NEXT WFFM COUNCIL AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING
Lisbon, Portugal
20-23, May 2010
Hosted by the Portuguese Federation of Friends of Museums (FAMP)

The annual meetings, open only to WFFM members, are held in different countries each year: the host WFFM member usually organises, at the same time, seminars of interest to Friends as well as other cultural and social events.
The International Congresses provide an excellent forum for Friends of museums to meet and exchange information and ideas with experts such as museum curators, men and women of letters and culture, authors, architects, archaeologists, historians...

For a full schedule click here
Registration click here


The AGM & Annual Conference of the AFFM will be held in Canberra at the National Museum on Monday 26 October 2009.

This year's AFFM annual conference and forum to be held in Canberra on 25^th and 26th October 2009 with the AGM scheduled for 11 am on Monday 26th.

The program offers a range of interesting items for Friends and Member groups. I urge you to let your members know that they are welcome to attend, to learn more about our organisation and to see first hand the exciting cultural projects that are happening in Canberra.

There is no registration fee for the meeting, forum and tours with the only costs being for those who are attending a dinner on Sunday evening at the Portrait Gallery for which pre-payment is required.

We are very pleased to have been given permission to have morning tea and a tour of Government House and the gardens on Monday 26 October at 9.30 am. Please note that RSVP’s are required for this no later than 16 October 2009.

The AGM notification, registration form and program schedule can be found below:

AGM notification click here
For a full schedule click here
2009 Registration form click here
Accomodation options click here

Promoting Museums
Friends across Africa-Asia-Pacific Conference
held 7 September - 10 September 2006, Sydney Australia

Read transcripts of talks and lectures given at this successful conference can be found below:

Among many highlights of the conference, Edmund Capon’s speech was unforgettable. Urbane and witty, the well-chosen words of the director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales charted the changes in curators’ attitudes to Friends and the public. Here is text of his warmly encouraging address. (PDF 57 KB)

A major conference theme was exploring the ‘big impact of small museums’, which included the exchange of ideas and strategies for organisations working with limited budgets. Maisy Stapleton, CEO, Museums and Galleries NSW, explored the idea of small museums as advocates and innovators and shared some case histories, discussing introducing the concept of the curatorium and showing how small museums use flexible management to create new paradigms of museum and gallery development. (PDF 47 KB)

Julia Oh, former WFFM Secretary General and past president of the Friends of the Museums Singapore, reported to the conference on actions recently taken by the World Federation of Friends of Museums on this important issue. She explains how WFFM became involved and what future steps are proposed. (PDF 118 KB)