Nicosia programme
XVIII Annual Meeting of ICOMON, Nicosia 2011
Money Museums Communicating with the Public
MONDAY 10th OCTOBER
9.30-10.15 - conference opening
welcome speeches from representatives of Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, ICOM Cyprus, and ICOMON10.15-11.00 - keynote speaker
Despoina Evgenidou11.00-11.30 - coffee break
11.30-13.30 - session A - museums
Lara Scharz, 'Small change?'Mandakini Shrestha, 'Money museum communicating with the public'Joëlle Bouvry, 'Les publics: de la tradition aux nouvelles technologies. Les ambitions au Cabinet des Monnaies et Médailles de Marseille'Karen Lee, 'Reaching out: coins, community and commotion at the National Museum of American History'13.30-15.00 - lunch break
15.00-18.00 - session B - banks
Lamia Fersi Boussada, 'Currency Museum of the Central Bank of Tunisia: collection and museum'Hana Ouaz Toumi, 'The history of the nusmismatic collection of the Central Bank of Tunisia'Jennifer Adam, 'The Bank of England Museum: collections and communication at the UK's central bank'Gerasimos Notaras, 'Creating a research centre for the Greek banknote. A precondition for raising awareness about and studying the wealth of information offered by banknotes'Hasti Dwilputranti and Tongam Simanjuntak, 'Communication with the public at Museum Bank Indonesia'19.30-21.30 - opening of the exhibition 'How much does it cost? Our daily bread from ancient to modern times' and reception
TUESDAY 11th OCTOBER
9.00-12.30 - visit to old town Nicosia museums
12.30-14.00 - lunch break
14.00-15.30 - session C - educational
Amelia Dowler, 'Summer schools: communicating the work of money museums to the next generation'Maria Lempessi, 'The Greekk banknote as explored through the learning programmes of the Historical Archive of the National Bank of Greece'Eleni Papaefthymiou, 'The numismatic collection of the Foundation of the Hellenic World' 15.30-16.00 - break
16.00-17.00 - session D - collections
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, 'Coins in US museums'Ann Destrooper-Georgiades, 'Numismatic research in the collections of the department of antiquities of Cyprus and the communication with the public'17.00-18.00 - session E - history
Francine Farr, 'Broadcasting the bridge between the bead and the coin'Weirong Zhou, 'Why copper-based coins used in ancient China over 2000 years'
WEDNESDAY 12th OCTOBER
9.00-11.00 - session F - projects
Despo Pilides, 'Digitizing the antiquities of the Department of Antiquities'Richard Doty, 'Mint meltdown, or, sometimes a good idea turns bad'Karla Santos, 'Museological plan: essential strategic tool'Walter Bloom, 'Mintmarks and mintmasters project' 11.00-11.30 - break
11.30-13.00 - round table discussions
13.00-14.00 - lunch break
14.00-15.00 - ICOMON members' meeting
17.00-22.00 - visit to Ayia Anna archaeological site, and farewell dinner