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23-25 September 2010 7th EMH Congress September in Seixal, Portugal. Are we able to hand maritime heritage down to future generations? In recent years, institutions involved in heritage preservation and management, including museums, have engaged in reflection as to the means that might lead to the participation of young people in heritage protection and restoration processes. This question takes on still greater relevance when considering that these same individuals may simultaneously become the future visitors and/or users of heritage resources, future professionals in the technical and scientific fields related to heritage and, finally, the future custodians of heritage related testimonies and who would then in turn take on the mission to preserve and convey them for the generations to come. Hence, there is a need to identify the means of fostering youth interest in heritage, ensuring their active participation in the definition of heritage related programs. Through interaction with young people, both museums and the many other heritage related institutions would be contributing towards the instruction of future societies. The 7th European Maritime Heritage Congress correspondingly focuses upon these issues in relation to the field of maritime heritage. The host organisation, Seixal Municipal Ecomuseum, thereby hopes to nurture an exchange of experiences and boost the levels of cooperation between maritime museums and other entities involved in generating knowledge on safeguarding and promoting maritime heritage. Seixal, Portugal Site Ecomuseum Seixal Download program

4-5 October 2010 16th Forum of Maritime Heritage of the Mediterranean (AMMM) New Maritime Heritages, New Horizons for Museums. Well into the 21st C the science of museology has matured. Among them, centres managing maritime heritage have achieved to treat conservation, documentation, study and diffusion of tangible, buildings and intangible heritage integrally. It may be true that some museums do not have the means to fulfil their objectives; do not have the knowledge to work at a same level as other museums; or that their results may not be as successful. However, new working basis are settled. Today, not a single professional of a museum doubts about the importance and the extraordinary cultural value of floating heritage, traditional know-how and knowledge on maritime topics, of working and navigation objects, or of buildings and spaces related. Curators no longer centre their focus on collections and museum buildings. One of the key questions we should make ourselves -curators, documentalists, researchers and disseminators of maritime heritage- is whether we are doing enough for maritime heritage. Did we reach the top line of knowledge regarding this heritage? Should we limit ourselves to listing and cataloguing objects, buildings, ships and oral history? Will our only concern be the updating of the records with a suitable software? We are sure that there are still things that can be made. We can widen our goals and we can tackle new challenges related to maritime affairs with a heritage approach. Debates on sustainability and preservation of marine environment are constant themes dealt within our communities. What is the role of maritime museums? Can we consider marine landscape and environment as one of our objectives, given that that have given shape to the tangible culture that we study and preserve? A museum of today has accomplished to preserve and document most of the history of humanity up to our days. Present decisions will have an effect on the future. Are museums living centres that try to participate today in a better future? Should museums face approaches to new ways of living, new concepts of leisure and new information and communication means? What is the role of maritime museums in the creation of identities? Should maritime museums be involved in the design of the territory that it represents? Will the role of the museum towards the community be the same? Is dialogue with other social and economical agents necessary? Altogether gives birth to new questions, to new focuses and approaches, to new challenges and synergies. We would like to debate and provoke reflection on these issues during next AMMM Forum of Maritime Heritage of the Mediterranean. Palamós, Spain see further

21-23 October 2010 Port and Industrial Patrimonies in Friuli Venezia Giulia The meeting is the result of a direct action from the Trieste Branch of Italia Nostra to protect and promote the reuse of most historic building within the Free Zone in the Port of Trieste‟s oldest area. Encour-agement and information have been re-ceived from AIVP The Worldwide Net-work of Port Cities based in Le Havre and from the Hafen-City University of Hamburg. This event will seek to create an opportu-nity for economic and architectonic analysis of urban waterfronts with special regards to the tourism flows and culture promo-tion: urban waterfronts play a substantial role in the processes of urbanization in port cities around the world. They promote new built environments, new socio-cultural systems as well as architectonic sugges-tions and restoration works to preserve historic buildings. This event will benefits from both international and domestic ex-periences with the aim to highlight the case of Trieste Old Port and the plans for its future. Trieste, Italy www.portindustrial.heritages.org see further

27-30 October 2010 Issues of Study and Preservation of Maritime Heritage of Russia TASK OF THE CONFERENCE Estimation of the scale, variety and unity of the maritime heritage phenomenon, identification of problems and their solutions, formation of a community dedicated to maritime heritage. THE MAIN DIRECTIONS OF WORK AT THE CONFERENCE 1. museums, archives, libraries, collections of maritime, historical, cultural and natural heritage 2. traditional ships, seamanship and yachting 3. historical and traditional shipbuilding and navigation 4. underwater heritage 5. historical boat model making 6. maritime memorials, fortifications, historical cities and settlements and other objects of historical and cultural heritage 7. popularization of maritime heritage, informative and instructive, scientific and publishing activity 8. maritime heritage of Russia abroad 9. study and preservation of water areas and costal territories of seas and oceans as complex natural and cultural heritage. Saint Petersburg ICMM upcoming conferences and www.maritime-heritage.ru see further

12-13 November 2010 The International Sail Training & Tall Ships Conference 2010 The International Sail Training and Tall Ships Conference 2010 will provide tailored programmes to meet the needs and interests of key delegate groups and being the only global conference for sail training, provides a great opportunity to network. This year the Conference will be held on 12th and 13th November in Stavanger, Norway. The City of Stavanger is no stranger to Tall Ships events, having been a host port on several occasions and will be again in 2011. Located within Norway’s spectacular fjords, Stavanger has a strong maritime heritage developed through fishing and ship building. Delegates will find it easy to travel to Stavanger where the conference will be located in the Stavanger Forum Conference Centre, 5 minutes by bus from the city centre. They can look forward to wonderful hospitality and the opportunity to visit some of the beautiful and interesting sights in and around the city. Stavanger, Norway www.sailtraininginternational.org Program

5-9 September 2011 Corrosion of Historic Ships The 4 mast barque Pommern in Mariehamn on the Åland Islands has recently undergone a thorough repair on a local shipyard. The work was preceded by a rather agitated debate on riveting versus welding in riveted constructions. Mariehamn still dominated by maritime ventures and cherishing its maritime traditions, is perhaps the only place in the world where the opinion columns of the daily newspapers for months on end debated the pros and cons of methods to preserve a museum ship. Mariehamn, Åland, Finland / Turku, Finland see further

19-24 September 2011 World Canals Conference (WCC) Groningen, the Netherlands

23-25 September 2010
7th EMH Congress September in Seixal, Portugal.

Are we able to hand maritime heritage down to future generations? In recent years, institutions involved in heritage preservation and management, including museums, have engaged in reflection as to the means that might lead to the participation of young people in heritage protection and restoration processes. This question takes on still greater relevance when considering that these same individuals may simultaneously become the future visitors and/or users of heritage resources, future professionals in the technical and scientific fields related to heritage and, finally, the future custodians of heritage related testimonies and who would then in turn take on the mission to preserve and convey them for the generations to come. Hence, there is a need to identify the means of fostering youth interest in heritage, ensuring their active participation in the definition of heritage related programs. Through interaction with young people, both museums and the many other heritage related institutions would be contributing towards the instruction of future societies. The 7th European Maritime Heritage Congress correspondingly focuses upon these issues in relation to the field of maritime heritage. The host organisation, Seixal Municipal Ecomuseum, thereby hopes to nurture an exchange of experiences and boost the levels of cooperation between maritime museums and other entities involved in generating knowledge on safeguarding and promoting maritime heritage.

Seixal, Portugal

Site Ecomuseum Seixal
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4-5 October 2010
16th Forum of Maritime Heritage of the Mediterranean (AMMM)

New Maritime Heritages, New Horizons for Museums. Well into the 21st C the science of museology has matured. Among them, centres managing maritime heritage have achieved to treat conservation, documentation, study and diffusion of tangible, buildings and intangible heritage integrally. It may be true that some museums do not have the means to fulfil their objectives; do not have the knowledge to work at a same level as other museums; or that their results may not be as successful. However, new working basis are settled. Today, not a single professional of a museum doubts about the importance and the extraordinary cultural value of floating heritage, traditional know-how and knowledge on maritime topics, of working and navigation objects, or of buildings and spaces related. Curators no longer centre their focus on collections and museum buildings. One of the key questions we should make ourselves -curators, documentalists, researchers and disseminators of maritime heritage- is whether we are doing enough for maritime heritage. Did we reach the top line of knowledge regarding this heritage? Should we limit ourselves to listing and cataloguing objects, buildings, ships and oral history? Will our only concern be the updating of the records with a suitable software? We are sure that there are still things that can be made. We can widen our goals and we can tackle new challenges related to maritime affairs with a heritage approach. Debates on sustainability and preservation of marine environment are constant themes dealt within our communities. What is the role of maritime museums? Can we consider marine landscape and environment as one of our objectives, given that that have given shape to the tangible culture that we study and preserve? A museum of today has accomplished to preserve and document most of the history of humanity up to our days. Present decisions will have an effect on the future. Are museums living centres that try to participate today in a better future? Should museums face approaches to new ways of living, new concepts of leisure and new information and communication means? What is the role of maritime museums in the creation of identities? Should maritime museums be involved in the design of the territory that it represents? Will the role of the museum towards the community be the same? Is dialogue with other social and economical agents necessary? Altogether gives birth to new questions, to new focuses and approaches, to new challenges and synergies. We would like to debate and provoke reflection on these issues during next AMMM Forum of Maritime Heritage of the Mediterranean.

Palamós, Spain

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21-23 October 2010
Port and Industrial Patrimonies in Friuli Venezia Giulia

The meeting is the result of a direct action from the Trieste Branch of Italia Nostra to protect and promote the reuse of most historic building within the Free Zone in the Port of Trieste‟s oldest area. Encour-agement and information have been re-ceived from AIVP The Worldwide Net-work of Port Cities based in Le Havre and from the Hafen-City University of Hamburg. This event will seek to create an opportu-nity for economic and architectonic analysis of urban waterfronts with special regards to the tourism flows and culture promo-tion: urban waterfronts play a substantial role in the processes of urbanization in port cities around the world. They promote new built environments, new socio-cultural systems as well as architectonic sugges-tions and restoration works to preserve historic buildings. This event will benefits from both international and domestic ex-periences with the aim to highlight the case of Trieste Old Port and the plans for its future.

Trieste, Italy

www.portindustrial.heritages.org
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27-30 October 2010
Issues of Study and Preservation of Maritime Heritage of Russia

TASK OF THE CONFERENCE Estimation of the scale, variety and unity of the maritime heritage phenomenon, identification of problems and their solutions, formation of a community dedicated to maritime heritage. THE MAIN DIRECTIONS OF WORK AT THE CONFERENCE 1. museums, archives, libraries, collections of maritime, historical, cultural and natural heritage 2. traditional ships, seamanship and yachting 3. historical and traditional shipbuilding and navigation 4. underwater heritage 5. historical boat model making 6. maritime memorials, fortifications, historical cities and settlements and other objects of historical and cultural heritage 7. popularization of maritime heritage, informative and instructive, scientific and publishing activity 8. maritime heritage of Russia abroad 9. study and preservation of water areas and costal territories of seas and oceans as complex natural and cultural heritage.

Saint Petersburg

ICMM upcoming conferences and www.maritime-heritage.ru
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12-13 November 2010
The International Sail Training & Tall Ships Conference 2010

The International Sail Training and Tall Ships Conference 2010 will provide tailored programmes to meet the needs and interests of key delegate groups and being the only global conference for sail training, provides a great opportunity to network. This year the Conference will be held on 12th and 13th November in Stavanger, Norway. The City of Stavanger is no stranger to Tall Ships events, having been a host port on several occasions and will be again in 2011. Located within Norway’s spectacular fjords, Stavanger has a strong maritime heritage developed through fishing and ship building. Delegates will find it easy to travel to Stavanger where the conference will be located in the Stavanger Forum Conference Centre, 5 minutes by bus from the city centre. They can look forward to wonderful hospitality and the opportunity to visit some of the beautiful and interesting sights in and around the city.

Stavanger, Norway

www.sailtraininginternational.org
Program

5-9 September 2011
Corrosion of Historic Ships

The 4 mast barque Pommern in Mariehamn on the Åland Islands has recently undergone a thorough repair on a local shipyard. The work was preceded by a rather agitated debate on riveting versus welding in riveted constructions. Mariehamn still dominated by maritime ventures and cherishing its maritime traditions, is perhaps the only place in the world where the opinion columns of the daily newspapers for months on end debated the pros and cons of methods to preserve a museum ship.

Mariehamn, Åland, Finland / Turku, Finland

see further

19-24 September 2011
World Canals Conference (WCC)

Groningen, the Netherlands