The Baltic Museology Summer School (BMS) – 2013

04/11/2013

The theme for BMS-2013 is “Heritage and community. The role of museums”. “Society of Promotion of Museology in the Baltics” invites interested persons to apply for participation in the BMS-2013. Applications from Lithuanians or Estonians are being accepted by the respective Ministries of Culture, in the time frame determined by each Ministry. Application deadline is 30th April, 2013. More www.bms.edu.lv/

6–7 June 2013 – WE ARE MUSEUMS – a 2-day event for professionals of culture and innovation

03/27/2013

International conference is for people who believe that the power of innovation and creativity can help museums grow. Place: Contemporary Art Center (SMC) in Vilnius (Lithuania).
More information and registration at conference website www.wearemuseums.com

4–5 April 2013 – Hack4LT

03/25/2013

The first cultural heritage and digital humanities orientated hackathon in Lithuania inspired by EUROPEANA (the biggest multi-lingual online collection of digitized cultural heritage) and DARIAH (Digital Research Infrustructure for Arts and Humanities) and organized by Vilnius University Faculty of Communication and Vilnius University Library. More www.kf.vu.lt/en/hack4lt

3rd EuropeanaPhotography partners Plenary meeting and Aggregation workshop held in Athens

03/22/2013

All EuropeanaPhotography partners met on March 13, 14 and 15, 2013 in Athens for the 3rd Plenary meeting and the Aggregation workshop, where Lithuanian Museums’ Centre for Information, Digitisation and LIMIS was represented by administrator, responsible for International Relations Viktorija Jonkutė and system engineer Ernestas Adomaitis.

Lithuanian Integral Museum Information System (LIMIS)

03/21/2013

LIMIS is the Lithuanian Integral Museum Information System that would enable to create common digital content of national cultural heritage by digitising information about unique and valuable cultural heritage objects, art and literary works, and information about the most significant historical and social phenomena. It will also make it possible to accumulate and preserve such information, and to present it to the society in the electronic space.
From 2012 year end the portal www.limis.lt is available for users. The main function of the portal is to share digital images of museum exhibits, their audio and video files, as well as files on meta-data. More www.limis.lt >

Public Europeana event in Brussels

05/07/2012

On the evening of the 9th May 2012, the European Commission and Europeana together with the Danish Presidency organised an event for Ministers from the Education, Youth and Culture (EYC) Council, senior leaders of European memory organisations and leading figures in the creative industries. The aim of the event was to raise awareness of Europeana among citizens and to demonstrate that online cultural heritage is a driver for growth. Ministers from all EU countries have selected their top treasures to be unveiled in Brussels on 9th May. Lithuanian Minister of Culture Arūnas Gelūnas selected Artis Magnae Artilleriae by Kazimieras Simonavičius, a 1650 discussion of rocketry and pyrotechnics. His choice can be seen >

Virtual exhibition “Treasures of Lithuanian Museums”

The exhibition “Treasures of Lithuanian Museums” http://www.muziejai.lt/lobiai/ is a present for those who are interested in, study and promote valuables stored in Lithuanian museums.
The exhibition is part of the programme Museum Year in Lithuania. All country’s museums participate in the project and provide data for the virtual exhibition. Each of them has an opportunity to present from 5 to 15 exhibits from its collections.

10–17 August 2013 – ICOM’s 23rd General Conference

ICOM’s 23rd General Conference will be held from 10 to 17 August, 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Participants will debate around the theme Museums (memory + creativity) = social change.
Some 3,000 to 4,000 international participants are expected at this crucial event for ICOM, for its members and for the international museum community. It provides a platform for museum professionals from different regions and cultures to share and exchange on their expertise and experience. More http://www.icomrio2013.org.br >

Lithuanian Museums are working for digitisation and for sharing their collections to Europe

04/10/2012

Lithuanian museums caught the digitisation train rather late comparing with the rest of Europe. Therefore now they try hard to come up with it and present Europe’s audience with digital images of their collections. The coordinator of museums digitisation activities is the Lithuanian Museums’ Centre for Information, Digitisation and LIMIS (LM CID LIMIS) established as a separate department at the Lithuanian Art Museum in 2009. More www.digitalmeetsculture.net >

Uncommon Culture – International Athena journal Vol 2, no. 1(3) (2011): From Closed Doors to Open Gates is available on-line

02/24/2012

Uncommon Culture provides unique perspectives on a rich variety of cultural activities in Europe. Examining cultural institutions and their collections, this magazine gives new insight into diverse cultural activities.
Read Article and Conference report from Lithuania:
D. Mukienė: The Development of Digital Publications in Lithuanian Museums in 1995–2010. Read >
D. Sirgedaitė: The Cooperation between State and Business Agencies in Pursuing Cultural Heritage Digitisation Projects in Science and Memory Institutions. Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius (Lithuania), November 10, 2010. Read >
Full table of contents >