The International Foundation – Forum of Slavic Cultures (FSC) organized the 11th International Summer School of Museology in co-operation with the Faculty of Humanistic Studies of the University of Primorska, Euroepean Museum Academy and with the support of the Municipality of Piran. The event was of truly international nature, it was attended by the museum professionals and students from ten different countries.
This year’s edition of the International Summer School of Museology was dedicated to images and, more specifically, to digital narratives in museums. “In the abundance of images both are crucial – the image itself as well as a medium that takes it ‘to the outside world’. This holds true also for museums where history is not presented solely through objects and their images but simultaneously represents a space for creations of meanings, modes of remembering the past and placing those memories into the present,” the FSC Director Andreja Rihter, PhD, said, and added that museum visual representations pursue the trends of modern society and that the examples of good practices presented by the lecturers shed some light on this phenomenon. Thirty participants, students, curators as well as other professionals in the field of museology came to Slovenia from ten different countries: Poland, the Czech Republic, the Russian Federation, Montenegro, Turkey, Italy, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia.
The International Foundation – Forum of Slavic Cultures presented Piranova – the International Heritage Research Centre in Piran. The next project is to take place as soon as the end of August – in the framework of the international competition »Museums in Short«; the best short museum presentation films from all over the world will be shown and pronounced under the starry night of Piran.
