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4-5 October 2010 16th Forum of Maritime Heritage of the Mediterranean (AMMM) New Maritime Heritages, New Horizons for Museums. Well into the 21st C the science of museology has matured. Among them, centres managing maritime heritage have achieved to treat conservation, documentation, study and diffusion of tangible, buildings and intangible heritage integrally. It may be true that some museums do not have the means to fulfil their objectives; do not have the knowledge to work at a same level as other museums; or that their results may not be as successful. However, new working basis are settled. Today, not a single professional of a museum doubts about the importance and the extraordinary cultural value of floating heritage, traditional know-how and knowledge on maritime topics, of working and navigation objects, or of buildings and spaces related. Curators no longer centre their focus on collections and museum buildings. One of the key questions we should make ourselves -curators, documentalists, researchers and disseminators of maritime heritage- is whether we are doing enough for maritime heritage. Did we reach the top line of knowledge regarding this heritage? Should we limit ourselves to listing and cataloguing objects, buildings, ships and oral history? Will our only concern be the updating of the records with a suitable software? We are sure that there are still things that can be made. We can widen our goals and we can tackle new challenges related to maritime affairs with a heritage approach. Debates on sustainability and preservation of marine environment are constant themes dealt within our communities. What is the role of maritime museums? Can we consider marine landscape and environment as one of our objectives, given that that have given shape to the tangible culture that we study and preserve? A museum of today has accomplished to preserve and document most of the history of humanity up to our days. Present decisions will have an effect on the future. Are museums living centres that try to participate today in a better future? Should museums face approaches to new ways of living, new concepts of leisure and new information and communication means? What is the role of maritime museums in the creation of identities? Should maritime museums be involved in the design of the territory that it represents? Will the role of the museum towards the community be the same? Is dialogue with other social and economical agents necessary? Altogether gives birth to new questions, to new focuses and approaches, to new challenges and synergies. We would like to debate and provoke reflection on these issues during next AMMM Forum of Maritime Heritage of the Mediterranean. Palamós, Spain see further

4-5 October 2010
16th Forum of Maritime Heritage of the Mediterranean (AMMM)

New Maritime Heritages, New Horizons for Museums. Well into the 21st C the science of museology has matured. Among them, centres managing maritime heritage have achieved to treat conservation, documentation, study and diffusion of tangible, buildings and intangible heritage integrally. It may be true that some museums do not have the means to fulfil their objectives; do not have the knowledge to work at a same level as other museums; or that their results may not be as successful. However, new working basis are settled. Today, not a single professional of a museum doubts about the importance and the extraordinary cultural value of floating heritage, traditional know-how and knowledge on maritime topics, of working and navigation objects, or of buildings and spaces related. Curators no longer centre their focus on collections and museum buildings. One of the key questions we should make ourselves -curators, documentalists, researchers and disseminators of maritime heritage- is whether we are doing enough for maritime heritage. Did we reach the top line of knowledge regarding this heritage? Should we limit ourselves to listing and cataloguing objects, buildings, ships and oral history? Will our only concern be the updating of the records with a suitable software? We are sure that there are still things that can be made. We can widen our goals and we can tackle new challenges related to maritime affairs with a heritage approach. Debates on sustainability and preservation of marine environment are constant themes dealt within our communities. What is the role of maritime museums? Can we consider marine landscape and environment as one of our objectives, given that that have given shape to the tangible culture that we study and preserve? A museum of today has accomplished to preserve and document most of the history of humanity up to our days. Present decisions will have an effect on the future. Are museums living centres that try to participate today in a better future? Should museums face approaches to new ways of living, new concepts of leisure and new information and communication means? What is the role of maritime museums in the creation of identities? Should maritime museums be involved in the design of the territory that it represents? Will the role of the museum towards the community be the same? Is dialogue with other social and economical agents necessary? Altogether gives birth to new questions, to new focuses and approaches, to new challenges and synergies. We would like to debate and provoke reflection on these issues during next AMMM Forum of Maritime Heritage of the Mediterranean.

Palamós, Spain

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