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December 7, 2023

📢We invite you to a new #FRHTalk about the keys to connecting with the public and attracting new visitors to museums in #PlacesOfWorship building on the invaluable experience of the @DioceseLugo (Spain 🇪🇸).

More info and registrations📲https://bit.ly/3Rk6cTo

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📢We invite you to a new FRH Talk in which we wi

📢We invite you to a new FRH Talk in which we will explore the key factors to attract and connect with visitors in museums located in places of worship, based on the invaluable experience of the Diocesan and Cathedral Museum of Lugo (Spain 🇪🇸).

The Diocesan and Cathedral Museum of Lugo is a UNESCO World Heritage Site forming part of the St James Way👣✝️. A record 40,000 visitors came to the museum in 2022, demonstrating the public's interest in its collection and the building that houses it, but also an effective and well-planned strategy for connecting religious heritage with 21st-century audiences.

More information and registrations✍️➡️: https://bit.ly/3Rk6cTo

Our face-to-face meeting in Naumburg is over! For

Our face-to-face meeting in Naumburg is over! For two days, our members enjoyed tailor-made cultural visits to Naumburg Cathedral and Pforta Monastery and participated in the discussion on contemporary art in places of worship. Here's a little summary👇.

Our f2f meeting started with a guided visit to Naumburg Cathedral, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2018. The Cathedral is famous for its “Stifterfiguren”, 12 life-sized sculptures of the Cathedral Donors. 🎨We also learned about the recent project "Triegel meets Cranach" which has brought the restored Cranach altarpiece back to its original place in the west choir of the Cathedral.

In Saxony-Anhalt, about 3.5% of the population is Catholic and 10-15% Protestant, which means that the preservation of religious heritage (tangible and intangible) relies on a highly secularised society, as our member and guest speaker Harald Schwillus explained during the afternoon presentations.

💬The presentations also delved into numerous examples of contemporary interventions and modern stained glass windows in German churches, giving our participants food for thought and encouraging the exchange of different approaches to this issue at the European level. Thanks to our guest speakers Dr Holger Kempkens, Konstanze Förster-Wetzel and Prof Dr Barbara Shock-Werner.

🚌The second day of our f2f meeting took us to the Pforta Monastery, founded by the Cistercians in the 1130s. Since the 16th century, the monastery has operated as the Landesschule Pforta, a boarding school for gifted students.

Special thanks to @vereinigte_domstifter and @naumburgerdomofficial for welcoming us and showing us this beautiful and interesting place in the south of Saxony-Anhalt👏.

#NaumburgCathedral #PfortaMonastery #FutureforReligiousHeritage #NaumburgerDom #ReligiousHeritage #placesofworship #EuropeanHeritage #SustainableHeritage

📢 Register for our online face-to-face meeting

📢 Register for our online face-to-face meeting from Bucovina, Romania🇷🇴!

🗣️The session will be led by Carmen Chasovschi, FRH member and tourism expert specialising in community-based tourism development through a participatory approach.

She will introduce us to the particular #ReligiousHeritage landscape of this region, which includes the Painted Monasteries of Bucovina listed as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO⛪️🌲, and the current initiatives to revitalise rural areas through cultural tourism.

🗨️Feel free to join us and share your views on religious heritage and tourism!

🗓️29 November at 13:00 CET (via Zoom)

Registrations ➡ https://bit.ly/47T2s1t

🔗 More information: https://bit.ly/3GcN1pg

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