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SMITHSONIAN SEMINAR ON INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM CAPACITY-BUILDING AT THE U.S. EMBASSY IN ARMENIA
armradio.am
13:25 11.10.2012
On October 11, the U.S. Embassy hosted a Smithsonian seminar on
International Museum Capacity-Building. The guest speaker was Dr. Paul
Taylor, Director of Asian Cultural History Program of the Smithsonian
Institution accompanied by two researchers - Trevor Merrion and
Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth.
Paul Michael Taylor, a research anthropologist at the Smithsonian's
National Museum of Natural History, is Director of that museum's Asian
Cultural History Program, and serves as Curator of Asian, European,
and Middle Eastern Ethnology. He has written numerous books and
scholarly articles on the ethnography, ethnobiology, languages,
and art (or material culture) of Asia, especially Indonesia. He
has also curated seventeen museum exhibitions, and served as the
consulting anthropologist for five documentary anthropological
films. Most recently, he and his co-authors published the books Past
and future heritage in the pipelines corridor: Azerbaijan, Georgia,
Turkey (Smithsonian, 2011; English/Georgian and English/Azerbaijani
editions) and Turkmenistan: Ancient Arts Today (Smithsonian, 2011).
The seminar focused on the following themes: (1) How Museums Thrive
in the 21st Century, (2) Museums as Cultural Centers: The Integration
of Museum Activities within Museum Programs, (3) Online Research
Publications, Virtual Exhibitions, and other Museum Uses of the Web,
and (4) Introduction to Information Technology and its Applications
in Museums.
The participants included leaders and representatives from about
twenty Armenian museums and organizations.
armradio.am
13:25 11.10.2012
On October 11, the U.S. Embassy hosted a Smithsonian seminar on
International Museum Capacity-Building. The guest speaker was Dr. Paul
Taylor, Director of Asian Cultural History Program of the Smithsonian
Institution accompanied by two researchers - Trevor Merrion and
Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth.
Paul Michael Taylor, a research anthropologist at the Smithsonian's
National Museum of Natural History, is Director of that museum's Asian
Cultural History Program, and serves as Curator of Asian, European,
and Middle Eastern Ethnology. He has written numerous books and
scholarly articles on the ethnography, ethnobiology, languages,
and art (or material culture) of Asia, especially Indonesia. He
has also curated seventeen museum exhibitions, and served as the
consulting anthropologist for five documentary anthropological
films. Most recently, he and his co-authors published the books Past
and future heritage in the pipelines corridor: Azerbaijan, Georgia,
Turkey (Smithsonian, 2011; English/Georgian and English/Azerbaijani
editions) and Turkmenistan: Ancient Arts Today (Smithsonian, 2011).
The seminar focused on the following themes: (1) How Museums Thrive
in the 21st Century, (2) Museums as Cultural Centers: The Integration
of Museum Activities within Museum Programs, (3) Online Research
Publications, Virtual Exhibitions, and other Museum Uses of the Web,
and (4) Introduction to Information Technology and its Applications
in Museums.
The participants included leaders and representatives from about
twenty Armenian museums and organizations.