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          Congratulations to the 12 finalists for the Heritage in Motion Awards 2017! The winners will be announced and celebrated at the Award Ceremony on 29 September 2017 in Skopje in Macedonia. Check the website for more information: https://www.heritageinmotion.eu/ or https://www.facebook.com/HeritageinMotion/posts/1400373423414807 The finalists are (in no particular order): The Stockholm City Museum, the Stockholm City Archive, the Stockholm City Library and the City of Stockholm Administration of Education: Stockholmskällan – SWEDEN Tinker Imagineers: Renewed Mondriaanhuis – Cradles of Abstract Art – THE NETHERLANDS ETT SpA: Enhancing artworks using Augmented and Virtual Reality: the “Ara As It Was” project – ITALY Seventh Art Productions: EXHIBITION ON SCREEN – UNITED KINGDOM ING: The Next Rembrandt – THE NETHERLANDS Agència Catalana del Patrimoni Cultural: Ullastret3D. Walking through an Iberian town from 2.200 years ago – SPAIN The Society of Benevolence (Maatschappij van Weldadigheid) (NL), the National Prison Museum (het Nationaal Gevangenismuseum) (NL), Kempens Landschap (Be) and ‘de Ommerschans’ Association (Vereniging de Ommerschans) (NL): Seven stories – BELGIUM Roald Dahl Museum and story centre / Signly: Signly @ The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre – UNITED KINGDOM Diadrasis Ladas I & Co GP: Athens Time Walk – GREECE Historic Royal Palaces/Chomko & Rosier United Kingdom: The Lost Palace – UNITED KINGDOM ArtofCorner: VR Apps “Artist’s Studio Utrillo-Valadon in Montmartre, PARIS” – FRANCE Jewish Cultural Quarter: Jewish Monument –...

              The Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality, International Conferences are an initiative of Frank Go, professor emeritus Tourism Management of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and Karin Elgin-Nijhuis, managing director of consultancy Elgin & Co., Netherlands. The conferences, focus on the leading question: “How can tourism destinations succeed in attracting tourists while simultaneously engaging all stakeholders in contributing to the preservation of natural and cultural heritage?” The conferences offer a unique forum for attendees from academia, industry, government, and other organisations to share knowledge and experience. The conference agenda is designed to be practitioner-friendly while offering room for critical reflection on heritage and tourism practices and institutions. The conferences are is of great value to those working for destination management and marketing organisations (DMOs), ministries of tourism, city governments, economic development agencies, designers, technology providers and researchers and practitioners working in fields such as heritage, tourism, hospitality, marketing, archaeology, architecture and geography. Read more:...

Dear colleagues, we would be highly appreciated if you could spend 15 minutes of your valuable time to complete a survey to identify demands and stakeholders in the field of digital cultural heritage. Please follow: https://ww3.unipark.de/uc/vimm/ Outcomes of the survey will base recommendations for the EU and national funders how to further promote and develop the field of digital cultural heritage. The survey is conducted under auspices of major institutions as Europeana Foundation, ICCROM, NEMO, CIPA and INTERPOL by the Virtual Multimodal Museum (ViMM) Coordination and Support Action (CSA), funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme (CULT-COOP-8-2016). ViMM brings together leading European and international public and private sector organisations working on Virtual Museums and the wide sector of Digital Cultural Heritage to support access to high quality information and documentation to support policy development and decision making through the use of technical advances. Thank you very much in advance! Best wishes Marinos Ioannides, Rob Davies and Sander...

The 15th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH 2017) is organized by the Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization, Graz University of Technology and by Fraunhofer Austria. It aims to foster an international dialogue between ICT experts and CH scientists to advance the understanding of critical requirements for processing, managing, and delivering cultural information to a broad audience. To advance the dialogue between ICT and CH experts, GCH’17 will be held in close cooperation with the Museumsakademie of the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz, providing ample opportunity for exchange between the domains. In addition to the workshop program (September 27-29, 2017), GCH’17 offers an excursion into the Styrian countryside on Saturday, September 30, 2017. Conference Website: https://gch17.tugraz.at/  ...