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NEMO
The Network of European Museum Organisations
Advocacy, Information, Promotion and Networking
NEMO, the Network of European Museum Organisations, is an independent network of museum associations and similar bodies representing the museum community of Europe.
NEMO connects European museums and their organisations, helping to ensure their place in the cultural development of Europe. It speaks on behalf of museums, emphasising their interests and their influence on European cultural policy and initiatives, while promoting their importance to European policy makers. It stresses the role museums play in economic growth, in bringing communities together and in encouraging a diverse cultural heritage. It also supports the exchange of intelligence and information about all aspects of museums, raising matters of interest and endeavouring to find a common voice for cultural concerns in Europe.
NEMO works for over 30,000 museums in Europe and EU associate countries. It comprises the independent museum bodies of each country, campaigning for European policies that help museums to fulfil their role as cultural agencies, places of learning and keepers of heritage.
Through publications, meetings and its website NEMO is able to exchange information between museums, institutions and those concerned with policy-making.
The interim Chairwoman of NEMO, writing in the NEMO Newsletter says: “One of its (NEMO’s) major projects was its involvement in formulating a policy paper in co-operation with other civil society representatives of the European culture field, to be discussed at the Cultural Forum in September. This paper by the Civil Society Platform, ‘Access to Culture’, refers to various dimensions of the term and brings up several problems and questions that have to be solved in the different fields of work. By addressing these issues, the paper intends to contribute to the future culture policy of the European Commission.”
The NEMO Annual Meeting 2009 will be held at Linz, in Austria, from 27th to 29th November. Details may be found on the website.
‘Access to Culture’ is now available on-line, as is the NEMO Newsletter and the new ‘Partner Search’ for EU programmes and projects.
Please visit the NEMO website. |