Commonwealth Association of Museums (CAM)
Address:
10023 93 Street Edmonton Alberta T5H 1W6 Canada
Telephone: (1) 780 424 2229
Email: catherinec.cole@telus.net
Website:
www.maltwood.uvic.ca/cam
Year established: 1974
Number of subscribing members: 439
Annual expenditure:
£18,000 in 2015–16
Officers (2017-20):
President:
Dr. Richard Benjamin (UK)
Past President:
Rooksana Omar (South Africa)
Vice President:
Nirvana Persaud (Guyana)
Treasurer:
Shabnam Inanloo Dailoo (Canada)
Commonwealth Liaison:
Mrinalini Venkateswaran (UK/India)/Jess Litwin (UK)
Education Adviser:
Dr. C.P. Barclay (UK)
Secretary-General:
Catherine C. Cole (Canada)
Aims and objectives:
• Fostering and strengthening links between museums and members of the museum profession in the Commonwealth, and between museums and their communities
• Promoting a high standard of museum activity in the Commonwealth
• Encouraging lifelong learning, and assisting in professional development and training through distance learning courses, internships, workshops and seminars
• Facilitating the dissemination of knowledge and information on all professional matters
• Working in collaboration with other international and national museum organisations and other agencies in the achievement of these goals
Main activities:
• Disaster Risk Management for Caribbean Museums, Nassau, The Bahamas, 2013
• Taking it to the Streets: Museums and Community Engagement, Glasgow, 2014
• Museum Education in the Caribbean, Barbados, 2015
• 2014–18 Strategic Plan and Funding Diversification Strategy, 2014
• Participatory Governance in Museums (research report), 2015
• Access in Museums in South Asia, Jaipur, India, 2016
Study Tour of Indigenous Heritage Sites in Southern Alberta, Canada, 2017
• Indigenous Heritage Roundtable, Calgary, Canada, 2017
• Heritage and Nation Building Symposium, Calgary, Canada, 2017
• Human Remains Management in Southern Africa project (2016-2019) with workshops in Cape Town (2017) and Namibia (2018) and a website and travelling exhibition under development in collaboration with the Iziko Museums of South Africa, the Museums Association of Namibia and the National Museum of Botswana
• Migration:Cities I (Im)migration and Arrival Cities project (2016-2019) with workshops in Athens (2017), Mexico City (2017), and Frankfurt (2018) and a website under development, in collaboration with ICOM CAMOC
Recent publications:
CAM Bulletin, a bimonthly newsletter; and Access in Museums in South Asia (2016)
Forthcoming: Museums, National Identity and Indigenous Rights (working title)