Co-operation museums
German Museums Association
The German Museums Association is the organisation representing the interests of all museums in German and their employees. It publishes the magazine "Museumskunde" twice a year. Numerous specialist groups are also organised in the Museumsbund, such as the specialist group for history museums or the specialist group for cultural history and art museums, as well as the "Volunteer Working Group", which is committed to improving training conditions and the exchange of information between volunteers. In addition to dates and news from the museum sector, the site also has a current job market.
Federal Association of Museum Education
Around 700 museum educators are organised nationwide in the Federal Association of Museum Education. It aims to represent the interests of museum education and museum communication in politics, culture and education and to further develop the profession of museum educator. In addition to contact information for the regional associations, the website also offers a comprehensive list of literature and job vacancies.
ICOM - International council of museums
ICOM (The International Council of Museums) is the international organisation of museums and their employees, founded in 1946. It endeavours, for example, to draw up museum standards and publishes a code of ethics for museums.
Co-operation museums
Museums
The University of Oldenburg has been working with museums, collections and exhibition centres at regional, national and international level for many years. The Master's degree programme in Museum and Exhibition in particular maintains contact with many museums in and outside the region, some of which are integrated into the degree programme as permanent cooperation partners. Numerous museum directors from the region are also involved in the degree programme as honorary professors and lecturers.
In many cases, however, these co-operations are based on the personal contacts and individual teaching and research focus of the respective lecturers. On the part of the museums, on the other hand, little is known about the teaching and research focuses at the University of Oldenburg and the opportunities for cooperation.
In order to further expand cooperation and better bring together suitable cooperation partners, an "Interface for the Coordination of Cooperation between the University and Museums" was set up at the Institute of Material Culture in October 2011. This is currently being continued by Dr Beate Bollmann as part of her work as a lecturer on the degree programme. The task is to coordinate the museums that are involved in the Master's degree programme "Museum and Exhibition" as cooperation museums. In addition, the interface has set itself the goal of intensifying co-operation between the university and museums as a whole. In recent years, it has been possible to establish new contacts or deepen existing contacts and bring interested museums together with suitable cooperation partners at the University of Oldenburg.
Co-operation agreements exist with the following museums:
- German Naval Museum Wilhelmshaven
- German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven
- Edith Russ House, Oldenburg
- Focke-Museum - Bremen State Museum of Art and Cultural History
- Horst Janssen Museum, Oldenburg
- State Museum of Nature and Man, Oldenburg
- Elisabethfehn Moor and Fehn Museum
- Cloppenburg Museum Village
- Nordwolle Delmenhorst - Northwest German Museum of Industrial Culture
- Crafts Museum Ovelgönne
- Jever Castle Museum
- Oldenburg City Museum
Other partner and co-operation museums are:
- Oldenburg Computer Museum
- Oldenburg Art Association
- State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg
- German Sielhafen Museum Carolinensiel
- Museum of Local History Leer
- Weser-Ems Culture Portal
- Emden Art Gallery
- Museum Nienburg/ Weser
- East Frisian Landscape
- East Frisian Tea Museum Norden
- Werkbund Archive - Museum of Things