CALL FOR PAPERS

DEMHIST Conference, Amsterdam 14th to 16th October, 2002

"The Historic House Museum as an Important Witness of National and
Local Identities."

Dear DEMHIST members and friends,

I would like to encourage you to attend the 2002 DEMHIST conference
which will be held in Amsterdam from the 14th to the 16th of October,
2002, and I would like to thank Dr. Wim Jacobs of the Netherlands
Institute for Cultural Heritage for volunteering to host the
conference.

The theme will be "The Historic House Museum as an Important Witness
of National and Local Identities."

If you are a voting member of DEMHIST, and you would like to present
a paper, or moderate a practical workshop, please send us a brief
curriculum vitae and a one-page abstract which clearly specifies how
your topic relates to the theme by 17 May 2002. The conference
committee will inform everyone of the program as soon as possible.
The preliminary program then will be available.

Please send the material via e-mail (if you put the material in an
attached file to the e-mail, please use the RTF format) to the
DEMHIST address for issues other than membership:
demhistmuseobagattivalsecchi.org

To join DEMHIST as a voting member, you may contact the ICOM central
office in Paris:

Mr. Tito Chan, Executive Assistant, Membership Service
ICOM
Maison de l'UNESCO - 1, rue Miollis
75732 Paris cedex 15 - France
tel: +33 (0) 1 47 34 05 00
fax: +33 (0) 1 43 06 78 62
e-mail: secretariaticom.org
telex: UNESCO 270 602 / 204 461

Whereas there is no extra dues for becoming a voting member of
DEMHIST, for those who join as non-voting members a small fee payable
directly to the DEMHIST committee is obligatory to help us cover
communication costs. Please contact us for more information.

In closing, please note that the Acts for the DEMHIST 2000 conference
which took place in Genova with the theme, "Historic House Museums
Speak to the Public: Spectacular Exhibits vs.a Philological
Interpretation of History," are available for Euro 13.0 plus postage
and handling. Please contact us for further details

Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you in Amsterdam in 2002.
Best regards,

Rosanna Pavoni
Secretary-Treasurer, DEMHIST-ICOM's international committee for
historic
house museums
Director, Bagatti Valsecchi Museum
Star Meyer
DEMHIST
demhistmuseobagattivalsecchi.org