Conference announcement AEPM 2014

AEPM conference 2014

Exhibiting printing heritage

The next meeting of the Association of European printing museums (AEPM) will be hosted by the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz (Germany) on the 24-25th October 2014. The theme of the conference is “Exhibiting printing heritage”.

The aim of the conference, visits and numerous informal exhanges and discussions is to promote collaboration among a broad range of European museums, heritage workshops and collectors in the field of printing heritage.

Among the themes which will be explored during the conference:

– making printing heritage relevant to the present day through exhibitions,
– what kinds of approaches for what kinds of visitors?
– collecting with a view to exhibiting,
– documenting collections  for exhibition,
– case studies of recent make-overs of printing and graphic arts related museums and collections,
– aims and approches of recent projects involving the exhibition of printing, book and graphic heritage materials
– the role of traditional printing skills in mediation,
– cooperation and exchanges between museums, printing heritage workshops and collectors.

Speakers will include:

Registration

The conference is open to members of the AEPM and the IADM as well as to non members (with a supplement), with the exception of the annual general meeting which is only open to currently paid up members of the AEPM.

Registration fee:
80 euros per person (members)
110 euros per person (non-members). Annual membership of the AEPM is 50 euros.)

To register please contact: info@aepm.eu.

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Rickey Tax, Meermanno Museum
Princessegracht 30
NL-2514 The Hague
Netherlands

More information concerning the Gutenberg Museum here.

More information on the City of Mainz here.

Musée Gutenberg