WORKLAB – International Association of Labour Museums – will meet in July. Our next meeting will be part of ICOM General Conference, the biggest museum event in the world (3-9 July 2016, Milan, Italy). General conference has plenty of seminars, best speakers and thousands of museum professionals – in the wonderful city of Milan!

CIMUSET (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Science and Technology) is organising a very interesting part of the program under the question “What role for science, technology and industry in cultural landscapes?”. WORKLAB and our local member organisation MUSIL (Museum of Industry and Labour of Brescia) are co-organising a session in this CIMUSET part of the program. Our session “Work and Industry in the Heritage of Modern Landscapes” will be organised Wed 6^th July at 14.00-18.00 with eight interesting presentations. You can see titles of presentations here:

Work and Industry in the Heritage of Modern Landscapes 14.00-18.00 (at MiCo)

Scene setting from the chair

Kalle Kallio
WORKLAB President | Finnish Labour Museum, Tampere, Finland
Paper presentations

Indrani Bhattacharya, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway – Dream, development, promotion and integration in the cultural landscape
Chao-Shiang Li, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Industrial heritage making in Taiwan: the hybrid landscape of modernity and colonial narrative
Veronica Ortega Ortiz, Autonomous University of Hidalgo, Pachuca, Mexico
Semiotic and ethnographic approachment to industrial heritage
Jana Golombek & Torsten Meyer, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, Bochum, Germany
The industrial heritage of the Anthropocene
Scene setting from the chair

Renè Capovin, Head of project and research area, MUSIL, Museum of Industry and Labour, Brescia, Italy
Paper presentations

Kalle Kallio, The Finnish Labour Museum, Tampere, Finland
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Labour heritage in Tampere
Christopher Burgess, People’s History Museum, Manchester, United Kingdom
What future for museums of and for the people?
Kift Dagmar, LWL-Industriemuseum, Bochum, Germany
Landscape with people. The “Heritage-isation” of the Ruhr area
Bruno De Corte, Independent Historian, Industrial Archaeologist, Antwerp, Belgium
Integrating the industrial landscape through the regional narrative – The heritage of industry and labour and the landscape in the Rupel area
Closing Words by the New President of CIMUSET

You can find much more information about the conference from conference websites. Check the whole program, especially CIMUSET sessions! Registration must be done at the ICOM Milano 2016 website:
http://network.icom.museum/icom-milan-2016/

When you have registered yourself, please visit the CIMUSET page and register there as well. This second registration is necessary to participate program with CIMUSET especially Social Dinner July 6^th at 20.00 and Off-Site meeting on Thu 7^th July. On Thursday, we will visit together to Villaggio Crespi d’Adda, which is a late 19th century perfect workers’ village and UNESCO World Heritage site. Besides Villaggio Crespi, we will visit Taccani Hydroelectric powerplant and Museum of the Hydroelectric power at Cedegolo, run by MUSIL. You can find the form to register at:
http://network.icom.museum/cimuset/cimuset-2016/registration/

WORKLAB is also organising a social meeting point on Tuesday evening 5^th July at The National Museum of Science and Technology. This fantastic museum is open for the participants of the General Conference whole evening (18.30 – 23.30). Inside the museum, our meeting will be held in the Falck hall that houses the machineries of an old steel factory. It is number 40 in the museum map and can be found in the floor -1. How you can get there? When you have entered the museum, please take the nearest stairs and go done, walk forward and go downstairs again. There you can find the Falck hall with wonderful museum professionals from Worklab museums. We promise to be there between 19-21: it is a great opportunity to network and meet colleagues from labour museums in Milan! Museum map:
http://www.museoscienza.org/english/visiting/pdf/museum-map.pdf

Hope to see you in Milan!