The Commission on Culture session
The UBC Commission on Culture (CoC) would
like to invite to discuss the role museums and galleries
play in the modern world in the 8 CoC working session to
be held in St. Petersburg on 6-9 December 2005.
The Role and Value of the Museums in the
modern world. The organizers of the conference are: the
CoC supported by the Saint-Petersburg City Administration
(Committee for External Relations and Tourism, Committee
for Culture), the Leningrad Region Government and the Union
of Russian Museums. The venue was chosen because St. Petersburg
is one of the best recognized cultural centres of Europe
and one of the most significant centres of the Baltic Sea
Region and Northern Europe. It is believed that by creating
a network for sharing experience between the museums within
the UBC will provide extensive possibilities for cultural
development of the region.
The following subjects are to be discussed
at the conference:
- Significance of museums in the contemporary world;
- Specific features of museum management;
- Museum pedagogy and its potential;
- Museums as organizing social and cultural centres;
- Museums and modern art;
- Museums as centres of ecological education;
- Significance of museums in fostering the planetary thinking;
- Cultural heritage preservation issues.
The long-term cultural and historical relations
of St. Petersburg with the countries represented in the
Union of Baltic Cities will make it possible to find new
areas and forms of interaction, sharing experience and international
cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region during the conference.
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