{"id":1192,"date":"2019-05-15T09:18:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T09:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/arc\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2019-05-15T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T09:27:22","slug":"international-museum-day-2019-and-a-special-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/arc\/2019\/05\/15\/international-museum-day-2019-and-a-special-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"International Museum Day 2019 and Special Lecture on &#8216;Scientific Advancement and Archaeological Future&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IMD (International Museum Day)<\/strong>\u00a0is a global day celebration that takes place annually around or on 18 May. ICOM (International Council of Museums) coordinates this event. The event always highlights a theme that keeps changing each year that\u2019s at the heart of the preoccupations of the international museum community. The International Museum Day gives the chance for professionals of museums to meet people and inform them about the challenges museums face.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, museums from all over the world are invited to take part in the International Museum Day to promote museums\u2019 role worldwide, creating unique, free and fun activities around a theme that is discussed within the community of the International Council of Museums specifically for this special day.\u00a0Participation in International Museum Day is growing among museums all over the world. In 2018, more than 40,000 museums participated in the event in some 158 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The poster is published for the International museum day in 2019. The theme is \u201cMuseum as Cultural Hubs: The Future of Tradition\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1193 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/arc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/ANG-banniere-siteweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/arc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/ANG-banniere-siteweb.jpg 4000w, http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/arc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/ANG-banniere-siteweb-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/arc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/ANG-banniere-siteweb-768x384.jpg 768w, http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/arc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/ANG-banniere-siteweb-1024x512.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4000px) 100vw, 4000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Concurrently to International Museum Day, the special lecture on\u00a0<strong>\u201cScientific advancement and archaeological future\u201d<\/strong>, organized by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/arc\/\">Department of History &amp; Archaeology<\/a>\u00a0and the subsidiary Archaeology museum of Faculty of Humanities and Social sciences in collaboration with Zoology museum, Department of Zoology of Faculty of Applied Science will be held on\u00a0<strong>13<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0June 2019\u00a0<\/strong>at the Reading Hall of the Sumangala building from 1 pm to 3 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors are invited to visit Archaeological Museum of the Department of History &amp; Archaeology and Zoological Museum of the Department of Zoology to get experience about museum objects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resource person<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prof. K.M.Alexander,<br \/>\nHead\/ Department of History &amp; Archaeology<br \/>\nThe President, Sri Lanka Council of Archaeologist<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Surathissa Dissanayake<br \/>\nCurator, Zoology Museum<br \/>\nUniversity of Colombo<\/p>\n<div class=\"cleaner\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMD (International Museum Day)\u00a0is a global day celebration that takes place annually around or on 18 May. ICOM (International Council of Museums) coordinates this event. The event always highlights a theme that keeps changing each year that\u2019s at the heart of the preoccupations of the international museum community. The International Museum Day gives the chance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}