Conference program

09:00-18:00 Registration in the hotel

18:30 Transfer from the Hotel Aquincum (Verdi) to Miklós Cseri's home by bus

19:00-21:00 Welcome ceremony by Miklós Cseri at his garden

21:00 Transfer to the hotel by bus

08:30 Transfer from the Hotel Aquincum (Verdi) to Skanzen by bus

09:00 Registration in the museum

09:30-15:00 Thematic program, including box-lunch

09:30-09:50 Opening of the conference by

• Hilde Schoefs, President of AEOM
• Medea S. Ekner, Director General of ICOM
• Miklós Cseri, Director General of the host museum

09:50-10:45 Opening speech by Miklós Cseri: Szentendre’s roles

10:45-15:00 Thematic individual program in the Hungarian Open air Museum concerning the theme of the conference

• Transylvanian building complex
• Historical traumas after World War II. – (Exhibitions: Farewell to the peasantry; Malenki Robot - just a small work; Population exchange in the Southern Transdanubia regional unit)
• Wagon dwellers after World War I. – Exhibition next to the Entrance building
• Cube-shaped house, the symbol of the architecture of the 1960’ and 1970’s – Skanzen Gallery
• Educational programmes
• Virtual exhibitions

12:00-14:00 Picking up sandwich lunch in the restaurant (Inn from Jászárokszállás)

15:30-18:00 Afternoon session
Using museums as platforms for empowerment, cultural participation and social justice

Keynote speaker: Jette Sandahl (DK)
the founding director of two pioneering new museums, the Women's Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, and the Museum of World Cultures in Goteborg
Open air museums as platforms for resistance, social critique and planetary justice

AEOM members presentation:

• Julie Rokkjær Birch, Den Gamle By: Pride over prejudice
• Helen Barker, Beamish: Well being in Beamish
• Natasha Anson, Durham – Beamish: 'Simply acres of nostalgia' or something more? Nostalgia and open-air museums
• Questions and Answers

18:20-18:50 Late afternoon session

Magic wall presentation

19:00-21:00 Dinner in the museum

21:15 Transfer to the hotel by bus

08:30 Transfer from the Hotel Aquincum (Verdi) to Skanzen by bus

09:30-12:00 Morning session

Museums reflect on historical traumas
Keynote speaker: Benedek Varga (HU) 

historian, former director of Semmelweis Medical History Museum of the Hungarian National Museum, former General Director of the Hungarian National Museum and former chair of ICOM Hungary

Museums of history – museums of memory

AEOM members presentation:

• Maret Tamjärv, Estonian Open Air Museum: ARE WE READY FOR UNTOLD STORIES? About the controversial apartment building in the Estonian Open Air Museum
• Zsolt Sári, Hungarian Open Air Museum: With an increased emphasis on promoting social justice, what is the responsibility of museums to traumatized communities?
• Aaron Ward, National Museums North Ireland: Reawakening the Ulster Folk Museum
• Questions and Answers

12:00-14:00 Lunch in the museum

14:00-16:30 Afternoon session

Members contributions and Q&A:

• Barbara Karl and Anton Reisacher, Ballenberg, Freilichtmuseum der Schweiz: Documentation and protection of the historic houses in Ballenberg Swiss Open-Air Museum
• Martin Novotný, Strážnice Open-Air Museum: Experimental research of traditional earthen buildings in the Museum of the Villages of South-East Moravia
• Mirela Ianko and Stefan Ciprian, ASTRA Museum: Museums taking responsibility for validation of craftsmen
• Questions and Answers
• Peter A. Inker, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, USA: The View from America: A reflection on the dialogue of trauma at Colonial Williamsburg
• Anke Hufschmidt, LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen: The topic of colonialism in the open-air museum
• Questions and Answers

16:00-22:00 Fireworks and dinner in Budapest

22:00 Transfer to the hotel by bus

08:30 Transfer from the Hotel Aquincum (Verdi) to Skanzen by bus

09:30-12:00 Morning session

Museums in wartime
Keynote speaker: Anastasiia Cherednychenko, chair of ICOM Ukraine

• Olov Amelin, Jamtli: How can we better help protect Ukrainian cultural heritage during the ongoing war?
• Questions and Answers
• Dr. Ulrike Sbresny, Freilichtmuseum Hessenpark GmbH: „How to present the unfathomable? – Exhibitions on Nazi crimes in a German open air museum“
• Søren Tange Rasmussen, Den Gamle By: Taking on the Popular Narrative of the German Occupation of Denmark 1940-1945 Qestions and Answers
• Questions and Answers

12:00-14:00 Lunch in the museum

14:00-16:00 Afternoon session

Members contribution:

• Anne Marie Rechendorff and Kitt Boding-Jensen, Den Gamle By: 'I’m really sorry my wife is not here today. She thinks I’m off my head.' How open-air museums can create programs for people affected by dementia
• Zsuzsanna Nagyné Batári, Hungarian Open Air Museum: An inclusive and integrating museum interpreting trauma
• Paula Popoiu, 'Dimitrie Gusti' National Village Museum: ROM(a)NOR Interferences
• Questions and Answers

15:45-20:45 A museum of the German minority. Visit and dinner in Budaörs, cooperation with Jakob Bleyer Heimatmuseum

20:45 Transfer to the hotel by bus

08:30 Transfer from the Hotel Aquincum (Verdi) to Skanzen by bus

09:30-12:00 Morning session

• Workshop about SDG of OAM
• Workshop about open air museum’s definition
• Workshop about the statue of AEOM

12:00-14:00 Lunch in the museum

14:00-16:00 Afternoon session

General meeting of AEOM

16:00 Transfer back to the hotel

18:15 Transfer back to the museum

19:00-22:00 Farewell party

22:00 Transfer to the hotel by bus