International Conference of Mining and Underground Museums Wieliczka-Bochnia 2018
Let’s meet and share our experiences!
Date: 19-22 November 2018
Venue: Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines, Poland
Range of topics:
Session I: Presentation of Cracow Saltworks – history and current operation, as well as 2018 jubilees
Session II: Legal, financial and organisational aspects of underground mining museums operation on an international scale.
Session III: Protection, conservation protection, revitalisation and research problems of mining excavations.
Session IV: Organisation of underground tourist routes and modelling the museum space – authenticity or creation?
Session V: Educational role fulfilled by mining museums and their operation in local communities
Session VI: Ethical aspects and good practice serving the purpose of maintaining balance between protection and accessibility, education and income coming from underground tourist routes.
Key dates
01.06.2018 – 30.09.2018 – Call for papers
30.07.2018 – 07.10.2018 – E-mail messaging about acceptance or rejection of conference talks to be delivered
30.07.2018 – 31.10.2018 – Registration of conference speakers
30.07.2018 – 09.11.2018 – Standard registration of passive participants
30.07.2018 – 18.11.2018 – Payment periods for participation in the conference for passive participants
07.10.2018 – 04.11.2018 – Deadline for sending full texts of papers to be published
07.10.2018 – 09.11.2018 – Deadline for sending promotion posters for the conference
01.10.2018 – 09.11.2018 – Deadline for uploading complete Power Point presentations to Dropbox
10.11.2018 – 19.11.2018 – Late registration and payment period for passive participants of the conference