• Date: Sunday, October 5 - Friday, October 10, 2014
• Venue: 4F Seminar Room(L), 1F Reviewing Room, National Museum of Ethnology
• Inquiries: 10-1 Senri Expo Park, Suita, Osaka 565-8511, Japan
• e-mail: ito [at] idc.minpaku.ac.jp

Purpose

National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) provides academics and researchers an opportunity of collection reviewing. The reviews are made by experts invited for cooperation in preparing exhibitions, implementing joint research projects, organizing workshops for the Hokkaido Ainu association craftsperson training etc. Of course, not only Minpaku but many other public institutes in Japan provide such opportunities making use of Open Access Resources. The process of data revision and complementation while reviewing of a collection is as important for every museum as acquisition of new artifacts. However, no proper format for this process exists and results achieved during it are often lost due to not being corrected or added to the existing catalog immediately and automatically.

In this workshop we will focus mainly on the importance of consulting and sharing information between the museum and the source community. We will also discuss the way of registering information of the reviewed item preparing appropriate documentation. Special lectures are planned to take place during the workshop. Five Hopi religious leaders will attend to discuss and assess approximately 280 Kachina dolls of the Minpaku collection.

Program