Icom Group
Agathe Thies
With its 21 working groups, ICOM-CC offers conservators, scientists, curators and other professionals the opportunity to collaborate, study and promote the conservation and analysis of culturally and historically significant works..
The Metals Working Group is concerned with the conservation, restoration and preservation of all objects made of metals or metallic alloys of archaeological, indigenous, artistic or historical origin. The Aim of the Metals Working Group is to foster conservation and to promote the conservation science of Metals, to encourage the networking of conservators and metals experts, and to facilitate the dissemination of information on current conservation practice, research, and education; by electronic communication, meetings, specialty groups and social networks.
The ICOM-CC Metals Working Group, The National Museum of Finland and the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences are pleased to announce the call for posters for Metal 2022, the 10th Interim Meeting of the ICOM-CC Metals Working Group.
The Murals, Stone, and Rock Art Working Group aims to promote conservation of wall paintings, stone, rock art, and mosaics and to consider their survival in their original locations. The materials covered by this group have common physical attributes of being both porous and brittle with the substrate often influencing the state of preservation more than the surface pictorial or patination layer. The Working Group supports and encourages research and practical approaches to preserving Murals, Stone objects, and Rock Art and in maintaining their context and connection to their people.
If you are interested in participating in the discussions around one of the themes, please contact the coordinator of that theme. It will integrate you in a first online working group.
Opportunities for exchange with the rest of the CECA members will then be offered according to technical arrangements and a timetable specific to each group, but allowing participation in the work of several groups if so desired.
Student Organizations and Interest Committees are a vital component of campus life at ICOM. In one way or another, every group enriches the learning environment for ICOM students and provides opportunities for campus, local and global outreach.
The concept of decolonising museums means different things in different parts of the world. ICOM, the International Council of Museums, established a Working Group on Decolonisation. The Working Group will meet in June in the Netherlands, and during this conference they will share experiences from their daily practice, offering a broad variety of perspectives.
Speakers from Barbados, Benin, Canada, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Taiwan and Zambia, as well as from European countries, will shed light on what decolonisation means for their work. Many museums were established through colonialism. Discussions will include how to decolonise archival and artifact collections, how to work with diaspora communities and Indigenous peoples to reconcile colonial histories, how to renew conventional colonial museums and unpack colonial legacies, how to build a museum in the post-colonial era, the challenges countries and communities of origin meet in claiming back their cultural belongings, and what working in this field implies for the wellbeing of museum staff.
All speakers and moderators are members of the ICOM Working Group on Decolonisation. The conference is organised by the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, in collaboration with ICOM, ICOM Netherlands, DutchCulture and Unesco NL.
Balancing act: Nurturing staff wellbeing amidst challenging histories in museum collections, Abeer Eladany (Curatorial Assistant (Collection Access), University of Aberdeen, Scotland)
Colonial memories and migrant narratives at the Museum of Ethnology and World Cultures, Barcelona, Camila Opazo (Doctoral candidate in Society and Culture, University of Barcelona, Spain)
Incorporating cultural diversity into the efforts in raising awareness of sustainability issues: An approach to decolonising the museum, Phaedra Fang (Assistant researcher, National Taiwan Museum, Taipeh, Taiwan)
Unpacking colonial legacies through co-curatorship: Perspectives from Barbados, Natalie McGuire (Curator Social History and Community Engagement, Barbados Museum & Historical Society, Barbados)
Isabel Beirigo is research communication specialist at Sound & Vision for international projects. She is currently dedicated to the use of digital technologies to enhance accessibility to cultural heritage. With a focus on decolonisation of CHIs, she collaborates with underrepresented groups to bring more polyvocal perspectives to cultural collections, transforming cultural institutions into facilitators of cultural heritage.
Catherine Cole is Principal Consultant at Catherine C. Cole & Associates. Before that she was the Director of Planning for the Inuit Heritage Trust, developing the Nunavut Inuit Heritage Centre in Iqaluit, an Inuit-led initiative. She has been an independent consultant and museum specialist for more than 30 years and was previously a museum curator and historic site interpreter. In recent years, her focus has been on the decolonisation of museums and heritage sites throughout Canada as the Culture and Heritage Community Chair for the National Indigenous Knowledge and Language Alliance, an advisor to Parks Canada, the national parks service, and a member of the Geographical Names Board of Canada. Catherine is a board member of ICOM Canada, and former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Association of Museums.
Carly Degbelo is a Catholic priest and curator of religious heritage. He holds a Master 2 in Cultural Heritage and Tourism from Senghor University in Alexandria. As such, he runs the Diocesan Centre for Religious Heritage in Porto-Novo. His research focuses on the decolonisation of missionary museums in the West and the provenance of cultural property from the colonial era in Africa. Specifically, he is working on the photographic collections and the African art collections of the Lyon missionaries in France. The project of the centre of which he is director and curator is to set up a decolonial museum based on the inculturation of the values received during colonisation. The aim is not to reject, but to integrate for a peaceful cultural dialogue.
As a curator at the Barbados Museum & Historical Society, Natalie McGuire centers her practice on community-led methodology in museology of the global South and its exchanges with the post-empire global North. Having completed a BA in History of Art at the University of Leicester and an MA in Museums and Cultural Heritage at the University of Auckland, she is currently a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill with a research focus on Caribbean museology. Natalie is Vice Chair for ICOM Barbados, a member of the executive board for The International Committee for Museology Latin America and the Caribbean (ICOFOM LAC) and a board member of the Barbados National Art Gallery.
Suy Lan Hopmann is a programme curator at the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin. She works on the topics of colonialism and coloniality, racism and migration as well as gender and queer. Previously, she was responsible for Hamburg's decolonisation strategies at the city's Department of Media and Culture, and curator for special projects and diversity at the Museum am Rothenbaum - Kulturen und Knste der Welt (MARKK). She also curated the exhibition "Hey Hamburg, do you know Duala Manga Bell?" on German-Cameroonian colonial history. She studied Chinese Studies, Gender Studies and Sociology and worked as a research associate at the Chair of Politics and Economics of China. Suy Lan is board member of ICOM Germany.
Asma Ibrahim is a senior Archaeologist/ Museologist & Conservationist. She is the founder and director of the Archives & Art Gallery department of the State Bank Museum. Prior to this, she served in different capacities with the dept. of Archaeology & Museums of the Government of Pakistan as curator and director for more than three decades. Her doctorate is in Numismatic, Post doctorate in Archaeological Chemistry with special studies on ancient human remains as a Fulbright scholar. Asma is Chair of the ICOM International Committee for Money and Banking Museums.
Terry Simioti Nyambe works at the National Museums Board of Zambia and is responsible for all museum development programmes in Zambia. Before his current role, he has been a curator for over 20 years in the Natural History field. He is an Ecologist by profession. He has served in various portfolios in ICOM and now serves as one of the Vice Presidents of ICOM.
Camila Opazo is an activist and researcher, trained as an archaeologist and museologist. She has academic and professional experience in the field of the management of colonial legacies. Her interdisciplinary work includes dialogues between anthropology, memory and heritage studies, art, museology and archaeology. Her research interests are post- and decolonial studies, feminism, migrations and diasporic communities, subaltern memories and the decolonisation of museums. She is a doctoral candidate in Society and Culture in the University of Barcelona, and is a fellow of the National Agency of Research and Development of Chile.
Next to working at the National Museum of Colonial History, Ozueigbo Ishola Chinedu is a sculptor, art and fashion designer, and art historian. He also runs an Art Center (Promeu AB) and is Chair of the Society of Nigerian Artists in Abia State. His museum activities are centred around planning, organising and executing educational training, retraining staff in-house, guided tours and outreach programmes, exhibition plans and consultancy projects. Ozueigbo is co-chair of the ICOM Working Group on Decolonisation.
Hanna Pennock is an art historian and senior advisor at the Cultural Heritage Agency, specialising in colonial collections and decolonisation of museums. She is co-chair of the ICOM Working Group on Decolonisation.
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