Inspired by the passion and support of our members and the museum community, we were able to take a major step forward for our network. You were patient, and we thank you for that. We proudly present your interactive, dynamic and completely redesigned Web sites chin.gc.ca and virtualmuseum.ca, as well as your new virtual space for professional development, pro.rcip-chin.gc.ca.

The New Year brings new opportunities for all of us within the network to collaborate. These tools are yours and I invite you to make full use of them. They are your resources for excellence.

Happy New Year 2010!

Gabrielle Blais
Director General, CHIN

The CHIN Digital Heritage Symposium will examine the opportunities and challenges confronting heritage institutions in today’s global digital environment. The Symposium will be held at Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia on February 4 and 5, 2010.National Gallery of Canada Foundation,... More »

The University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA), an example of collaboration with First Nations when it comes to heritage enhancement, has been revealed following a spectacular makeover. This renewal project, worth $55 million, ... More »

CHIN recently published articles in museology-related magazines. In Muse, the Canadian Museums Association’s publication, the topic was CHIN’s online presence as well as its Web sites’ redesign. As for the articles that were published in Documentation et bibliothèques (in French only), ... More »

The Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage (DOCAM) Research Alliance has reached the final stage of its project. The results will be published on the DOCAM Web site as hands-on tools for cataloguing and preserving works of art. The site will also feature an interactive section where participants can discuss the topic online. ... More »

Three of the six students who will soon graduate from the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)’s Cybermuseology program (in April 2010) completed a student shadow internship at CHIN. This program is geared to students with... More »

CHIN recently organized a series of three free workshops for museum professionals in the National Capital Region. Understanding Search Engine Optimization and Marketing was held in the CHIN training room, and Writing Effectively for the Web was given at the Canadian Museum of Nature. ... More »

In cooperation with Parks Canada, we can now offer to both the international and Canadian museum community an online and free access to Parks Canada’s Descriptive and Visual Dictionary of Objects (DVD). This product is ... More »

Carleton University students now have free and unlimited access to the collections and temporary exhibits at the National Gallery of Canada.

This project was made possible thanks to an agreement between Carleton University and the National Gallery of Canada Foundation,... More »

The Musée d’art de Joliette has found an original and refreshing way to combine contemporary art and teaching on its educational Web site: the Itinéraire en art contemporain, won the 2008 Société des musées québécois Multimedia Award. More »

Last fall, we met with our members in the field. We attended the conventions of the Alberta, Ontario and British Columbia museum associations, as well as of the Société des musées québécois. More »