Agenda: Friday 13. August 2010, 15:30 Apologies for absence Minutes from the latest meeting, 1 November 2008 Matters arising not on the agenda ICOM application for WORKLABS Tampere conference and publications a special issue of International Journal of Heritage Studies … Continue reading →
Worklab’s General Meeting was held in Tampere 13 August 2010. The Minutes will be online soon. Peter Ludvigsen resigned the board after being the Chairman of Worklab since 1997. The new chairman is Kalle Kallio who works as a museum … Continue reading →
Minutes of WORKLAB General Meeting, Lenin Museum, Tampere, Finland, 13.8.2010 In attendance – Peter Ludvigsen (DK) Chair, Nick Mansfield (UK) Secretary Present – Morten Almstrup (DK), Rowan Brown (UK), Juergen Boenig (D), Henning Grelle (DK), Achim Dresler (D), Rita Muller … Continue reading →
Estonian National Museum is happy to announce, that from 14.-16. April took place in Tartu international conference „Transforming Culture in the Digital Age“. The initial call of the conference invited professionals of different heritage institutions – museums, libraries and archives, … Continue reading →
Workers’ Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark Temporary exhibition April 24th – August 15th 2010 Since the 1960s, Erik Hagens has consistently, and with great social engagement, drawn and painted pictures of today’s people, living in a world characterized by pollution, consumerism and … Continue reading →
The committee’s decision was motivated by the success story of the museum, the relevance of its theme and the extent of its educational programme to the benefit of the local community. The Portimão Museum housed in a former sardine canning … Continue reading →
CALL FOR ARTICLES Class is not dead! Many people are actively using working class heritage as a resource to reflect on the past, reassess the present, and plan for the future. At the beginning of the 21st century there is … Continue reading →
Dear members of WORKLAB During 2008 UNESCO asked the national Heritage Agencies to evaluate the existing tentative list for the World Heritage list and at the same time find possibilities for new proposal for the tentative list in Denmark. The … Continue reading →
to form a new ICOM International Committee: Labour, work and social history in the industrial period Dear colleague, We are writing to ask if you would support an application to ICOM to set up a new committee of museums dealing … Continue reading →
Museum de Portimão, Portimão, Portugal Saturday 1 November 2008 Present: Jan-Anders Dam-Nielsen, Norwegian Industrial Workers’ Museum, Rjukan, Norway José Gameiro, Museum of Portimão, Portugal Kalle Kallio, Finnish Labour Museum, Tampere, Finland Peter Ludvigsen, Workers’ Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark Nick Mansfield, People’s … Continue reading →
