ASEMUS would like to congratulate the following members:

National Museum of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea, and

Traditional Art and Ethnology Centre, Lao Prabang, Laos

for being selected by the Asia […]

Kamarul Baharin bin A. Kasim is presently the Director of Muzium Negara (National Museum), Malaysia. He obtained his first degree in the Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Malaya in 1989. His […]

City Museums:  Collisions | Connections

CAMOC/Museum of Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada, October 24-26, 2012

CAMOC, the International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities of the […]

City Museums:  Collisions | Connections, CAMOC/Museum of Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada, October 24-26, 2012

CAMOC, the International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities of the […]

The Passing On of The Former Director General of Department of Museums Malaysia

Former Director General of the Department of Museums Malaysia, Dato’ Dr Adi Taha, 60, died after a long battle from cancer at […]

Director, National Textile Museum, Malaysia

Janet Tee first joined The National Museum of Malaysia (Muzium Negara) in the late 70′s. She was the Public Relations officer of the museum and in 2005 was […]

 Curator, Vargas Museum, Manila, Philippines

Patrick D. Flores is Professor of Art Studies at the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines and Curator of the Vargas Museum in Manila. He […]

Head of Education, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland

Jenny Siung has worked for the Chester Beatty Library since 2000 taking up her post to develop the first Education Programme.  Working with such a […]

Curator and Museum Counsellor, Slovene Ethnographic Museum

Born in 1955 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Mencin graduated with a BA on ethnology and psychology in 1981 from the Faculty of Arts, University of […]

Director General, National Folk Museum of Korea

Cheon, Jingi received his M.A. in Folkore from Yeungnam University and Ph.D in Korean Classical Literature from Chungang University. He has had his career as […]

In-charge of Libraries and Archives, National Museum of Denmark.

I am in charge of the libraries and archives in the National Museum of Denmark, Ethnographic Collections. I have a MA in museum ethnography […]

The 12th Annual Meeting of the International Committee for University Museums and Collections (UMAC) will be held at the NUS Museum, National University of Singapore (an ASEMUS member museum) from the […]

Ambassador Michel Filhol was appointed ASEF Executive Director at the 26th ASEF Board of Governors meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania in May 2011. As ASEF Executive Director, Ambassador Filhol is also Patron of […]

The 2011 ASEMUS executive meeting was held on the 8 October in the beautiful city of Stockholm at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska museet). At the meeting, the new Chair and Vice Chair of […]

  Founder and Director, World Jewellery Museum, Korea   Lee Kang-won is the founder and director of the World Jewellery Museum of Seoul, Korea.  She achieved a B.A. in Journalism from Ewha Woman’s University and studied English literature at Virginia College. She has devoted 40 years of her life to preserving and promoting traditional…[Read more]

UNESCO AND ICCROM has sent out an appeal for museums to answer to participate in their survey. Their appeal is found here: Museum collections are at serious risk An estimated 60% of the world’s collections in storage are inaccessible and deteriorating rapidly.  UNESCO and ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and…[Read more]