference website is https://prague2022.icom.museum/ .
Time
august 20, 2022, - august 27, 2022,
Location
Prague, Czech Republic
october 2023
22octalldayBelgrade, Serbia, 22-27 October, 2023 Remembrances of Things Lost
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The conference “Remembrances of Things Lost: triggering the memory of the historic house through loss (and regain)” will
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The conference “Remembrances of Things Lost: triggering the memory of the historic house through loss (and regain)” will be held at the Yugoslav Film Archive and will include many offsite house and museum visits.
The theme of the conference is the role of the private (family-held) or state sector house museum when it comes to unveiling and securing the memory of permanent loss due to war, state confiscation, colonialist actions and more. What is different yet at the same time, common denominators worldwide for historic houses when it comes to keeping the fire of remembrance current and important in the present time? What are the means to keep the fire of remembrance alive? How can historic house museums save their lost history which is embedded in the walls and contents of a home? Is the physical non-existence of the memory-holder i.e. objects so important that they cannot be replaced by a mere narrative or a copy? Can we all worldwide benefit from the use objects to trigger the memory and in that manner, keep stories alive even upon exiting the historic house? What happens when those objects are no longer in the house? What are we choosing to remember and what to forget? On the one hand, questioning the selected memory – is it still corresponding with the audience, or does it respond to community concerns? On the other hand, the importance of curating the forgotten, when the message of the forgotten is maybe more important to be closely investigated today and can help in healing the community.
For more information: www.belgrademhist.com
Partners and Sponsors: ICOM-Serbia, DEMHIST, Ministry of Culture of The Republic of Serbia
Time
october 22, 2023, - october 27, 2023,
Location
Belgrade, Serbia
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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.