[BCMA] KAG - International Museums Day

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Kamloops Art Gallery
May 9, 2013


Caption: International Museum Day 2012 at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Copyright: (c)Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum
International Museum Day 2013: Museums all over the world have the place of honour


Every year since 1977, International Museum Day is held worldwide sometime around May 18. This year, more than 30,000 museums are getting ready to celebrate the event in around 100 countries on the five continents!

At the Kamloops Art Gallery all visitors can enjoy free admission to the Gallery Saturday, May 18. Germaine Koh: Weather Systems continues in the main galleries and Tara Bauer: Place in Memory is on in The Cube.


The theme: Museums (Memory + Creativity) = Social Change

The theme of the International Museum Day 2013, Museums (Memory + Creativity) = Social Change, aims at showing that the richness of our historical heritage, preserved and displayed by museums, together with the inventiveness and vitality that have characterized the museum sector's action in recent years, are where the strength of museum institutions lies today.

This truly optimistic theme in the form of an equation dynamically gathers several concepts that are essential to define what a museum is today, highlighting the universal nature of those institutions and their positive influence on society.


Activities around the world

Museums take advantage of the International Museum Day to showcase their activities. For instance:

-          In Egypt Children Centre for Civilization and Creativity is offered at the Cairo Children Museum. This seminar on Museum Education Development will be organized to train museum professionals and curators on the principles and techniques of museum education;

-          In Nigeria, objects from the reserves of the National Museum Lagos will be displayed in the museum courtyard on 20 May. The next day, a conference on the IMD theme will be animated by a museum professional, followed by a traditional dance show and a theatre play performed by the museum staff;

-          In Mexico, the Museo de la Luz in Mexico City organizes the reading of tales in the museum's rooms, spectacular demonstrations on the use of lights, a science rally and a conference on the theme "The Scientific Culture in Museums and the Informal Education."



Media Contact:
Margaret Chrumka, Manager of Operations
mchrumka at kag.bc.ca
250-377-2400


Margaret Chrumka
Manager of Operations
mchrumka at kag.bc.ca<mailto:mchrumka at kag.bc.ca>
250-377-2409

KAMLOOPS ART GALLERY
101 - 465 Victoria Street
Kamloops BC  V2C 2A9
250-377-2400
www.kag.bc.ca<http://www.kag.bc.ca/>

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