Museum Collections of the Ionian University Discussions for the museum 2022-2023 Lecture Museum and well-being! Chryssi Vombogianni, Museologist - Conservator of Antiquities, Ephorate of Antiquities Athens City

How does the creation of an ephemeral participatory museum enhance the effort for social change on issues affecting the local community by the local community? The combination of socio-cultural empowerment with museology and museum education is at the core of the Emerge method.

For the Museum Collections of the Ionian University, the production of various cultural works aimed at all audiences, both specific and non-specific, is a key priority. In this context and keeping up the policy of collaborations, it has developed the museological study for the temporary exhibition "The Industrial Heritage of Corfu, 19th - 20th century", which is hosted until 5 (...)

Museum Collections of the Ionian University Discussions for the museum 2022-2023 Lecture Designing "experiences" in museums and libraries: Models and practices from business to cultural organisations. Ioannis Poulios, Assistant Professor of the Department of Tourism, Ionian University. Location: Ionian University, I. Theotoki 72 2nd floor Classroom 2.39

The Museum of the Ionian University, following its efforts to create a climate that encourages dialogue between communities and to maintain contact with museums in general, continues for the second year the series of lectures, under the title, " Discussions for the Museum 2022-2023". The program begins in November 2022 and will run through May 2023, with one guest each month. The guests, experts in museums and heritage management, will discuss issues related to the sustainability of museum institutions, the design of participatory actions, the influence of museums on social change, and the cultivation of positive psychology through their operation.

The Municipal Gallery of Corfu in collaboration with the Albert Cohen Corfu Association present the exhibition "The Industrial Heritage of Corfu, 19th – 20th century", on the occasion of the publication of the homonymous bilingual book by the Albert Cohen Association in 2021. The scientific team of the Museum Collections of the Ionian University is curating the exhibition under the (...)

The Museum of the Ionian University, with Director the Associate Professor of the Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology Stavros Vlizos, and the Interactive Arts Laboratory (InArts) of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, with Director the Associate Professor Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, organize online tribute for the eighty years since the death of JAMES JOYCE. The artist and director Vouvoula Skoura curates the tribute, with the co-operation of the Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Audio and Visual Arts Elena Hamalidi. Online tribute: https://joyce.inarts.eu/

The Museum Collections of the Ionian University continue their effort to map the issues currently concerning out cultural institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic, and engage in discussion with other museums of the region of the Ionian Islands.

Museums around the world celebrate International Museum Day on 18th of May every year. Given the current adverse situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, events planned for 2020, will be held digitally for the first time.

The Museum of the Ionian University invites you to an open discussion on Friday, January 17th, 2020. The event will take place at the Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology of the Ionian University.

The Library – Information Centre along with the Museum of the Ionian University organize a book launch on Tuesday, January 14, 2020, at 20:00, at the Central Library of the Ionian University.

The Ionian University incorporates now a University Museum, an institution with a history in Europe since the 17th century. University museums belong to a special category of museums that are hosted in the premises of academic institutions and aim at promoting knowledge and familiarizing the academic community with museum spaces.

The Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology and the Museum of the Ionian University organize events on Friday, May 17th, 2019, on the occasion of the International Museum Day 2019, which this year has as its theme "Museums as hubs of culture, the future of tradition".

On Friday,17th May, 2019 at 19.00 in the amphitheater 1 of the Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology, Niki Nikonanou, Associate Professor of the University of Thessaly, will give a lecture on: "Participatory and inclusive Museum: invitations and perspectives for museum education".

The Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology and the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, with the support of the Fulbright Foundation in Greece, organize a lecture by Dr. Jennifer Germann, from the Department of Art History at Ithaca College, New York State, USA: “Engaging Dido And Lady Elizabeth: Feminist Interventions In The Past And For The Future”. The event will take place on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 - 7:00 pm. at I. Theotokis 72.