The 2015 conference was a great success, providing the opportunity for roughly 150 participants representing over a dozen countries to meet, reconnect and think deeply and constructively to finding common solutions to the challenges of the sector. A number of the conference goers first attended a workshop of the ICOM NATHIST Wildlife Trafficking Working Group. A report of that meeting …
New Post-conference Tour Opportunity for Taiwan 2015
Our hosts have made available a very exciting opportunity for an optional post-conference tour to Dasyueshan National Forest Recreation Area. The two-day tour starts on Saturday October 24 and is free, thanks to the generosity of our hosts, the National Taiwan Museum. Click on this link this link to find out more of this very special attraction in Taiwan. Dasyueshan …
Live Tweeting the 2015 Conference
We’ve started a twitter account which is https://twitter.com/NTMuseum1908. It’s already live and a great place for up-to-the-minute updates on preparations for the meeting. All the articles we publish from the conference will also come with a hashtag #ICOMnathist15. See you there!
Registration and Abstract deadline extended
The deadline for submitting a conference abstract has been been extended. The new deadline is now the same as the deadline for conference registration: August 14th. Please visit the conference web page for updated information and to download the registration form. As always, please contact us if you have questions.
Professor Wen-Hao Chou, 2015 Keynote Speaker
ICOM NATHIST warmly welcomes Professor Wen-Hao Chou, Academic Deputy Director of the National Museum of Natural Science as a keynote speaker at the 2015 International Conference. Before joining the Collection and Research Scheme, Professor Chou was an exhibit coordinator largely involved in the museum’s planning and development work in 1981 – 1986. Upon the completion of the exhibits and other …
Dr Gerald Dick, 2015 Keynote Speaker
We are delighted to announce Dr. Gerald Dick, Executive Director of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums as a keynote speaker at the 2015 ICOM NATHIST conference at the Taiwan National Museum. Dr Gerald Dick did his PhD in behavioural ecology under the supervision of Hans Winkler and the late Konrad Lorenz. After working in applied nature conservation, he …
Learn more about Taipei
The National Taiwan Museum in Taipei is our host for the 2015 conference, from 19-23 October. If you haven’t been to Taipei before, this is an excellent chance to visit this beautiful city and its surroundings. About Taipei Taipei (means “North of Taiwan”), officially known as Taipei City (Chinese: 臺北市 or 台北市; pinyin: Táiběi Shì; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Chhī), is the …
ICOM NATHIST 2015 – Save the Date
SAVE THE DATE We are very pleased to confirm that the 2015 ICOM NATHIST conference will be hosted by the National Museum of Taiwan, in Taipei from Tuesday October 20th to Friday October 23rd, with a pre-conference reception on Monday October 19th. WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT Conference Theme Natural History Museums: Building Our Future We will be building on the excellent thinking that …
Report on the 2014 ICOM NATHIST conference
The 2014 conference of ICOM NATHIST, held in Croatia, was a great success, both for our ability to come together once again as colleagues and to explore the theme of the conference The Future of Natural History Museums: Relevance, Balance and Innovation. Before the conference, we brought together a group of experts to consider the issue of museums and illicit trafficking …
Profile: Carlos Roberto F. Brandão, Keynote Speaker 2014 Conference
ICOM NATHIST is delighted to announce our second keynote speaker for the 2014 conference, Carlos Roberto F. Brandão, who will join with Frank Howarth in presenting perspectives on the future of natural history museums, specifically to use a working definition of curation to emphasize how natural history museums can increase their relevance in the contemporary world. Carlos is presently Deputy …