Cecomm-2008
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CECOMM - 2008 Program
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Participants of CECOMM-2008
Abstracts of CECOMM-2008
Plenary session Gurgen G. Grigorian Director of the Polytechnical Museum Moscow, Russia.
“Polytechnical Museum and its duty to protect and to popularize the relics and masterpieces of Russian engineering history” 1. Polytechnical Museum itself is a great monument of Russian social history and history of engineering. But nevertheless every day it works spreading knowledge to help many people to understand what is it science, innovations and a greatest value of knowledge. 2. From 1988 Polytechnical Museum initiated a new (not only for Polytechnical Museum, but for all Russian museum media) project. It was a multi aspects activity aimed to involve artifacts concerning the outstanding facts and phenomenon’s of the technological history of Russian into the sphere named “culture”. 3. The aspects of the problem: - Methodological basis for identification the museum artifacts as the relics (theoretical foundations and algoritmization of the identification; - The ethic principals of the cooperative research (cooperation of many museums); - The way for organization the cooperative activity; - What to do not to waste or to lose the results of all the aforesaid, or how to perform “our” invasion into the “culture”. 4. The results for today: - the amount of subjects identified as a relics of the highest value (846). - the amount of museums involved in the project (71). - some subjects – relics of communications (380); - the albums, where the relics were published in two languages (4); - the session of expert council in the Polytechnical Museum (16).
Panel 1 “Collaboration” Lyudmila N. Bakayutova Director of the A. S. Popov Central Museum of Communications Saint-Petersburg, Russia. “Professional collaboration of technical museums in Russia” Science and technology museums in Russia. The growing interest of the Russian state to its cultural heritage, society to its history, and corporations to their roots enables new impulse in the development of museum activities facing challenges of modern society. Association of Science and Technology Museums. The Association of Science and Technology Museums within the Russian Committee of ICOM is non-governmental organization, established in 1988 by the Conference of national science and technology museums, held in the Urals city of Nizhny Tagil. Without exaggeration at present it is the most sustainable and stable body of the ICOM Russia. Communications and Postal Museums. The communications museums form a special group within the Association of Science and Technology Museums. This group includes postal and philatelic museums and expositions, communications museums, radio and television museums, electric communication and space communication museums, exploratoriums, “smart buildings”. The Russian communication and postal museums are distinguished by concepts of formation and replenishment of their collections. On one hand, the communication is considered by the nature of applied technical devices which are divided into mail and electric communications; information transmission by electric signals through wires (wire communication), or (and) radio signals (radio communication). On the other hand, the communication is understood as production industry securing message transmission. However another important problem directly connected with the definition of communication is the identification of the role of information transmission in a certain cultural or social community. Information technologies as subject matter of museum collections. The information technologies are becoming an integral part of cultural domain. The documenting of the process of historical development of information technologies is a new phase in museum design and replenishment of museum collections, especially in telecommunications museums. New museum exhibits require changes in the concept of museum collecting as well as in recording and safekeeping requirements. Summary: Multiple problems of current importance of Russian technology museums are caused by various reasons: "adjustment processes" in the country and in state ministries; imperfect regulatory framework in the museum; revolutionary changes in information technology and communications. These and other imported issues of coordination and methodology of development of science and technology museums in our country curate by the Association of Science and Technology Museums of the “ICOM Russia”.
Sergey A. Grigorenko, Head of Management of PR and mass media of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Post of Russia", Moscow, Russia. “Role of Postal Museums in development of the corporate culture of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Post of Russia””
In 2006 the Post of Russia and the A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications published a brochure "Postage museums: a view from the past to the future". This small book turned to become a resource describing methodology of foundation of postal museums and summarizing experience of existing ones. It appeared due to important changes in postal industry, which in new times have united separate departments in one strong company, where 415 thousand people work now. Postal museums within the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Today 34 postal museums with total area 883 sq. m. function within the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Post of Russia". Their collections number 60 121 museum items. The oldest Postal Museum is the Museum of Moscow Post which is 95 years old. It houses more than 40 thousand museum items, including postal attributes of 18th century – main highlights of the collection. The youngest museum is Chelyabinsk Postal Museum, which was found in March 2007.
The following major areas should be highlighted in the activities of the
regional postal museums:
The history of “Post of Russia” as an important part of Russian culture
The state of Russian Post today
The following audio and video products prepared by the Directorate of Public
Relations and Mass media are assigned to the active funds of postal museums:
Broadening of museum exhibiting All-Russian Competition of Postal Museums "Post of Russia. Connection of times" has become a milestone in the development of postal corporate culture. The contest aims to emphasize the history of development of post in Russia, its modern achievements and prospects of development, to support and improve the corporate culture of the FSUE "Post of Russia", and to initiate new forms of work with museum's audience. The organizer of the Competition is FSUE "Post of Russia" with the participation of the Russian Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM Russia), the Association of Scientific and Technological Museums, and the A.S.Popov Central Museum of Communications. Sophisticated development of postal museums helps to solve at least four important tasks:
- Enrichment and improvement of postal corporate culture;
Aive Küng, Director of the Estonian Postal Museum, Tartu, Estonia.
“Estonian Postal museum and our partners”.
Tatyana E. Мersadikova Main specialist Company “Alt-Soft” Saint- Petersburg, Russia.
“Collections of museums, archives and other institutions of culture and science in single search space. Information collaboration” Since 1991 OJSC Alt-Soft has been engaged in informational support of culture centers. Software and informational complexes introduced in museums, archives, libraries, centers for protection of monuments of history and culture, are working tools for creation of electronic informational resources in these centers. An experimental platform was created for integration of informational resources of various types (electronic encyclopedias, databases of archives, museums, libraries and other centers for protection of monuments) in common search space. The user can make search request and get replies in the unified format from the following informational resources: - Electronic Encyclopedia of Saint Petersburg - Electronic Encyclopedia “Culture of Leningrad Region” - Electronic Encyclopedia “Perm Territory” - Database of Saint Petersburg Central State Archive of cine, photo and audio records - Database of the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow - Database of the Russian State Archive of Cine, Photo and Audio Records, Krasnogorsk - Database “Monuments of Saint Petersburg History and Culture” of the Committee for state control, use and protection of monuments of Saint Petersburg history ad culture - Database of Leningrad Regional State Archive in town of Vyborg (LRSAV) - Database of the Department for Protection and Use of historic and cultural monuments supervised by the Culture Committee of Leningrad region government - Databases of V.V. Mayakovsky Central State Public Library: - “City sculpture of Saint Petersburg at the turn of the centuries (XX-XXI)” - “Petersburg Streets and Buildings described by periodicals” - Database of the State museum “Vyborg Castle” - Database of Rybinsk State Reserve Museum of History and Architecture ad Art The single search point in Russian functions: - On portal Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia titled "RUSART" - Databases of archives, museums, libraries - On portal Encyclopedia “Leningrad region Culture” titled “Single access point»” - On RGALI website titled “RUSART databases of museums, archives, libraries” - On portal Encyclopedia “Perm Territory” titled “РУСАРТ — encyclopedias, databases of libraries, archives, museums
Some information resources are available in English. Now we are working on creating a single search point where questions could be asked in English. Replies will be sent from the following information resources: - Electronic Encyclopedia of Saint Petersburg - Database of Saint Petersburg Central State Archive of cine, photo and audio records - Database of the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow
Alison Taubman BT Connected Earth Curator of the National Museum of Scotland Edinburgh, Great Britain.
“Terminology and Public Access: Making the Connected Earth collections user friendly” The presentation will outline plans for the development of a terminology database for use by both a specialist and general audience. It will examine work carried out to date to create a classification system which both specialist and non-specialist groups can use to access the Connected Earth collections, and then look at plans to expand this to create a thesaurus of telecommunication terms which can be used both as a museum cataloguing tool and as a public search aid to access information on the collections.
Chris Taft Curator of the British Postal Museum and Archive London, Great Britain.
“Terminology Control at the British Postal Museum and Archive”
As a museum community with communication at our core it is vital that we at least are able to effectively tell our users what we have in our collections. It is for this reason that the British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA) in London are helping to lead the museum sector in Britain in managing terminology for object names.
The British Post Office has since its very origins developed its own names for tools and equipment and a specialist ‘jargon’ has evolved. It is important for us managing this history to reflect this element of the past by capturing this jargon while at the same time ensuring it is possible for non-specialist users to explore the collections.
The BPMA is currently making details of more and more of its collections available online, for searching to be really useful however it is important to ensure terminology used is such that researchers can find what they are looking for. In Britain many terminology banks are available but none are specific enough to cover our specialist collection area.
This paper will look at the leading work the BPMA is doing, working alongside the UK’s Museum Documentation Association (MDA) and The British Museum, to create a thesauri of British postal terms. The paper will give a background to the work, explain how the thesauri will work and show how it is structured and can be built upon.
The paper will allow delegates to consider such possibilities for themselves and learn from some of the mistakes made in British museums and archives in the past.
Nina A. Borisova Vice- Director of the A. S. Popov Central Museum of Communications Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
“Prospects of versatile cooperation between telecommunication museums in the age of information technologies” Earlier it was considered that museums are the most conservative part of culture and that they are subject to technological innovations least of all. However, this belief was controverted by information technologies. They entered all areas of museums’ activity, such as account, storage, collecting, exhibiting of collections. They make a basis of business activity of museums: educational, marketing, and advertising. Furthermore, they open prospects to versatile cooperation. In the report there is a short characteristic of how various directions of cooperation in the A.S.Popov Central Museum of Communication are supported by computer and information technology. Possibilities of new technologies that allow to cooperate with environment effectively are described. Some problems interfering creation of united information field of telecommunication museums in Russia are considered. Issues of creation of united information field for telecommunication museums in Europe are mentioned. It is shown that it is impossible to solve terminology and interfaces problems between European telecommunication museums quickly. But there are a number of programs which could be discussed today. For example, thematic virtual exhibitions dedicated to anniversaries or the A.S.Popov Central Museum of Communication virtual program called «Telecommunications in an Objective».
Panel № 2 “Collections” Karl Kronig Vice-Director and Head of Collections of the Museum of Communication Bern, Switzerland.
“Think more, collect less. A new collection strategy for the Museum of Communication Bern (Switzerland)” In the last 10 years the Museum of Communication in Bern has changed from a traditional technology and company oriented museum of the Swiss PTT to a museum focusing on the impact technology has on man and on society. This change was first realized through the topics of the temporary exhibitions. In a second step the permanent exhibitions were also totally renewed. The change obviously has consequences for the collections as well. The proposed report will present the process of developing a new collection strategy for the Museum of Communication in Bern: First step: Focusing the traditional collections and give a clearer definition of the objects to collect with a focal point on the impact and the use of Media. Second step: Integrate and give more weight to the collections of context like the archives of graphic arts, photographs, film, video, sound and printed documents. Third Step: Complete the contextualization of the collection by actively documenting processes and changes in the evolution of Media, which are mostly immaterial phenomena.
Valeriy.M. Krylov Director of the Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps, Saint- Petersburg, Russia.
“Collection of the military communication equipment in the Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps” Since 1965 the Military and Historic Museum of Artillery, Engineering Corps and Signal Corps (MHMAECSC) has had a department of history of signal corps. The foundation of the collection was laid by the Secretary of War D.A. Milyutin, according to whose order in 1863 a pedagogical museum of military educational establishments was created where about a hundred samples of means of communication were exposed. After the civil war that exhibition was recovered as a study cabinet of the military faculty of Moscow Institute of Communications Engineer. In 1943 it served as a base for creation of the Museum for history of communications of the Red Army under the GUSKA. Following inactivation of GUSKA, the museum was transferred to the Military Communications Academy Leningrad). In Leningrad the exhibition opened in 1947 at the Military Communications Academy was not fit for displaying all exhibits transferred from Moscow. Conditions of storing the equipment withdrawn from the exhibition were poor, which resulted in loss of about 450 units of equipment. In 1958 the Central Museum of Soviet Army (Moscow) and A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications (Leningrad) received over 130 units of museum relics. In 1962 – 65 the remaining equipment was transferred to Artillery Historical Museum which got its contemporary name on May 1, 1965. Today the department exhibition displays 2377 museum items, out of which over two hundred are of special value. In total, museum funds contain over 3500 exhibits having relation to history of military communications. The most valuable exhibits include an exact copy of the world`s first electromagnetic telegraph device invented by Shilling, and the world`s first pra-receiver invented by A.S. Popov, and about 200 artefacts of science and technology. The exhibition is based on authentic samples of communications equipment that were in the inventory of the Red and Soviet Army, war decorations and documents of communication soldiers, banners of communication units, military trophies. Exhibits of the post-war period also contain unique items: - station of the world`s first military cellular communication network-“Granite”, the world`s first personal computer Electronica T3-29, the world`s first portable satellite communication stations and others.
Galina P. Zakrevskaya Director of the Central Museum of Railway Transport of Russia Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
“History of Russian Railway Communication in Collection of the Central Museum of Railway Transport of Russia” It is common knowledge that communications is an essential in management of such a complex mechanism as the rail transport industry is. The collection of communications equipment of the Central Museum of Railway Transport of Russia, which evolved during 19th-20th centuries, allows us to track most important inventions in the history of development of domestic rail connection. The museum was founded in 1813 in the Corps of Engineers at the Institute of Communications, where basic acquisition of museum collection was carried out. Now the collection houses more than hundred items. It consists mainly of original samples and represents different types of devices such as telegraph, telephone and radio, which were used on the railways of Russia. The collection is divided into three sections: 1. Telegraph; 2. Phone; 3. Radio. 1. The telegraphic section of the collection is the earliest, as it dates back to the first third of the 19th century. It includes more than 60 original telegraph apparatus and instruments. 2. The collection of telephone equipment of the Central Museum of Railway Transport of Russia numbers more than forty items and reflects specifics of railway telephone system. Many of these items are museum’s highlights. 3. A collection of railway radio communication equipment is not that numerous, it includes about 10 items. Most of them appeared in the museum soon after World War the 2-d. Acquisition of collections of railway communications equipment still goes on as the staff of the museum is in constant contact with various units of the railways, manufacturers, St. Petersburg University of Communications and simply amateurs of rail transport.
Dunja Majnarić Radošević Head of Philately Section at the HT Museum (Post and telecom museum) Zagreb, Croatia.
“The Universality of a Museum Object”
According to the last year's ICOM suggestion of celebrating the International Museum Day under the title "Museums and the Universal Heritage" we prepared the exhibition under the title "Universality of a museum object". The topic includes the museum object not only as an acquired thing in a Museum, not only as the original, " the gold backing" expressing certain time and space, but as an actual object extremely rich in possibilities of conveying countless messages. To emphasize this idea we decided to display only one museum object, as tiny and fragile as possible, so we made the exhibition with one postal stamp. In a circle of the exhibition room we exposed it and during eight days we had the target group workshops around our central object. The result of each workshop was supposed to be the constructive element of the final exhibition. Every day we were writing the diary of the activities around our exposed object in the Museum, and it was shown on "T-portal", the most visited portal in Croatia, under the title "Building the Exhibition". We expected the reactions to the Portal as well.
We've chosen the stamp "Primoštenski vinogradi / Primošten vineyards", a beautiful stamp with a lot of meanings that enabled us an easier work. The object was interpreted in three levels: - as a motif of a stamp (the Primošten vineyards are going to be placed to the UNESCO list of World protected heritage) - as a stamp in a postal service - as a museum object. At each level there was organized one round table that included the conversation of the experts concerning that special level. Besides, there were ten workshops dealing with our central object. The exposed stamp was the inspiration of painting and writing to the kindergarten children, as well to the children in elementary and high schools, it was the starting point of lectures, debates and expert conversations. The results of all this events were the constructive elements of the exhibition that itself asked the visitors to comment the exhibits, thus each further visitor had the opportunity to be included in the exhibition. Among all this activities the element of museum acquisition was included as well, that makes this report adaptable to the main topic of the CECOMM 2008.
Bianca Gendreau Curator and planning of the Canadian Postal Museum Ottawa, Canada.
“Collecting for the Future” The best way to know a museum is through its collections. The museum mandate and mission are the starting point to a detailed and coherent intellectual rationale around which collecting activities can mobilize. With a strategy in place, museums are equipped to fulfill their responsibilities to the integrity of the material that have been entrusted to them, and ensure that future collecting is done selectively, intelligently, and precisely.
The Canadian Postal Museum is embarked on an important renewal of its main exhibition halls, a major project planned to be completed by 2011. Our plan is to expand our present mandate. The notion of the “post” will be integrated into the broader subject of communication.
This presentation will look at how we will define our collections strategy for the new museum. Taking into account the collection’s history and its national obligations, what will be our collecting intentions in the future? The Postal Museum will be faced with an interesting challenge of how to integrate our collection aims with the institution’s research and exhibition interests.
David Brand Conservation Architect of the Norwegian Telecom Museum Oslo, Norway.
“Telecommunication in Norway – a conversation plan” In the early 1990’s the Norwegian Government decided that all public owned industries should document their history, in one form or another. As one of the first to respond to this challenge, the Norwegian Telephone Company initiated work on a conversation plan already in 1996. The aim of this plan was to ensure the preservation of a preservation of representative selection of buildings and technical installations documenting the development of telecommunication in Norway from about 1850 to present. At the time, the Norwegian Telephone Company, soon to become Telenor, owned more than 5000 buildings and installations spread over the length and breadth of the country. An initial list over the different categories of building types and functions was drawn up to ensure a representative selection. This ranged from large administrative buildings and mountain top radio towers to small telephone exchanges and even public telephone boxes. Through archival research, field trips and discussions with relevant employees and pensioners, a first list was made. This was pretended to Telenor’s broad of directors who accepted our proposal, with a few minor changes, in 1997. From the outset our working group included representatives form Telenor, the Directorate for Cultural Heritage and the Norwegian Telecom Museum. This was to ensure that the conversation plan was well anchored within the system. An important aspect of the project is a guaranteed annual budget which ensures management of the conversation plan. Being the first of it’s kind with objects of different types and condition spread throughout the country, it was necessary to create new methods and routines in order to manage this unique conversation plan. Most important was the maintenance of the authenticity and integrity of each object within it’s original environment. Moving everything to an open-air museum was never an option. Instead we rely on local representatives, often retires telecom employees, to keep an eye on objects in their area. As many of the buildings and installations are no longer in daily use, we also seek to cooperation with local museums. The Norwegian Telecom Conversation Plan is now ten years old. The first list of protected objects is not static and is renewed every five years. This enables us to add interesting items which have been overlooked or are of newer date. Also objects can be taken off the list in extreme cases, such as vandalism, or where a better example becomes available. This flexibility is essential if our group of buildings and installations is to be representative for the future. The last ten years has given us a lot of new experience with setbacks and triumphs. We have now entered a new faze as most of the objects are now restored and we are now striving to reach a broader public through the media and local participation with informative open days. A wealth of information is being published on the internet and in our exhibitions.
Nina A. Borisova Vice- Director of the A. S. Popov Central Museum of Communications
“Collecting of modern telecommunication devices” Today the border between various fields of knowledge, sciences and technologies is being erased. This tendency touched upon telecommunication museums as well. A basic purpose of telecommunications has always been transferring information over a distance. Information technologies penetrated into telecommunications on the boundary of the 20-21st centuries and today everybody knows a new abbreviation ICT - infocommunication technologies. Accurately divided concepts (for example, mail and electric communication) and one-functional user devices, (telegraph, phone, radio, the TV) gradually disappear from use. In what collection should a mobile phone, capable to work as a radio and a TV set be included, or very small modem which is less than a pin head? And what should we do with faceless grey boxes which work only with software? Is preservation of the modern hard- and software the task of a telecommunication museum? How should funds in a telecommunication museum be renewed? In the report a new sight at the decision of the tasks given is offered. Terminological and conceptual problems of collecting modern telecommunication devices are considered as well.
Panel №3 “Market of News” Roger Münch Director of the German Newspaper museum Saarland, Germany.
“Communicate now! A new Communication Museum in Saarland/Germany” The new Communication Museum, not yet named, which is currently under development in Saarland (Western Germany near the French border) is based upon the collection of the former ‘VSE-Elektromuseum Illingen’, now owned by an energy provider called “energis”. Nevertheless it’s in no sense a company museum. This collection includes an enormous variety of exhibits concerning the history of mass communication and the usage of electricity. Our new museum will be located in a former supermarket building which guarantees the necessary exhibition space (nearly 800 square meters).
The aim of that project is the realization of a museum as a place of education and experience – suitable for visitors of all ages – to support the understanding for communication in all its form and the related techniques. The museum shall be a living museum with a huge spectrum of educational programs especially for school classes. Despite this visitor-orientated disposition the scientific preparation of communication history for the exhibition is self-evident.
The museum defines itself as a mixture between a technical museum and a science-center; the visitors shall be able to actively experience the exhibition due to interactive devises and ‘hands-on’- stations. This allows the visitors not only to see the exhibits, but to touch, to feel them and to use them in order to understand its usage.
The museum takes all aspects of communication into account, even unexpected aspects of this subject such as Indian smoking signals or the language of gestures.
The possibility of cooperating with the established communication museums in Europe will help to improve the exhibition further; a foundation will support the work of the museum.
The museum can be used for events, conferences or conventions as well. In the end the museum itself shall be a place of communication not only between the museum and the visitors but between museum visitors themselves.
Chris Taft Curator of the British Postal Museum and Archive London, Great Britain.
“Current Work at the British Postal Museum and Archive”
This short paper will explore the current work of the British Postal Museum & Archive and it current development. The British Post Office was behind the most radical developments in postal reform in the entire world and the BPMA reflects this history. It is currently working to ensure this story is told and this paper will comment on some of the ways this is being done.
Jacob Messerli Director of the Museum of Communication Bern, Switzerland.
“Stamps are cool. The new permanent stamp exhibition at the Museum of Communication in Bern (Switzerland)” At CECOMM 2006 in Copenhagen I presented a paper with the title “Who is the audience and how do we reach it? Planning a new permanent exhibition on stamps”. The main goal of the complete renewal of our stamp exhibition was making it more attractive for non-philatelists and thus reach larger audiences than we did before. The proposed paper is a sequal to the one of 2006. In the meantime the exhibition is open to the public for more than a year. The paper will present the exhibition and discuss our experiences as well as visitor’s response to it. A one year’s operating experience shows that we have reached our goals quite well.
Tatyana S. Vasilieva Head of the New ICT Exposition Department of the A S. Popov Central Museum of Communications Saint- Petersburg, Russia. Nina A. Borisova Vice- Director of the A. S. Popov Central Museum of Communications Saint- Petersburg, Russia.
“A new interactive exposition in the A. S. Popov Central Museum of Communication – what does it mean to Russia?” If we take a look at the history of the first Russian natural-scientific museums and to the teaching methods of physics existed earlier, we will see that demonstration of technical collections and scientific achievements has been quite wide spread in Russia. Unfortunately, revolutions, wars and perestroyka, that took place in the 20-th century stood in the way of collecting fruits from a tree of scientific and technical knowledge popularization, a tree planted more than two hundred years ago. As a result, today in Russia we have very few technical museums and we have no science centers. They began appearing in different parts of the world in last quarter of the 20th century, but this process did not involve Russia because of economic problems we had. To cut a long story short, old traditions died, however the new ones were not born. It is necessary to make local and state bodies financing programs in sphere of culture, science and education pay attention to a very important potential object of financing. On February, 15th, 2008 in the A.S.Popov Central Museum of Communication a formal opening of a scientific interactive exposition «Physical bases of telecommunication» took place. It was organically put into historical museum expositions, having taken a place between « History of Postal Service» exposition and an exposition devoted to the first types of electric communication. Electrostatics, electromagnetism, radio-waves, sound and light – these are the main issues which allow to understand the value of science in our life, what telecommunications mean in an overall picture of the world, as well as understand how the first means of communication were developed. This project is one of "first signs", an example of the complex approach to introduction of interactivity into exposition of a technical museum. The exposition opened is full of interactive exhibits. Some of them were bought in Germany, some - in Finland, some were developed in Russia. This project is a kind of a model for domestic manufactures (how to produce anti-vandal and reliable exhibits). «Physical bases of telecommunication» exposition gives great opportunities to cooperate with schools and universities.
Natalia E. Bruckmuller, Head of Marketing and PR Department at the A. S. Popov Central Museum of Communications, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
Project “Baltic Communication” The A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications presents a new project titled “Baltic Communication” aimed at compliance with the general program for establishment of a creative dialogue between cultures of the Baltic region. This project is intended to be a cultural exchange and cultural representation, and is planned on being held as a regular event every 3 years, triennially, on the non commercial basis. The aim is to enlarge interest of different categories of visitors of communication museums, including specialists in communications, designers, architects, collectors, jewelers, artists, students and children. Project tasks: Creation of mobile exhibitions for exchange or joint demonstration within the limits of the Baltic region. Our plans are that in the future exhibitions will move and take place in museums and exhibition halls of the North-western region of Russia and Baltic countries, and that they will be updated and complemented with new works of decorative and applied arts supplied by participants from these countries, forming a big joint regional project of movable exhibitions under the common title “Baltic communication”. The A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications offers arrangement of exhibitions as: originals, media projects, virtual art projects, photo exhibitions, as well joint art events and master classes. Sections of Baltic Communication projects: 1) Traveling exchange theme exhibitions related to history of the post, telegraph, telephone, radio, evolution of means of communication. 2) In 2008, the CMC offers to arrange in honor of A.S. Popov`s 150th anniversary, in cooperation with Kotka Local History Museum, academic readings at the Institute of Finland located in St.-Petersburg and a séance of amateur radio communication from the museum exposition, in honor of the remarkable event, salvation of Finnish fishermen in 1900, due to the use of A.S. Popov radio. 3) Travelling exchange exhibitions devoted to contemporary art in the traditional museum, including: Mailart, Postart, Post games. Exhibitions “Mailartissimo”, “Postart” and “Post Games”, laid the main stone in the foundation of interesting projects of movable exhibitions in the field of communication titled “Baltic Communication”. We hope to cooperate with all of you in this or the other project and we are waiting for your feedback with proposals. Looking forward to effective programs! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||