The Communications Museum in Macao will organise the Seminars of International Museum Day 2014 on 2 and 3 May at the auditorium of the museum as a prelude to the celebration of the International Museum Day (IMD) 2014.

Museum professionals and scholars from Hong Kong and Taiwan are invited to share with the audience their views on the IMD theme (Museum collections make connections). In the first seminar for museum professionals on 2 May, Ms. Sit Karen, Chief Curator of Hong Kong Science Museum, and Ms. Pang Maggie, Chief Manager of File & Cultural Exchange, LSCD, Hong Kong, will talk about Old Topic, New Experience and Find a Way out of Conventional Marketing Approaches respectively.

In addition to the first seminar for museum professionals, the second seminar will be free of charge for the general public, educators and secondary students. During this open seminar that will be held in the afternoon of 3 May, Prof. Chou Kung-shin, Ph.D., Chair Professor, Graduate Institute of Museum Studies of Fu Jen Catholic University, will talk about Museum and Education, and Mr. Chan Shing Wai, Head of Conservation Office, LCSD, Hong Kong, will talk about Museum & Conservation – The Behind-the-Scene Vision.

For more information, please visit: http://macao.communications.museum, www.museums.gov.mo and http://macao.communications.museum/eng/activities/2014/imd_seminar/index.html