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 →
WORKLAB General meeting, Nov. 1, 2008, Museu de Portimão, Portugal. Agenda 1. Minutes from the General Meeting in Steyr, 2005 2. Economy 3. Programme 2008/09 a. Establishing of a new international ICOM committe: WORKLAB – Labour- and Social History Museums … Continue reading →
29th October 09.30: Participants welcome and documentation delivery 10.00: Opening session PANEL 1: Moderator: Isabel Victor, Director of the Work Museum Michel Giacommetti 10.30: The Workers Museum, Peter Ludvigsen, Director of the Workers’ Museum Copenhagen/Denmark 11.00: Portimão, Territory and Identity, … Continue reading →
in Freiberg, Germany 30th August – 5th September 2009 The congress theme “Industrial Heritage, Ecology and Economy” is aiming at these close connections between environmental, economical, technical, social and historical questions of industrial heritage in our modern world. It should … Continue reading →
WORKLAB conference in PORTIMÃO, Portugal 29.-31. OCT. 2008 Dear colleagues in WORKLAB. The Next WORKLAB conference will take place in the newly opened Museum of Portimão 29.-31.OCT. 2008. The museum – situated in a former fish canning factory – will … Continue reading →
