COMCOL news

Léontine Meijer-van Mensch: COMCOL in the years 2011-2013

Conference report

Freda Matassa: Lending for Europe

Essays

Peter van Mensch: The musealisation of Knut. Dilemmas in the relationships between zoos and museums
Jean Tormey: Getting to Grips with the Butler Gallery Art Collection

Call for participation/collaboration

Patrick Van den Nieuwenhof: Europa Ludens

COMCOL news

Eva Fägerborg: Report from Shanghai

Speeches at COMCOL’s meetings in Shanghai

Peter van Mensch: Why a new International Committee for Collecting?
Léontine Meijer-van Mensch: Contemporary tendencies in the practice, theory and ethics of collecting
Eva Fägerborg: Samdok and the pre-history of COMCOL

Essay

Etienne Boumans: Muder in the museum. Reflections on Peter van Mensch’s essay in COMCOL Newsletter 11

COMCOL news – Programme in Shanghai

Research Projects; Calls for assistance
Harriet Purkis: Call for examples of everyday mass produced objects
2010 International Museums & Mobile Survey

Essays
Peter van Mensch:
“Against all norms and values. Dilemmas of collecting controversial contemporary objects”

Elisabeth Tietmeyer & Renée E. Kistemaker:
“Collecting the present – historical and ethnographical   approaches: the case of the entrepreneurs”

New book
“Encouraging Collections Mobility – A Way Forward for Museums in Europe” 

Sofia Seifarth:
“A Taste of Europe – why do we eat like this?”

Tanja Roženbergar Šega:
“Don’t throw pots away”

Ylva Jannok Nutti & Anna Westman Kuhmunen:
“Sámi youth in three countries”

Ilze Knoka:
“A comment on the role of collections in museum identity”;

Just launched:
“Collections Mobility/Lending for Europe”

Peter van Mensch and Léontine Meijer-van Mensch:
“Collecting as intangible heritage”

Andreas Wenzel:
Call for Project-Partners: Research/Collection-Project “Contemporary Children’s toys in Europe”

Ana Luisa Sánchez Laws:
“A new cataloguing system and social media services for the Panama Viejo Museum and Monumental Site”‘

Heng Wu:
“Chinese Regional Museums: Museum Change in the Social Context of China”

Léontine Meijer-van Mensch and Hans-Peter Bartels:
“The City Museum Düsseldorf and the participation paradigm”

Arjen Kok:
The New Collecting in The Netherlands and a workshop at the Reinwardt Academy.

From the editors Eva Fägerborg and Catherine Marshall

Eva Fägerborg and Peter van Mensch:
“ICOM proposal approved – birth of COMCOL”.

From the editors

Eva Fägerborg and Peter van Mensch:
“December next opportunity for ICOM proposal to be considered”

Jouetta van der Ploeg:
“Zoetermeer’s Room of Marvels”: a follow-up

Frank Bergevoet:
“Collection Mobility 2.0/Lending for Europe 2009- 2011″.

Eva Fägerborg and Peter van Mensch:
“Proposal regarding the establishment of an International ICOM Committee on Collecting”

Elisabeth Tietmeyer and Zvjezdana Antos:
“Entrepreneurial Cultures in European Cities”

Ilze Knoka:
“An observation of culture heritage use”.

Eva Fägerborg:
“ICOM proposal”

Antti Metsänkylä and Outi Järvinen:
“New collaboration network in Finland”

Rachael Vincent: “Local Histories, Global Cultures: Contemporary Collecting in Transnational Space. The start of a PhD research project at the Museum of the Riverina in New South Wales, Australia”

Jouetta van der Ploeg:
“A Quest; “Zoetermeer’s Room of Marvels”, February – April 2009, City Museum Zoetermeer”

Maike Smelt:
“Preserving tomorrow’s heritage today – a conference report on computer heritage”.

Kathrin Pabst:
“My body – my truth: A new project within contemporary documentation or: What could happen when you place an ad in the paper”

Anne Britt Ylvisåker:
“Museum collecting in the age of virtuallity”

Léontine Meijer and Peter van Mensch:
“Teaching theory, practice and ethics of collecting at the Reinwardt Academie”

Patrick Van den Nieuwenhof:
“Private collections and collectors in Flanders”.

From the editors

International bibliography on collecting

Pop Peth:
“Exhibiting contemporary music in a gallery context” Pop Peth project team/Owain Rhys;

Graziella Belloni:
“The Bird’s Eyes”

Zarka Vujic:
“Contemporary collecting as a subject of courses in Museum Studies in Zagreb”

Suzanne Lyle:
“Maintaining Contemporaneity: A new policy for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland”.

Arjen Kok:
“Disposal – The Declaration of Amsterdam”

Dieuwertje Wijsmuller:
“Deaccessioning on an international level”

Ilze Knoka:
“The daring dreams are coming true: the general catalogue of the collection of the Latvia museum”

Ingrid M Nilsson and Anna Ulfstrand:
“Photography as a tool in contemporary studies”.

Eva Fägerborg:
“Formation of an international museum network for collecting issues”

Peter Du Rietz:
“Connecting the Collecting: New Challenges and New Possibilities in the Age of Globalisation”

Elin von Unge and Britta Söderqvist:
“In search of common grounds”

Rebecca Thomlinson:
“Rationalising our collections at the British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA)”

Charlotte Hyltén-Cavallius:
“Remembering Migration”

Cecilia Hammarlund-Larsson and Ann Grönhammar:
“Citizenship ceremonies – a theme for international cooperation?”