ABOUT ICMAH’S INITIATIVE
Sports museums have a particular typology which does not represented in the International Council of Museums (ICOM). ICMAH is being aware of this lack, initiated since 2017, a working group on sports museums. After our first workshops successively on April 2017 in the National Sport Museum, Nice, France, on October 2017 in Baku, Azerbaijan, on October 2018 in the Besiktas Club Museum in Istanbul, Turkey, we gain acceleration during pandemic, thanks to the digital meetings, and organized two more webinar one with ICOM Colombia on December, 2020, on “South America: Field of Sports Cultures” and the second on “Covid 19 impacts and consequences on sports Museums” on April, 2021.
Since last year our online workshop programme is established on a double path proposing thematic approaches about the actuality such as pandemic and regional encounters over the World such as sports in South America and now sporting heritage and museums in Europe. For this purpose we invite a new initiative which prepares a proposition of sports heritage connection for the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe.
The intense participation and interest into our webinars, encourages us to continue to organize events, to initiate more concrete collaborations, activities and especially a sustainable network on sports museums. During the year, we will continue our meetings and we also would like to discuss with all our participants about a solid working group that can influence the world of sports museums.
To create more synergy between sports museums do not hesitate to contact us, to share your activity, to propose more… You are openly invited to take part in this international initiative.
Burçak Madran
President of ICMAH
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
We continue our exchange today with the various sports museums, whatever they may be.
This time, the webinar will deal with European museums, whether they are club museums such as the World Rugby Museum or whether they present some aspects of sport such as Olympism in The Hungarian Olympic and Sports Museum.
Other museums, as we shall see this afternoon, preserve collections relating to sport within less specific, more diversified establishments, such as the collections of the Department of Physical Education and Sport History of the National Museum in Prague.
Others deal more broadly with societal issues, such as the Museum of Sports and Tourism in Warsaw, a permanent exhibition that looks at the history of sport, showing in particular how politics and wars have affected the Polish sporting spirit.
In any case, all of them, are generally exceptionally lively units that react to contemporary social needs. And this, is what we will see, with the Olympic Museum in Slovakia, with which, we will conclude our exchanges this afternoon.
Marie Grasse
Sports Museums Working Group Coordinator
PROGRAMME
OPENING SPEECH
13.30 – 13.40
Opening Speech by Burçak Madran, Chair of ICMAH
PRESENTATION OF THEME
13.40 – 13.45
Theme presentation by Marie Grasse, Moderator
PRESENTATIONS
13.45 – 14.00
WORLD RUGBY MUSEUM – McGowan Phil (United Kingdom)
Sports Stadia Museums - challenges and opportunities
14.00 – 14.15
NÁRODNÍ MUZEUM - Lomíček Jan (Czech Republic)
Collections of the Department of Physical Education and Sport History of the National Museum in Prague
14.15 – 14.30
MUSEUM OF SPORTS AND TOURISM IN WARSAW - Puszkarski Michal (Poland)
The history of Polish Sport and Olympism – permanent exhibition of the Sports and Tourism Museum in Warsaw”
14.30 – 14.45
HUNGARIAN OLYMPIC AND SPORTS MUSEUM - Szabo Lajos (Hungary)
The Hungarian Olympic and Sports Museum – Past, Present, Future
14.45 – 15.00
SLOVAK OLYMPIC AND SPORTS MUSEUM – Zdenka Letenayova (Slovakia)
The process of the musealisation of museum objects
15.00 – 15.15
ASSOCIATION FORESHADOWING ASSOCIATION FOR A CULTURAL ROUTE OF EUROPEAN SPORT HERITAGE – John Palfrey
European Sport Routes - Project presentation and update
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