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21st Century Museum: New Public Culture Space
Publishing Activities of Contemporary Art Museums Seminar
From 13 to 18 May, 2002, the Hermitage hosted a new seminar of the program
organized by it with the financial support of the Open Society Institute
(Soros Foundation) for 25 museums from North-West Russia. The program
is devised to develop and use the Hermitage as a training center for Russia's
professional museum community.
From 13 to 16 May, 2002, the seminar ''21st Century Museum: New Public
Culture Space'' was held. Lectures, discussions, workshops and master classes
were organized to introduce museums' representatives to the traditional
and new methods of museum education. The topics included general and thematic
tours, special tours for VIP visitors and programs for a temporary exhibition
such as information support (tours, lectures, audio players, booklets,
CD-ROMs) and attendant events (discussions, meetings, talks, celebrations,
conferences).
On 17 and 18 May, 2002, the seminar ''Publishing Activities of Contemporary
Art Museums'' took place with the participation of the German Institute
of Goethe in St. Petersburg, Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation)
and CEC International Partnership (US). This was an addition to the training
seminar program. Representatives of the leading publishing houses of Germany
and the United States, independent art publishers, editors, designers,
translators and other specialists attended the event. Discussion centered
around the contemporary publishing activities of Russian museums and publishers
of museum- and art-related books. The seminar was also devised as an incentive
for new international publishing projects and Russian museums' shortcut
to the international book market.
Presentations addressed marketing and financing of museums' publishing
programs, finding of sponsors, legal aspects of museums' publishing activities
and their cooperation with independent publishers of museum-related books.
Participants were introduced to the work of contemporary publishers, editors,
book designers, photographers and translators.
Seminars will be continued in the autumn of 2002.
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In the seminar
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