Submission of proposals by 20 December 2024
Registration required before 15 January 2025
Platform : Jitsi Meet (the link will be sent to participants at a later date)
Organisation Natural History Museum of Marseille - C. BORRELY, A. MEFFRAY & Aix Marseille University - CNRS - Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO) - V. GROSSI
The fundamental role of natural history museums is to participate in scientific research, by contributing to naturalist programmes on various scales (local, national, international), but also by working to make their collections accessible to researchers. Museums are also heavily involved in training students, particularly in the natural sciences.
This webinar, aimed at researchers from all backgrounds as well as those working in museums or in charge of heritage collections in the south of France, aims to (re)bring together those involved in these two environments, which are sometimes not very close, and to discuss their practices around the conservation and study of scientific collections.
Although they have common and essential missions, at least through their "Musée de France" accreditation, French museums do not all have the same status (e.g. MNHN), the same staff or the same capacity to receive and make collections available to scientists. The aim of this session is to discuss the way in which regional museums operate and to inform those involved in research about the status of collections and the legal and regulatory provisions relating to heritage specimens and their 'administrative life'. In particular, it will provide an opportunity to discuss the procedures and committees involved in authorising the taking of samples and/or invasive studies on heritage specimens, as well as the legal and regulatory frameworks that apply to them. heritage specimens, constraints linked to the mobility of collections on a national and international scale, etc.
The papers due for the session 1 will last a maximum of 15 minutes, with the possibility of presenting a slide show (6 slides maximum).
The life of natural history museum collections is punctuated by different types of events (exhibitions, outreach, promotion), with research activities taking pride of place. Whether carried out by the scientific staff of the museums themselves, by academics or as part of partnerships involving a range of players (museums, universities, associations, local authority environmental departments), research is a key component of the museum's activities, associations, local authority environmental services), this research is both a driving force behind advances in naturalist scientific knowledge and a valuable source of enrichment for museum documentation on the collections they use. The aim of this session is to illustrate, through a variety of examples, the diversity of research projects that exist, or have been completed, around naturalist collections from museum structures or, more generally, regional heritage collections.
Communications from sessions 2 and 3 are limited to a 10-minute presentation and 4 presentation slides and 2 optional slides.
The future of research into scientific and museum collections is wide open, thanks in particular to the diversification of analysis methods (microbiological, optical, (geo)chemical, environmental, etc.). The arrival of new skills in many areas of research, both in universities and in museums, means that previously unsuspected avenues of study can now be explored.
Genetic approaches, computerisation and digitisation, 3D reconstructions - these are just some of the areas of interest to both the research community and museums. The aim of this final session is to present the research prospects envisaged by researchers and/or those in charge of heritage collections, as well as to highlight the themes and study supports that will be at the heart of future research projects in scientific and heritage institutions. There will be time for questions and discussion between participants at the end of each session and at the conclusion of the webinar.
Sending Framaform communication proposals before 20 December 2024.
All participants must register on Framaform before 15 January 2025.
