Thematic Axes

Preventive conservation and restoration of heritage in museums: deterioration, environmental aspects, and criteria for storage and/or exhibition, experiences and practices.
Scientific research applied to the conservation and/or restoration of heritage in museums, theoretical and practical aspects related to the measurement and evaluation of deterioration based on the prevailing environmental variables.
Light and its effects on the conservation of heritage in museums, theoretical and practical aspects.
Other environmental variables and their effects on the conservation of heritage in museums, theoretical and practical aspects.
Caring for museum collections: registration, inventory, and digitization.
The role of new technologies in museums in the conservation and/or restoration of heritage.

1. Heritage Preservation in Museums. Theories and practices.

2. The exhibition spaces. Theories and practices

Design and assembly of exhibitions and museum scripts, experiences and practices.
New technologies in museums and their application in exhibition design, theoretical and practical aspects.
Light and its influence on the display and perception of the exhibited objects.
Museum-houses as heritage repository. Existing dilemma.
City centers historic areas as exhibition places for artistic-architectural heritage.

Museums as producers of knowledge and participants in the creation of collective identity.
Communication and education in museums, the changing role of museums today.
Irruption of virtuality in the museum-visitor relationship. Theoretical aspects, experiences and practices.
Cultural heritage management, planning and development of institutional policies. Emerging problems in the current context.
The experience in the museum, the satisfaction with the visit and the influence of the environment.

3. Communication and management in the museum in the current context