Rania Mohamed

Participation in such conferences which include other participants from all over the world helped me to recognize other ideas and interests from other colleagues; this is kind of communication, contacting, receiving and giving information like exchange programs. This opportunity motivated me to achieve my research goals that will support the Egyptian Museum’s profile. Through what I gained from the conference’s presentations and topics, I would be able to accomplish many tasks such as improving the Egyptian Museum exhibition and sharing the knowledge I gained with my colleagues at the Egyptian Museum. This type of networking is very important for integration of different ideas and perspectives pertaining to diverse global issues.

Overall comments on the presentations:

The theme of the conference is a focused and considerable title that has many different perspectives. It was worth to be mentioned in the welcome speech that 59 countries have participated in the conference sharing their different cultures experiences. The presentations of the day were very interesting and useful, also it was comprehensive, very effective and full of useful expressions that catches me and gave me many ideas for developing the display in my museum. The Panel Discussion with all speakers was very useful for questions and better than asking at the end of every presentation, it was combining different perspectives and different directions of thinking.

Kind of experiences gained:

- Sharing experiences with my colleagues from different museums in the world that helped me to explore the nature of every case study discussed.

- Visiting so many museums that benefited me in investigating their modes of display and the way of exhibiting their collections according to their visions.

- Getting in depth look into the western culture with all its overall aspects.

- Enhancing my ability in presentation with different approaches.

- Discussing different case studies that reflect different museums natures and cultures enable me to explore many ideas that could be applied at the Egyptian Museum such as new techniques and marketing aspects.

Final evaluation:

- Very informative meeting with different learning prospective.

- How to apply experiences gained in my field of work.

- Many ideas could be applied at the Egyptian museum.