{"id":2450,"date":"2020-02-25T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2020-02-25T12:50:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T12:50:34","slug":"hvad-er-safn-nyja-safnaskilgreiningin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/frettir\/2020\/02\/hvad-er-safn-nyja-safnaskilgreiningin\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a museum? The new museum definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/icom.is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ICOM<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/safnmenn.is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">F\u00cdSOS<\/a> and the museum council calls a general meeting <strong>Wednesday, March 4th at 9:30 a.m.<\/strong> at the Maritime Museum in Reykjav\u00edk, where the new ICOM definition of museums will be discussed.<\/p>\n<p>The new museum definition was presented at the general meeting of the International Council of Museums held in Kyoto in September 2019. The outcome of the meeting was to postpone the vote on the definition and call for further suggestions from members on the content of the definition.<\/p>\n<p>Jette Sandahl, chair of the committee on the new museum definition, has accepted an invitation from the Icelandic section of ICOM, F\u00cdSOS and the Museum Council to present a paper at the meeting and explain the work that has already taken place and what the goals of the current working group on the subject are.<\/p>\n<p>It is a great privilege for members of ICOM and F\u00cdSOS to have Jette come to the country and discuss whether and what impact the new definition has on museum work in Iceland. Also to provide suggestions and proposals for improvements.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting&#039;s organizing committee encourages all members and those interested in the work of museums in Iceland to attend the meeting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meeting agenda<\/strong><br \/>\nat 9.30 \u2013 Gu\u00f0n\u00fd D\u00f3ra Gestsd\u00f3ttir, chairwoman of the Icelandic section of ICOM, welcomes the meeting guests.<br \/>\nat 9:35 am \u2013 Moderator \u2013 Gu\u00f0brandur Benediktsson, curator of the Reykjav\u00edk City History Museum.<br \/>\nat 9.40 \u2013 Presentation \u2013 Jette Sandahl, Chair of the Committee on the New Museum Definition<br \/>\n10:10 a.m. \u2013 Panel discussion \u2013 each panel member presents their perspective on the new museum definition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panel participants:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00d3l\u00f6f Ger\u00f0ur Sigf\u00fasd\u00f3ttir, doctoral student in museology<br \/>\nHlynur Hallsson, curator of the Akureyri Art Museum<br \/>\nMargr\u00e9t Hallgr\u00edmsson, National Monuments Curator<br \/>\nSigurj\u00f3n Baldur Hafsteinsson, professor, museum studies, H.\u00cd.<\/p>\n<p>The event can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/200381834507547\">Facebook.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICOM, F\u00cdSOS and the Museum Council are calling for a general meeting on Wednesday 4 March at 9.30 am at the Maritime Museum in Reykjav\u00edk, where the new ICOM definition of a museum will be discussed. The new definition of a museum was presented at the General Assembly of the International Council of Museums held in Kyoto in September 2019. The outcome of the meeting was to postpone the vote on the definition and call for further \u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oflokkad"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions\/2453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}