Gomel, State Historical and Cultural Institution "Gomel Palace and Park Ensemble" (Palace of the Rumyantsevs and Paskeviches).
The first training seminar of the Regional Museum Academy-2019 was held in Gomel. Its main theme was formulated as "Museums at the crossroads of history and culture of memory." The referent of the training seminar was Dr. Christiane Janeke (Germany).
The main group of participants (16 people) arrived in Gomel on the morning of April 25 at the Rumyantsev-Paskevich Palace of the Gomel Palace and Park Ensemble, where the grand opening of the educational program of the Regional Museum Academy and the main classes of the first seminar took place.
The next day, April 26, employees of various museums of the Gomel region joined the group of future museum trainers taking a full course of the Regional Museum Academy.
Director of the Museum of the Gomel Palace and Park Ensemble Oksana Toropova welcomes the participants of the first training seminar of the Regional Museum Academy-2019.
Dr. Christiana Janeke (Germany) and the director of the Goethe Institute in Minsk, Mr. Jakob Rachek discuss the course of the first training seminar.
The director of the Goethe Institute in Minsk, Mr. Jakob Raczek, took an active part in the first training seminar of the project "Regional Museum Academy-2019".
For a quick acquaintance, the participants of the training seminar were offered a method of working in pairs: two participants get to know each other and then introduce each other. Tatyana Klimovich (Svetlogorsk Museum of Local History) and Lyudmila Golosko (Svetoch School Museum, Secondary School No. 3, Zelva), members of the main group, work in the frame.
The first acquaintance in pairs trains the skills of quick self-presentation and communication skills: Anna Bazarevich (Braslav) and Yuri Abdurakhmanov (Smilovichi) make up each other's brief resumes.
All workshop participants had the opportunity to talk about their places of work and feel in the context of the community. Anna Anisimova, Head of the Department of Museum Pedagogy of the Mogilev Regional Museum of Local Lore, a member of the main group, is speaking.
Lyudmila Golosko (Zelva), after meeting and compiling a brief summary of each other, introduces Dmitry Apanovich, director of the Turov Museum of Local Lore.
Chairperson of ICOM Belarus Tatyana Bembel starts the training "Family History and/or Museum History. Contradictions and Synchronization", which was conducted according to the world kafe methodology.
Speaker Irina Yudina, researcher at the Vetka Museum of Old Believers and Belarusian Traditions (Gomel Region), member of the main group.
Veronika Akudovich, researcher at the National Historical Museum (Minsk), member of the main group.
Anna Bazarevich, chief curator of the Braslav Museum Association (Vitebsk region), member of the main group, is speaking.
Completed task of one of the workshops: a visual sketch-concept of a hypothetical exhibition project "LIFE AFTER" for the anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
The second day of the training seminar coincided with the anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, so special attention was paid to the discussion of the questions “What museums in Belarus contribute to the disclosure of the discourse of national history?”, “Which national museum is the leading one in Belarus?”, “How do you assess the state of these museums regarding memory and historical politics?”, as well as the traveling exhibition of the MOC Minsk: “25 years after Chernobyl - People - Places - Solidarity”, through the prism of this event.
As an example of cooperation, Christiane Janeke showed the group the exhibition "Death Camp Trostenets", which was exhibited in the exhibition hall of the Gomel University. F.Skorina during the training seminar.
Dr. Janeke led a curatorial tour of the exhibition, where she spoke about the background of the project, about the concept of “memorial landscape”, as well as about the challenges that emerged in the process of working on the exhibition.
