NEMO bjuder in till gratis webinar om museer, hälsa och välbefinnande

Registreringen för det kostnadsfria webinaret "Museums, Health and Well being" som ges av NEMO (Network of European Museum Organisations) och Mark O'Neill den 16 juni 2017 har nu öppnat. Webinaret kommer att diskutera museernas roll och bidrag till folkhälsa. Webinariet är kostnadsfritt och hålls på engelska. Se mer information och anmälan nedan.

With Museums, Health and Well being, NEMO continues the successful series of free webinars.

This session will deal with the potential of museums to contribute to public health.
Many museum staff intuitively believe museums make a positive contribution to people's health and well being, and are increasingly developing activities and projects which seek to enhance their impact. This webinar aims to look beyond individual projects and to make a strategic assessment of the potential contribution of museums to human well being. It will review the evidence for the health benefits of museum visiting, in the context of a broad history of how museums have related to public health in the past 150 years. Some public health academics argue that their field needs to enter a new phase in order to address the diseases of modernity (obesity, mental ill-health, lonliness). This new phase will require a more holistic approach based on fostering social trust and inclusive narratives which enhance people's sense of leading meaningful lives. The webinar will conclude with an assessment of the potential of museums to contribute to this emerging approach to public health.

The webinar will be facilitated by Mark O'Neill, former director of Policy & Research for Glasgow Life, the charity which delivers arts, museums, libraries and sports services for the City of Glasgow. Mark worked in various positions in museums in Glasgow after he moved there in 1985, serving as Head of Glasgow Museums from 1998-2009. During this period he led the teams who set up the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, one of only five multi-faith museums in the world and refurbished Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum. He also wrote the masterplan for the Zaha Hadid-designed Riverside Museum (European Museum of the Year 2012). He is particularly interested in the social purposes of cultural institutions, in people's motivations to take part in cultural activities and in the health benefits of cultural participation.

The webinar will take place on 16 June 2017 at 15.00h (CEST) and is organised in cooperation with MICC - Media Integration and Communication Centre and NEMECH - New Media for Cultural Heritage.

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