FUEN supports meeting of European museums at the Museum Ladin

The EUROPEADA offers many opportunities to engage in networking among the European minorities. The Museum Ladin Ciastel de Tor used the occasion to organise the conference “Strengthen from within, communicate towards the outside: Museums for majorities and minorities”. The international conference should stimulate the thinking about the museums of language minorities in Europe and to show how to promote and protect their cultural heritage.  

Representatives of the ICOM (International Council of Museums), members of minorities, academics, but in particular museum directors from several European countries, among them representatives of the museums of the Ladins, Slovenes from Italy, Sorbs, Germans in Denmark, Cimbrians, Sardinians and Roma had the opportunity to present their museums and exhibition projects.

The FUEN supports this initiative. “Networking of minorities in several areas is our strength. We are glad that after the initiative with the theatres in 2012, we were able to bring together the museums now.  Museums are important cornerstones for the identities of the minorities”, said Susann Schenk, FUEN Secretary General.

Museum Ladin Ciastel de Tor in St. Martin, South Tyrol

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