Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 105. (Budapest, 2006)
ANNUAL REPORT - A 2006. ÉV - ISTVÁN NAGY: Annual Meeting of CIPEG at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
ANNUAL MEETING OF CIPEG AT THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BUDAPEST The annual meeting of CIPEG (Comité international pour l'égyptologie) in ICOM, 5-27 September, 2006 was hosted at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, celebrating the 100th anniversary of its first opening. In addition to a number of representatives of European museums, some Egyptologists of American collections also participated at the meeting in Budapest. The Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt was represented by Mohamed Abdelfattah, the personal emissary of its president. Professor Dr. Hesham Mohamed Shafik, the cultural attaché of the A.R.E. at the Hungarian Embassy in Budapest, was also invited to the event. The conference was opened by Dr. László Baán, general director of the Museum of Fine Arts, On behalf of the Ministry of Education and Culture Dr. Annamária Vígh, head of the Department of Public Collections welcomed the participants. After the opening ceremony, Regine Schulz, the chairperson of CIPEG, informed the participants about the decisions made at the Annual Aleeting of ICOM, namely the details of the adoption of a new strategic plan and the installation of a new committee (Committee on International Committees). As the re-elected chairman of the Ethic Committee of ICOM, Mrs. Schulz presented the challenges at hand in regard to the organization's code of ethics, for example the necessity to solve problems in regard to the legality of electronic communication and resources. The topics on the agenda touched on almost every aspect of the tasks faced by contemporary museology, namely: » to exploit new opportunities for museums to work wdth one another; » to develop cooperation between museums, universities and research institutes, and to support interdisciplinary research, as elaborated by C. Graves-Brown (Swansea University) in her presentation, entitled "Egyptology in an interdisciplinary world —a view from Egypt Centre"; » the necessity to create modern and "visitor-friendly" museums and exhibitions; » the necessity for the collections to be catalogued by creating easily adaptable computer programs; » the importance of curators' continuing professional education; » the unchanging topicality of publishing monographs in regard to how the collections were formed and their general history.
