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PROGRAMME for ecomuseums and community musems

Please find below the programme of the meetings and activities planned for ecomuseums and community musems during the next General Conference of ICOM in Japan, next September.

Forum Ecomuseums and Community Museums -Japan 2019 16/07/2019

during and after the ICOM General Conference in Japan, 2019

Part 1.

ICR Off-site Meeting on Ecomuseums and Community Museums, Osaka, September 5

Organized jointly by the ICOM International Committee for Regional Museums (ICR), The Japanese Association of Small Museums (SMN) and the Japan Ecomuseological Society (JECOMS)

Venue: The Hirano “Machigurumi” Museum (Hirano Community-wide Museum) : Hirano Ecomuseum(Osaka city, Osaka prefecture)

Departure from Kyoto 8am, return to Kyoto 9.30pm (Bus for ICOM participants) : registration needed

Participation fee : payed on site (3,000 yen for Non-ICR participants: coach to/from Hirano Community-wide Museum and simultaneous interpretation for Off-site session).

Agenda :

10am – 1.30pm Tour of the Hirano town ecomuseum

10:10 Demonstration of forging a Japanese sword (until 12:00)

10:30 Free time (drinking tea with the locals, experience making of Japanese flowers/snacks, try traditional toys etc.)

12:00-13:30 Lunch (Free of charge)

12:00-13:30 Poster session

13:30- Forum: ECOMUSEUMS AND REGIONAL MUSEUMS

Venue: 3F of ‘Engi-den’ the Hall of Dainenbutsuji Temple, Hirano Town

13:30-13:40 Opening remarks Irena ŽMUC, ICR Chair

13:40-14:10 Keynote 1: Dr. Tomoo NUNOTANI, Ph.D. (Special Adviser of the Mie Prefectural Museum (MieMu)/President of The Museological Society of Japan)

14:10-14:30 Keynote 2: Mr. Ryonin KAWAGUCHI (Coordinator of The Hirano “Machigurumi” Museum (Hirano Community-wide Museum)/Chief priest of Senkoji Temple)

14:30-14:50 Tea/coffee

14:50 Session continues

14:50-16:10 Session : ECOMUSEUM, ECOLOGY, AND CULTURAL/NATURAL ENVIRONMENT (4 presentations from ICR, 5 case studies from SMNJ)

16:10-17:05 Session 9: Chair: Satoshi INOUE (St. Andrews University, Osaka, Japan): ECOMUSEUM and COMMUNITY MUSEUM (3 presentations from ecomuseums network)

16:10-16:25 Lecture 1: Hideo YOSHIKANE (Secretary, JECOMS, Japan)

16:25-16:40 Lecture 2: Alberto GARLANDINI (Vice president, ICOM, Italy)

16:40-16:55 Lecture 3: Karen BROWN (The University of St Andrews, UK)

16:55-17:05 Discussion

17:05-17:15 Summary and final words for the day

17:15 Session ends

17:30 Dinner (Free of charge)

17:30 Hirano-Danjiri-matsuri Festival (Dainenbutsuji Temple)

19:30 Festival ends

20:00 Depart Hirano town and to the HOTEL UNIZO Kyoto Shijo Karasuma by coach

21:30 Arrive at Hotel

Part 2.

Post-Conference Tour and Forum, Kanagawa, September 8 – 10

“International Forum for Ecomuseums and Community Museums in Kanagawa”

Organized jointly by the Japan Ecomuseological Society (JECOMS , DROPS, Yokohama National University (YNU)

Collaborated with : Chigasaki Ecomuseum, Kaname Ecomuseum, Miura Peninsula Ecomuseum, Okusu Ecomuseum, Hiratsuka city museum, Yokosuka city museum, Kanagawa prefectural museum, Hakone geopark and the Network of Kanagawa Ecomuseums

Venue: Hakone, Chigasaki, Hiratsuka, Miura peninsula (contain five municipalities; Yokosuka, Zushi, Hayama, Miura, Kamakura), Ecomuseums and Community museums in Kanagawa prefecture. Main venue and the hotel for two nights’ stay is Chigasaki, which city is in the middle of Kanagawa

Sep 8. Sunday visit Hakone museums and Geopark

Departure from KYOTO sta. to ODAWARA sta. (123 minutes by Shinkansen super-express train) 10:32(Kyoto) to 12:35 (Odawara) on HIKARI 516 (or 8:32 to 10:35 on HIKARI 512 as you like)

Lunch (Bento) are taken by your own in the train by each.

12:45 Start of the tour : Meeting in front of ODAWARA station.

Transportation by coach

Visit on Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, Welcome drive and visit to HAKONE Geopark and Geomuseum

go to Chigasaki and check in hotel Yokyu-inn

Sep 9. Monday visit Chigasaki and Hiratsuka, Forum and Party

9:00 – 12:00 in the morning: participants will be separated into two groups of excursion

Visit around by small buses, going to sites in Chigasaki city (group A) / sites in Hiratsuka city (group B)

Group A: Chigasaki city museums of folklore, literature, fine arts and ecomuseum sites of historical buildings and heritages etc.

Group B: Hiratsuka city museum, natural and historical sites of Kaname ecomuseum

Lunch: in each group, after lunch back to Chigasaki

In the afternoon: Forum sessions at Chigasaki community hall in city hall

14:30 - 14:40 opening speech

14:40 – 15:10 Past and future of Japanese ecomuseums in Kanagawa prefecture (in Japanese, simultaneous translation into English)

15:10 – 18:20 six presentations about ecomuseums (15 minutes * 6 presentations * 2 : consecutive translation = 180 minutes) from over the world (in English, consecutive translation into Japanese)

15:10 - 15:40 Lecture 1 : Oscar Navajas CORRAL (Spain)

15:40 – 16:10 Lecture 2 : Gerard Corsane (UK)

16:10 – 16:40 Lecture 3 : Heloisa Helena da Costa (Brasil)

16:40 – 16: 50 coffee break intermission

16:50 – 17:20 Lecture 4 : (China, Korea, Taiwan, India, USA, Canada, ??)

17:20 – 17:50 Lecture 5 :

17:50 – 18:20 Lecture 6 :

18:20 – 18:30 conclusion

18:40 – 21:00 Exchange Party at the same hall

Sep 10 Tuesday: visit to Miura Peninsula Ecomuseum

8:30 – 9:30 leaving from hotel with putting luggage in the coach and go to Miura area

9:30 – 11:30 visit Ecomuseum sites of Miura Peninsula Ecomuseum

12:00 – 13:30 visit and Lunch at the Yokosuka city museum

13:30 - 15:00 move to Shin-Yokohama train Sta. by coach and dissolved at 15:00

return by train to Kyoto (2 hours) or go to Tokyo area (20 minutes) or Narita int. airport (2 hours).

Fee:

Participant of ICOM and General participant: 5,000 Yen

(incl. two lunches, field trips, coffee breaks, documents materials and interpretation equipment)

Please pay your own transportation expenses from Kyoto to Odawara and from Shin-Yokohama to your next destination (Kyoto, Tokyo or so), accommodation fees and other meals, drinks.

REFERENCES introducing Japanese Ecomuseums

Hirano, Miura in Peter Davis: Ecomuseums and the Democratisation of Japanese Museology, International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol 10, 2004 - Issue 1, pp.93-110

Hirano, Chigasaki, Miura in Oscar Navajas: Japan ecomuseums: Global models for concrete realities, Cadernos de Sociomuseologia, n. 38, oct. 2010

Miura in Kazuoki Ohara; Relationship between peoples’ local actions and traditional museums - Case study on Miura Peninsula Ecomuseum as the network to integrate local resources in the area–, ECOMUSEUMS 2012 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Ecomuseums, Community Museums and Living Communities, pp.257-266, Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development, Sep 2012

registration:

Please register

1. Name and institution of the participant

2. ICOM number if applicable

3. E-mail address

to be sent to Kazuoki Ohara, president of JECOMS,

ecomuseum2019@gmail.com