In this decade, museums are not merely a place for displaying information about the history, heritage, historical objects, and conducting education programmes, but the function of museums are transforming to become the strategic communication for institutions takin care of museums. This strategic function of museums is expected to bridge between an interest of the institution in accomplishing its mission to educate the public about the history of the institution, history of the policies and the current policies issued by the institutions, and the interest of the public to gain the knowledge. 
Therefore this Conference is arranged to encourage interactive discussions amongst participants upon the above theme. Participants are expected to deliver presentation on how the transformation of the museum takes place whilst accomplishing its mission to educate the public, how the museum serves its function as a communication tool for an institution, and how the museum responds the challenges encountered for the future development, and what strategy the museum applies in utilising state ­of ­the ­art of technology. 
In preparing the call for papers, participants may select one of several below topics :

• Museum as tools for communicating concepts and policies
• Creating displays which educate the public about numismatic and financial concepts
• Incorporating technology within numismatic museums 

The Institute of Archaeology cordially invites all colleagues to submit proposals for presentations or posters for the conference “Classical Cyprus”,  to be held from  21st to 23rd September 2017. The presentations are limited to 20 mins. Conference languages are English, German, and French.The deadline for submitting proposals and abstracts (max. 300 words, max. two illustrations, pub-lication permit held by the author) is 30th April 2017.  The Conference Committee will eventually decide on the selection and the format of presentation. Young scholars are especially encouraged to submit their papers.
 

Ce séminaire, organisé par l’Ecole française d’Athènes avec le soutien de la MSH Val-de-Loire et l'IRAMAT (UMR 5060), est destiné à des doctorants des universités françaises et étrangères, dont la numismatique n'est pas la spécialité première, mais dont une partie de la recherche est fondée sur ce type de sources, afin de les former aux enjeux, méthodes et techniques d'analyse en numismatique. La formation se déroulera à Athènes et sur le site de Thasos.
Le séminaire comprendra des cours, des visites de musées et de sites, ainsi qu’un atelier pratique sur les monnaies grecques et romaines (étude de matériel archéologique). Cette formation sera l'occasion de concrétiser des liens scientifiques entre doctorants et chercheurs confirmés autour des pratiques du numismate. Formation équivalente à 50h de cours.

The international archeological symposium studies the evolution of the city, as well as its relation with other cities and archaeological sites in Western Cyprus, from the Hellenistic period to Early Medieval times. At the same time, the archaeological missions currently working on the site of Nea Pafos will present their discoveries in regards to the founding of Nea Pafos, its urban development, its art, its architecture and its necropolis.

The Museum of Cycladic Art and the Alpha Bank Numismatic Collection are collaborating for the first time, on the organisation of the Exhibition ‘MONEY. Tangible symbols in ancient Greece’.  

The Exhibition will be held from November 2017 to April 2018 and will present to the general public extraordinary samples of the ancient coinage, mainly from the Alpha Bank Nuimismatic Collection.

The Exhibition theme relates to the diverse references and readings of the symbols depicted on coins, from the late seventh century BC into Roman times. The coin is, first and foremost, man’s basic medium of transaction, the means by which people cover their everyday needs and the State makes payments and honours its monetary obligations. 

Ancient coins, however, are not merely media of transaction; they are of themselves tangible symbols, symbols that are literally handled, that are read, that are comprehended. That is why the representations they carry provide important information –historical and other– which is linked with the place and the authority that issued the coins. 

 In the eight thematic units of the Exhibition, alongside the exquisite specimens of numismatic art a selection of other objects (statues, reliefs, vases, figurines, inscriptions) from museums in Greece and abroad will be displayed, the iconography and the references of which document scientifically the images imprinted on the coin flans.  

The exhibition will be accompanied by a scholarly catalogue in Greek and English, with authoritative introductory essays, entries on all the exhibits and ample photographs. 

The Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO) and Ain Shams University are organizing an international conference on History of Egyptian Coinage. The conference is organized by Tomas Faucher (IRAMAT-CEB, CNRS/Univ. Orleans) & Naglaa Ezzat (University of Ain Shams) March 25, 2018, at the auditorium of the French Institute in Egypt. (Simultaneous translation to Arabic will be available for all English and French communications and all the communications in Arabic will be simultaneously translated into English.)