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Museo de Cáceres
Escrito en el tiempo (Written in Time) (9:00 am – 2:30 pm)
Inauguration, Workshop, Educational programme.
Educational workshops:
“Las aventuras y desventuras del intrépido Ulises” ("The adventures and misadventures of intrepid Ulysses"),
puppet workshop based on Homer's Odyssey.
“Cuéntame cómo era”, (“Tell me how it was”), workshop on the memory of our culture and our city through
the transmission of knowledge and experiences of our elders.
“Arqueólogo por un día” (“Be an Archaeologist for the Day”), workshop with theory and practical information
on archaeological excavations, methods and treatment of archaeological finds.
“Jugando a ser epigrafista” (“Play to be an epigraphist”), workshop on the development of a workbook with
different casts of Roman and Christian inscriptions.
Concert by a group of flutists from the Cáceres Conservatory of Music “Hermanos Berzosa”.
The temporary exhibition “Escrito en el tiempo” ("Written in Time") displays more than one hundred objects
from the Cáceres Museum’s collection which are characterized by the presence of writings that constitute a
fundamental part of our collective memory (12.30 am)
Contact: Juan Manuel Valadés Sierra (Director)
Phone: +34 927010877
Fax: +34 927010878
Email: museocaceres@juntaextremadura.net
Address: Pza. Veletas, 1 – 10003 Cáceres, Spain
Website: http://museodecaceres.blogspot.com/
Switzerland
ICOM Switzerland
150 museums take part in IMD
Visits.
150 Swiss museums participate in IMD.
The museums’ mission to preserve memory constitutes the theme for IMD 2011: which objects and memories
do museums collect and why these particular objects? How to preserve objects both for the present and the
future? How do we explore the objects’ history? And how to share these stories with the public?
Contact: David Vuillaume (general secretary)
Phone: +41 44 218 65 88
E-mail: info@museums.ch
Address: ICOM Suisse, c/o Musée national suisse - CH-8021 Zürich, Switzerland
Website : www.museums.ch
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