EU-LAC MUSEUMS - EU-LAC Bi-Regional Youth Exchange

EULAC Museums and Communities win ILUCIDARE Special Prizes 2021!!

The Jury praises the value of the intercultural, intercontinental and international relations created and sustained by EU-LAC Museums: “EU-LAC is a well-established international network that shares cultural values through the management and care for cultural buildings and monuments. Not only do they represent an international collaboration between expert organisations, the network gradually built a community with many smaller organisations in several cultural sectors in different parts of the world, creating a common language through the identification of a common goal.”
To date, this project has successfully set-up exchanges and improved relations between 154 countries with 108,365 people engaging in person or online with the project activities and its web portal.

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Statement of solidarity during the Coronavirus pandemic

On behalf of the project and its mentors ICOM Europe and ICOM Latin America and the Caribbean, our best thoughts go out first and foremost to the families losing loved ones too soon or facing personal difficulties, to the governments dealing with rapid change, and to the medical professionals who are responding so heroically to the pandemic.

The museum world is now facing its own crisis with future funding and infrastructure at risk and difficult decisions to be made at all levels. And yet, the experience of our project has shown that museums are more than traditional buildings, collections and established curatorial practices, having value for social, cultural, and environmental as well as economic development. These are the values that we can look to at a time like this, when communities need to work together more than ever for the greater good, allowing the museum as an institution to adapt and become what it needs to be in times of crisis, whether a distribution centre, a care facility, or whatever else the community may need.

As a consortium of museum researchers, practitioners, and policy makers facing the unprecedented global situation around Covid-19, we take this moment to reflect on the role of museum communities and community museums in the world, as experienced through our Horizon 2020 project EU-LAC Museums.

The museum world is now facing its own crisis with future funding and infrastructure at risk and difficult decisions to be made at all levels [See here the ICOM’s website statement]. And yet, the experience of our project has shown that museums are more than traditional buildings, collections and established curatorial practices, having value for social, cultural, and environmental as well as economic development [Download here the new ICOM Resolution]. These are the values that we can look to at a time like this, when communities need to work together more than ever for the greater good, allowing the museum as an institution to adapt and become what it needs to be in times of crisis, whether a distribution centre, a care facility, or whatever else the community may need.

In the years of its existence, EU-LAC Museums has weathered a number of difficult circumstances, including the El Niño in Peru in 2017, the hurricanes in Costa Rica and the Caribbean in 2017, the civil unrest in Chile in 2019, and now the lastminute cancellation of our final General Assembly in Costa Rica owing to Coronavirus. Today, communities are in crisis, and through this situation we will continue to demonstrate through our research and collective action how, through relationships with community museums and local leaders we can work together to overcome difficulties and demonstrate resilience.

Karen Brown, EU-LAC Museums Coordinator

Luís Raposo, President of ICOM Europe

Beatrice Espinoza, President of ICOM Latin America and the Caribbean

Scotland, Portugal, Spain, France, Peru, Chile, Costa Rica and West Indies

EU-LAC-MUSEUMS - Museums and Community

Concepts, Experiences, and Sustainability in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean

Welcome to eulacmuseums.net – the website where you will discover the world of small, local museums and their communities in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean! We are a consortium of academics, museum professionals and policy makers who are committed to community museology making a difference in the world.

Scotland, Portugal, Spain, France, Peru, Chile, Costa Rica and West Indies

EU-LAC-MUSEUMS
Museums and Community

Concepts, Experiences, and Sustainability in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean

We invite you to participate in a research survey

What is a Community Museum?

About the scope and perception of the concept of 'community museum'.

Our overarching aim is to understand the concept in different contexts, and the study will conclude with an publically-accessible report containing the anonymised data, including quotations, but excluding any personal information supplied by the respondents. We are interested in both tangible and intangible cultural heritage. We are interested in both tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

We invite you to participate in a research survey

What is a Community Museum?

About the scope and perception of the concept of 'community museum'.

WP8 D8.9 Compendium of Sustainable Community Museums (led by MNA/DGPC)

On Community and Sustainable Museums

Edited by Karen Brown, Peter Davis, Luís Raposo

The aim of this book is to share the experience and knowledge of our project Advisors - Beatriz Espinoza, Hugues de Varine,Teresa Morales Lersch, and Peter Davis - concerning the key concepts and features of community and sustainable museums. They also provide reflections and didactic tools to suggest how a community might go about conceiving and creating a new community or ecomuseum if they so wished.

WP8 D8.9 Compendium of Sustainable Community Museums (led by MNA/DGPC)

On Community and Sustainable Museums

Edited by Karen Brown, Peter Davis, Luís Raposo

The aim of this Book of Community and Sustainable Museums is to share the experience and knowledge of our project Advisors - Beatriz Espinoza, Hugues de Varine,Teresa Morales Lersch, and Peter Davis - concerning the key concepts and features of community and sustainable museums. They also provide reflections and didactic tools to suggest how a community might go about conceiving and creating a new community or ecomuseum if they so wished.

WP3: Chile Case Study (led by UACh)

Characterization of the Museums Network

Karin Weil, Laura Fuquene, Gustavo Blanco, Simón Urbina y Crsitobal Bize

WP3: Chile Case Study (led by UACh)

Characterization of the Museums Network

Karin Weil, Laura Fuquene, Gustavo Blanco, Simón Urbina y Crsitobal Bize

This document is the result of field work carried out between May and June 2017, which aimed to facilitate the approach between the museums and cultural centers that make up the Network of Museums and Cultural Centers of Los Ríos Region, in order to know in greater depth their diverse realities from quantitative and qualitative aspects referring to territory, users and communities.
This research is presented in an exploratory way through an interpretative approach, analyzing qualitative and quantitative data with primary and secondary data sources.

WP4: Bi-Regional Youth Exchange

Experiences from the Bi-Regional Youth Exchange

Karen Brown, Jamie Allan Brown, Ronald Martínez Villarreal, Paula Menino Homem

This booklet shares a selection of the experiences from the Bi-Regional Youth Exchange between Europe and Latin America. There is no time like the present to ensure young people have every opportunity to contribute to their communities, promote their heritage, participate in decision making and challenge the threats that they and their community may face.

WP4: Bi-Regional Youth Exchange

Experiences from the Bi-Regional Youth Exchange

Karen Brown, Jamie Allan Brown, Ronald Martínez Villarreal, Paula Menino Homem

This booklet shares a selection of the experiences from the Bi-Regional Youth Exchange between Europe and Latin America.
There is no time like the present to ensure young people have every opportunity to contribute to their communities, promote their heritage, participate in decision making and challenge the threats that they and their community may face.

Museum Education for Social Inclusion and Cohesion Concept and Approach “Museums are important because they serve to remind us of who we are and what our place is in the world. [...] Museum professionals, with reference to their visitors, frequently use the expression ‘museum community’, but can this be defined? We also need to discover how museums interact with their community, and the community with its museums, and place this in historical perspective.” (Peter Davis, “Place Exploration: museums, identity, community”, in Watson, S. ed., Museums and Their Communities. London and New York: Routledge, 2007, pp.53-75; 53) In this section of our project, we aim “to promote the Horizon2020 goal of fostering inclusive, innovative and reflective societies” by researching state-of-the-art initiatives in museums and community empowerment, and then move beyond these initiatives to implement and evaluate our own innovative bi-regional community education project. Our aim is to both transform individual lives within museum communities, and to create a method of implementation and evaluation that will be applicable to wider regions. Herein we focus on museum education, involving academic research into community museology, an intergenerational bi-regional museum education programme, and implementing a bi-regional youth exchange programme. It seeks to answer the following key questions in community museology: How can we define “community museums” and “sustainability” in bi-regional context? What are the most important changes our small-scale museum communities are experiencing in EU and LAC? What are the most cutting edge initiatives of museums to promote social inclusion and cohesion in each region? How can small-scale regional museums gain agency in promoting best practice amongst museums and policy makers on a global stage? One of the main ways in which we are addressing these issues res, is through the EU-LAC Bi-Regional Youth Exchange EU-LAC-MUSEUMS will facilitate an exciting and empowering bi-regional youth exchange between Latin America and Europe. 24 young people: 12 from Costa Rica, 6 from Portugal and 6 from Scotland. Each month, these 24 young people will take part in workshops discussing their rural community, identity, heritage, culture whilst building their self-confidence. In between workshops, the young people will be encouraged to visit the their local community museums as well as document their journey through an online blog and Instagram. The main language of the exchange will be English, but each young person will be encouraged to share their own language: Spanish, Portuguese, Gaelic or Borucan to interact with the local community. In summer 2017, the Scottish and Portuguese young people will travel to Costa Rica taking part in an international exchange. Offering the young people an opportunity to compare their own community, identity, heritage and culture with indigenous communities of Boruca, Rey Curré and San Vincente. In Summer 2018, the Costa Rican young people visit Europe; 6 visiting the rural island of the Isle of Skye in the north west of Scotland; 6 visiting the rural communities of Barcelos, Penafiel and São João da Madeira.

RECRUITMENT With high numbers of young people wanting to take part, EU-LAC-MUSEUMS Researchers developed a rigorous application process involving producing a video, taking part in assessed group work, and completing a comprehensive written application. This process ensures the right committed candidates take part. In particular the process was an opportunity for young people to display their skills and personality out with their education. Below Jonathan Smith from the Isle of Skye, Scotland tells us why he would like to part of this unique Youth Exchange Programme; The EU-LAC-MUSEUMS Youth Exchange Programme is committed to being an equal opportunities project, promoting fairness and diversity. The young people will be empowered to develop their own code of conduct and rules whilst being part of this programme. When travelling for the Youth Exchange, young people will seek to be discreet and sensitive in communities, and to show respect for the way of life of those who accept them into their communities. The young people and Researchers have much to learn from each other’s cultures and, as an representative for your own community and a guest in theirs, it is important to understand local traditions and behaviours and be sensitive to them at all times.
SCOTLAND The Scottish Youth Exchange Programme will operate within the rural island of the Isle of Skye in the north west of Scotland. Monthly workshops will be facilitated by the University of St Andrews's Youth Programme Worker, working in partnership with the Staffin Community Trust, The Skye Ecomuseum, Aros Centre Portree and Portree High School. The young people taking part are representative from across the island, bi-lingual speaking both Scottish Gaelic and English. Scotland's young people will be accredited through the Scottish Government’s Saltire Award volunteering certification. In November 2017, the young people will take part in an award ceremony at the University of St Andrews. Each young person will be awarded a certificate that can be used towards university, college and apprenticeship applications for their future careers. https://eulacmuseumsyouthscotland.wordpress.com

PORTUGAL Overseen by MNA/DGPC consultancy, the Portuguese Youth Exchange Programme will operate within the rural communities of Barcelos, Penafiel and São João da Madeira near Portugal's second major city Porto. Monthly workshops will be facilitated by the Universidade do Porto Master students working in partnership with Barcelos Pottery Museum, Penafiel Municipal Museum and S. João da Madeira Hat Museum. https://eulacmuseumspt.tumblr.com/

COSTA RICA The Costa Rican Youth Exchange Programme will operate within the indigenous village communities of Boruca, Rey Curré and San Vincente. Monthly workshops will be facilitated by the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica working in partnership with Red de Museos Comunitarios de América and the local community museums of each village. The young people taking part are representative from across the villages. https://eulacmuseumsyouthcostarica.wordpress.com/

RESEARCHERS The following EU-LAC-MUSEUMS Researchers will be working with the young people in their countries; Jamie Allan Brown, University of St Andrews, Scotland Paula Menino Homem, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Ronald Martínez Villarreal, Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

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Museums for Social Inclusion and Cohesion 

Characterize and promote the statements about historic and family memory, cultural identity and material/immaterial heritage which are emitted by the museums of the Region of Los Rios, and other museums situated in member countries from the EU-LAC Museum Consortium. Pursuing the promotion of ancestral knowledge, the bi-directional transmission of knowledge and principles between the communities / museums / universities, and strengthening the working relationship of the network of Museums.

Technology and Innovation for Bi-Regional Integration

By allowing local community museums to create a network with other similar organisations, in both LAC and EU, our project, and in particular this work package, will significantly promote and aid the development of mutual knowledge and understanding of peoples, through digital (namely web) and physical in situ means. Museums are an invaluable tool in this process due to their capacity to connect the remote/digital with the present/physical understanding of the world, both in terms of its similarities and diversities.

Fostering Sustainable Community Museums

EU-LAC-MUSEUMS seeks to carry out out a comparative analysis of small to medium-sized rural museums and their communities in the EU and LAC regions, and to develop associated history and theory.

Exhibiting Migration and Gender

To empower institutional partners within the EU_LAC project with the necessary digitisation and communication technology training and tools allowing them to fully participate in and support the development of a virtual museum of the migration experience/s as informed by the experiences and trajectories outlined.
To conceptualise and develop new interpretation resources, utilising both historical and contemporary contracts (both memory and art based) in the development of travelling exhibitions and associated educational resources, making available through partnership arrangements with museums as identified.

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Galleries of 3D Artefacts

Objects, following certain criteria, are picked by museum staff to either be 3D scanned or photogrammatised. Scanning can be done only if the necessary equipment is available, which lends photogrammetry to be the preferred affordable method. Images are sent through open source software that creates a 3D file which then can be archived and uploaded to a social archiving site such as Sketchfab. As a social site, Sketchfab tracks a user’s followers, views and comments. All digital objects appear in a video player which can be embedded in websites easily.

EU LAC Virtual Museum

Created specifically for the EU-LAC MUSEUMS project by the University of St Andrews, the EU-LAC MUSEUMS Virtual Museum is a major research outcome that assembles digital media of cultural heritage; making it easy to access and use. 3D digital objects, 360° museum tours and community discussion videos populate the Virtual Museum as content generated from the 3D Workshops, held in three European, three Latin American and three Caribbean countries. By creating digital content from community museums all over the world, the heritage, objects and stories can be shared and appreciated by a global audience.

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Tangible & Intangible database

One of the objectives of this initiative is to encourage small community museums to contribute to a global online inventory.
In community museums, the exhibited objects represent (or are part of) an intangible cultural heritage. We propose the creation of a database that integrates an object-oriented inventory with an intangible cultural heritage-oriented inventory.

The contents of the website will be easier to search and access if we place all the cultural heritage (tangible and intangible) in a single database, even though the registration fields are not all the same for these two types of cultural heritage. In addition, an item placed in the database may contain a publication, several image files, a video file or an audio file. Or just one of these elements.

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Bibliography

Bibliography of Museums, Community and Sustainability [Database + PDF]

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