RE-ORG Belgium

Description: National programme, distance coaching, hands-on workshop, conference

Participants: 8 museums (16 participants) from all regions of Belgium: Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia in Year 1 and 8 additional partner museums in Year 2

Organizers and partners: Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) in partnership with ICCROM, the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO), the Flemish Interface Centre for Cultural Heritage (FARO), the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and Provincie Antwerpen. The initial workshop was held at the Cinquantenaire Museum in Brussels

Further information: The ICCROM website includes articles related to RE-ORG Belgium. A series of videos related to RE-ORG Belgium is available.

Related activities: The International RE-ORG Seminar: Reconnecting with Collections in Storage (28 – 29 September 2016) was the first international seminar on storage reorganization. It was held at the Royal Museums of Art and History (KMKG-MRAH) in Brussels, Belgium and featured 25 talks by speakers from Argentina, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Guatemala, Greece, India, Serbia and Switzerland, along with 10 poster presentations. Gaël de Guichen, Special Advisor to the Director-General of ICCROM, gave a keynote presentation entitled “Reorganizing Museum Storage: An 80-year journey… and still a way to go!”