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Kajsa Hartig

 

A blog about Cultural Heritage and Digital Communication

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Cultural Heritage Connections:Community portal

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The goal of Cultural Heritage Connections is to facilitate a knowledge community on Mutual Cultural Heritage. We offer Dutch and foreign partners access to knowledge and expertise concerning international heritage projects.
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Cultural Heritage Connections brings together experts, projects, and organisations in the field of international heritage cooperation. The emphasis is on mutual cultural heritage: heritage that is shared between two or more countries. It is a platform for information exchange and a documentation centre for projects. The platform offers Dutch and foreign partners access to knowledge and expertise concerning international heritage projects.


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The platform is set up in close collaboration with experts and organisations, related to the mutual cultural heritage field, through CIE Heritage Days that are organised per country. On these days, professionals, with various expertise within the field of cultural heritage, come together to share their ideas and experiences on international heritage cooperation. Their input is available here, at Cultural Heritage Connections.
Cultural Heritage Connections is a growing entity that should be kept up-to-date. That is why we need your help! After all, who are more suitable than the people who are committed to the promotion of international cooperation for the safeguarding of mutual heritage?
The online platform can be consulted from anywhere in the world, by every involved heritage expert. A platform made by the people who work in the field of heritage, and made for the people who work in the same area, will, consequently, grow as a dynamic, multilateral and devoted community.


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Join us at www.culturalheritageconnections.org and at Linkedin


The platform Cultural Heritage Connections.org is managed by the Supporting Institute for International Cultural Policy SICA as part of their Mutual Cultural Heritage Programme. This platform is the result of a multi year project executed by the Centre for International Heritage Activities and is financially supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands through their HGIS Fund.
For further information about the Cultural Heritage Connections website, please contact: gce@sica.nl

Geneva Summer School 2013: Cultural Heritage Law: Past, Present and Future

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The summer school offers an overview of the international and comparative law for the protection of cultural heritage.
The course is structured in two parts. The first part aims to develop the students’ awareness of the evolution of cultural heritage law, its complex relationship with general international law and human rights law, and the different ideological positions of the relevant stakeholders. The goal of the second part of the course is to cover the main substantive themes of cultural heritage law, namely: the protection of cultural property in times of war; the restitution of cultural assets lost as a result of theft, illicit excavations and illicit trade – either from land or underwater sites; the protection of the built heritage and of the human rights associated with the tangible and intangible cultural heritage. In order to offer an up-to-date glance at cultural heritage law, the course will also focus on its relationship with international trade law, intellectual property law, and international investment law and on the issue of dispute settlement.

Walmart destroys Mexico’s cultural heritage

 

26 April 2013/Union solidarity international

The Pyramid of The Sun and Avenue of The Dead, viewed from the top of Pyramid of The Moon, are the symbol of Teotihuacán in Mexico.

Part of the ancient Teotihuacán site, pictured above, is now underneath a Walmart. Walmart destroys Mexico’s cultural heritage for profit. An archaeologist gives her view.


- By Dr Donna Yates
As an archaeologist, I welcome the news that “[t]rade unions in Canada, the United States and Mexico are preparing protests and legal action against the Mexican subsidiary of Walmart” . That $24 million in bribes was allegedly paid by Walmart representatives to built the store at Teotihuacán is sad, but, in hindsight, makes a lot of sense. It takes a lot of gall to wilfully risk a country’s most beloved heritage site and, as it seems, it takes a lot of money too. However, I am sure Walmart felt it was worth it: if only a fraction of the 2.5 million annual visitors to Teotihuacán walk through Walmart’s doors, they would have easily recouped their ‘investment’.
Instead of focusing on corporate financial corruption at Teotihuacán, I would like to discuss corporate heritage corruption. The level of bribery exposed by the New York Times would be outrageous in any context, however this is not just any context, this is Teotihuacán. Teotihuacán was one of the most powerful and influential cultural complexes of the Americas. It was one of the largest cities in the world during its heyday. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, meant to be preserved as the cultural heritage of all humanity.
Now a portion of it is underneath a Walmart.

Louvre Museum Closes as Staff Protests Epidemic of Pickpocketing

 

By Olivia B. Waxman, TIME , April 10, 2013

The world’s most visited art museum is dealing with an influx of unwelcome visitors.
A staff walkout over the rise of pickpockets forced the Louvre in Paris to shut its doors Wednesday, Agence France-Presse reports.
Workers say that thieves have been showing up at the museum in gangs of up to 30 — primarily made up of young Eastern Europeans — and are responsible for incidents of “spitting, insults, threats” and striking employees and visitors.
(PHOTOS: The $500 Million Gardner Museum Heist: Have You Seen These Paintings?)
Staffers “come to work afraid because they find themselves confronted with organized groups of pickpockets who are increasingly aggressive and which include children, who get into the museum free and even when taken in for questioning by police, come back a few days later,” Christelle Guyader, a representative for the network of trade unions Solidaires Unitaires Démocratiques (SUD), told the AFP.
The Louvre did request more police protection late last year and is planning to immediately increase law enforcement presence around the premises, as well as limit access to people already outed as pickpockets, a spokesperson for the museum told the AFP.
Last year, nearly 9.7 million people visited the landmark, best-known as the home of Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/04/10/louvre-museum-closes-as-staff-protests-epidemic-of-pickpocketing/#ixzz2RlWPUGyk

Greek antiquities at the new Museum of Civilisations In Marseille

  by Archaeology newsroom - Tuesday, 16 April 2013

In an exhibition dedicated to the cultures of the Mediterranean, hosted for three years at the Museum of Civilisations from Europe and the Mediterranean (MuCEM) in Marseille, 40 Greek works of art from Athenian museums, such as the Acropolis Museum, the National Archaeological Museum, the Epigraphic Museum, the Byzantine and Christian Museum, as well as the collections of the Archaeological Museum at Heraklion (Crete), and the 25th, the 3rd, and the 15th Ephorates of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities.
The loans of the antiquities are either long-term (April 2013-April 2016) or short-term (April 2013-December 2013 or 2014), as some of the objects will be exhibited throughout the three-year exhibition “The Gallery of the Mediterranean” and others for shorter periods of time. The museum, which will soon open its gates to the public, is located at the entrance to the Old Port of Marseille, and divided in two buildings “floating between water and sky.” The exhibition about the Mediterranean will be hosted on the ground floor of the J4 building of 15,000 m2, and will place the Mediterranean world in perspective with other comparable regions of the globe: the world located around the China Sea (Yellow Sea) or the Gulf of Mexico.
The Mediterranean, though it has never been a homogenous political entity, is nevertheless a basin of specific civilisations, organised around singularities. For this initial presentation, four of these features have been selected at the exhibition.

Greece's first Museum of Underwater Antiquities finds home in Piraeus

 

By Iota Sykka When plans for the cultural revamp of Piraeus’s main coastal zone were first unveiled two years ago, few expected to see results so soon. However, an exhibition that ends today at the Piraeus Port Authority’s Petrini (Stone-built) Warehouse, displaying the studies submitted by architectural firms for the construction of the Museum of Underwater Antiquities – which is a key component of the revamp – shows that things are well under way. The plans also include the construction of a museum about Piraeus and another on immigration mapping the city’s as well as the country’s history in this significant area of social change, the latter of which, however, is still some time away from completion.

Τιμώμενο πρόσωπο… ο Πύρρος

Μια σημαντική ευκαιρία να γνωρίσουμε τον βασιλιά Πύρρο της αρχαίας Ηπείρου μάς δίνει η ΙΒ’ Εφορία Προϊστορικών και Κλασικών μέσα από επιγραφές και ενθυμήματα.

Την Κυριακή 28 Απριλίου, στις 12 το μεσημέρι, θα εγκαινιαστεί στο Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Ιωαννίνων η περιοδική έκθεση «Πύρρος Βασιλεύς Ηγήτωρ. Η Ήπειρος της Μεσογείου και της Οικουμένης», η οποία πραγματοποιείται στο πλαίσιο των «Ελευθερίων». Παράλληλα, στον αύλειο χώρο της ανατολικής εισόδου του μουσείου, θα πραγματοποιηθούν τα αποκαλυπτήρια του γλυπτού «Οπλίτης» που η ελληνίδα γλύπτρια Ναταλία Μελά (σύζυγος του αρχιτέκτονα Άρη Κωνσταντινίδη) δώρισε στο Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο.
Σε πρώτη φάση, η έκθεση θα επικεντρωθεί στο αρχαιολογικό υλικό που ήδη υπάρχει στο μουσείο. Η έκθεση όμως θα βρίσκεται συνεχώς σε εξέλιξη. Η ΙΒ’ Εφορεία εδώ και καιρό βρίσκεται σε συνεχή επαφή με διάφορα μουσεία τόσο της Ελλάδας όσο και του εξωτερικού, όπως της Ιταλίας και της Γαλλίας. Μέχρι στιγμής υπάρχει η σύμφωνη γνώμη από διάφορα μουσεία, όπως του Μουσείου της Ακρόπολης και του Αρχαιολογικού Μουσείου της Νάπολης στην Ιταλία. 

Στο πνεύμα των ημερών

Στην πορεία προς τη γιορτή του Πάσχα, τον τόνο των ηµερών µάς δίνει µια ιδιαίτερη εκδήλωση που θα πραγµατοποιηθείτη Μεγάλη Τετάρτη στο Μουσείο Ελληνικών Λαϊκών Οργάνων Φοίβου Ανωγειανάκη (∆ιογένους1-3), στους Αέρηδες στην Πλάκα. 

Εκεί, στις 9 το βράδυ, ο ηθοποιός ∆ηµήτρης Καταλειφός διαβάζει µε τον δικό του ερµηνευτικό τρόπο αριστουργηµατικά κοµµάτια από διηγήµατα του Αλέξανδρου Παπαδιαµάντη. 

Στην εκδήλωση θα διαβαστούν τρία διηγήματα του Παπαδιαμάντη, «Το μοιρολόγι της Φώκιας», το «Έρως Ήρως» και «Παιδική Πασχαλιά». «Το μοιρολόγι της Φώκιας», που δημοσιεύτηκε το 1908 κι ανήκει στη συλλογή «Πασχαλινά Διηγήματα», θεωρείται από τα κορυφαία όχι μόνο του Παπαδιαμάντη αλλά και γενικότερα της παγκόσμιας λογοτεχνίας. Μια πικρή ιστορία για το θάνατο ενός κοριτσιού που μας αποκαλύπτει τον ιδεολογικό κόσμο του διηγηματογράφου.

Βόλος: Προεδρία στο Ευρωπαϊκό Πολιτιστικό Δίκτυο

Η Ελλάδα θα προεδρεύσει στην πρώτη Γενική Συνέλευση του Ευρωπαϊκού Πολιτιστικού Δικτύου ECTN, που θα γίνει στη Σουηδία 28-30 Απριλίου, στην οποία θα συμμετέχουν οι χώρες Σουηδία, Ιρλανδία, Ουαλία, Ολλανδία, Ισπανία, Φινλανδία, Κύπρος, Βουλγαρία, Ρουμανία, Λετονία.

 Την Ελλάδα στην προεδρία για τα δύο επόμενα χρόνια 2013-2014 θα εκπροσωπεί η Περιφέρεια Θεσσαλίας με πρόεδρο του δικτύου τον κ. Κ. Χαλέβα. Τα θέματα της ατζέντας της πρώτης συνδιάσκεψης που θα συζητηθούν έχουν στόχο τη διεκδίκηση ευρωπαϊκών προγραμμάτων προκειμένου να ωφεληθούν οι φορείς που συμμετέχουν. Μεταξύ άλλων θα συζητηθούν και τα αιτήματα συμμετοχής στο προαναφερόμενο ευρωπαϊκό δίκτυο του Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλίας, της Παγκόσμιας Ομοσπονδίας Πηλιορείτικων Συλλόγων και του Δικτύου Περραιβία, προκειμένου να παρθεί η οριστική απόφαση συμμετοχής τους, με σκοπό τη διεύρυνση του Ευρωπαϊκού Πολιτιστικού Δικτύου ECTN.
Σκοπός της συμμετοχής των προαναφερθέντων φορέων είναι η ανταλλαγή απόψεων και η εφαρμογή καλών πρακτικών προκειμένου να αξιοποιηθεί τουριστικά η πολιτιστική κληρονομιά και να διευκολυνθεί η προσβασιμότητα στις πολιτιστικές αξίες.