The ICOM-ITC 2024 October Training Workshop begins during this beautiful golden autumn season in Jiangxi Province on October 24th. With the theme of Sustainable Museum Management: Local Challenges and Best Practices, the training workshop focuses on topics including sustainable development, strategic planning, education and sustainability, and museums’ response to climate changes. It is organized by the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the Chinese Museums Association and the Palace Museum, and co-organized by the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, and the Jingdezhen Municipal People’s Government, and supported by the Jiangxi Provincial Museum and the Jingdezhen China Ceramics Museum.
Leaders and lecturers who attended the opening ceremony included Ding Xinquan, member of the party group and deputy director of the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and director of the Jiangxi Provincial Cultural Heritage Administration; Xiao Li, member of the party group and deputy mayor of Jingdezhen Municipal People's Government; Zhu Hongwen, deputy director of the Palace Museum; Ai Jingfang, deputy secretary general of the China Museum Association; Ludovica Antonucci, coordinator for Capacity Building Programmes of the ICOM; Ana Labrador, honorary senior fellow of School of Historical and Philosophical Studies of Melbourne University and visiting scholar in Department of Social and Cultural Analysis of New York University; Ibrahim Tchan, director of the Ecomusée Tata Somba. Guan Li, party secretary and director of Jiangxi Provincial Museum, presided over this event.
During the opening ceremony, Zhu Hongwen, Ding Xinquan and Xiao Li delivered speeches. Zhu Hongwen systematically reviewed the development history of ICOM-ITC, and looked back upon the profound relationship in ceramics between the Palace Museum and the Jiangxi Province as well as Jingdezhen, pointing out the significance of building a platform for international exchanges and academic research by organizing this training workshop here.
Ding Xinquan highlighted the rich and profound historical and cultural heritage, as well as the natural ecology of Jiangxi province, hoping this workshop would broaden international horizons and explore new paths and strategies for the sustainable development of museums. Also, he sincerely expected that the participant would gain a better understanding of Jiangxi province to strengthen international friendships and promote cultural exchanges through this workshop.
Xiao Li extended a warm welcome to the lecturers and participants who came from afar, mentioning that Jingdezhen is a city with thousands of years of cultural legacy in ceramics with exquisite ceramics production skills and profound historical heritage. She hoped that the training workshop would fully utilize the unique resources and explore advanced concepts and practical experiences in museum operation and management, exhibition planning, cultural relic protection, public service, and other aspects.
The training workshop has invited senior experts from China, the United States, the Philippines, Benin, and Italy to give lectures, and attended by 30 participants including 14 Chinese participants, and 16 international participants from 14 countries across Asia, Africa, and South America.
This 10-day training workshop will carry out teaching activities in Jingdezhen and Nanchang successively. Lecturers will discuss excellent cases of global museum management through lectures, discussions, case studies, interactive exchanges, hands-on practices, reading artifacts, excursions and evaluations, in a bid to enhance professional competence, broaden international perspectives, explore new paths and strategies for the sustainable development of museums, and jointly promote high-quality development of the global museum industry.
