As part of the 12th Edition of ‘Montevideo + Museums’, a program exclusively for members of the Montevideo Tourist Association, a talk will be held on May 27 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at the Golden Room of the Montevideo City Hall, located at Av. 18 de Julio 1360, 1st and a half floor.

“Montevideo + Museums” supports the purpose of raising awareness of the fact that museums are an important means for cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures, as well as for the development of mutual understanding, collaboration and peace among peoples.
Organized every May 18, International Museum Day, or around that date for more than 40 years, the events and activities planned to celebrate International Museum Day can last a day, a weekend or even a whole week.

More and more museums around the world are participating in this worldwide celebration: last year 37,000 museums took part in the event in 158 countries and territories.

Montevideo is one of the destinations that for 12 years has been actively participating in this initiative proposed by ICOM – International Council of Museums.

Some of the Museums of Montevideo grouped from the associativity that gives them being part of the Tourist Association of Montevideo, have generated an outstanding activity that we are convinced will be a great contribution to the motto proposed this year by ICOM – International Museum Day 2024: “Museums for education and research” which emphasizes the fundamental role of cultural institutions in providing a holistic educational experience.

This day advocates for a more conscious, sustainable and inclusive world.

Participants:

Numismatic Museum

“Banknotes are not just money”.

Paper to be presented by Maria Laura Pintos

MAPI – Museo de Arte Precolombino e Indígena

“What objects tell us”.

Paper to be presented by Mercedes Sosa

Museo Nacional de Antropología

“La investigación en el MNA” (description of the research in the different areas of anthropological knowledge)

Paper to be presented by the Director of the MNA, Lic. Carina Erchini

Museo Figari

“Research in the museum: scope and challenges”

Paper to be presented by Pablo Thiago Rocca

Cultural Routes DNC – MEC

“Cultural Routes – DNC – MEC”

Paper to be presented by: Leonard Mattioli and Alejandro Giménez

Casa Vilamajo Museum, Fadu, Udelar

“Casa Vilamajó, heritage as an object of study”
Paper to be presented by: Arq. Mónica Nieto

Museo del Carnaval

The lecture will focus on a research work being developed with the FIC, “The party as archival heritage. Project of description, digitalization and dissemination of the documentary heritage of the Documentation and Research Center of the Carnival Museum.”

Lecture by María Belén Pafundi, member of the team of the Documentation and Research Center – CENDOC of the museum and Dante López Ospitaleche, assistant professor with orientation in documentary management at the Institute of Information, Faculty of Information and Communication (FIC)

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