World Forum for Motor Museums
A biennial meeting for motor museum professionals, principals, owners and collectors.
Contacts
Micheal Penn – Chairman 
World Forum for Motor Museum
Wim Van Roy – Vice Chairman
Mahymobiles, BE
Andrea Bishop
National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, UK
Stephen Laing
British Motor Industry Heritage Trust, UK
Mariella Mengozzi
Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile, IT
Kelvin Ferris
Australasian Motor Museum Association (Australia and New Zealand)
Mark Vargus
Revs Institute, USA, UK
Latest Proceedings:
2001 Australia Beyond Collecting – Components of Success
2018 World Forum Documents:
Tuesday 4 September 2018:
- Making money – easier said than done? Julie Tew: British Motor Museum (UK)
- Building prospering museums using the AIM Hallmarks’ Helen Wilkinson: Association of Independent Museums (UK)
- Engineer your fund-raising luck by Judy Niner, Development Partners (UK)
- Heritage Certificates – finding the value in your collection – Gillian Bardsley British Motor Museum
- A five year dream realised…. Kelvin Ferris, Jim Walker and John McLean: Motor Museum of WA (Australia)
Wednesday 5 September 2018:
- I didn’t pay to see a patch of bare concrete – Tony Merrygold: Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust (UK)
- Opening doors to automotive history – Mark Vargas: Revs Institute, Naples (USA)
- Real, Replica, or Fake? – Anders Ditlev Clausager MA MDes(RCA) Society of Automotive Historians UK
- Guidelines for the Care of Larger & Working Historic Objects – Tim Bryan ABTEM (UK)
- Restoring the unrestored – Gundula Tutt: Omnia Restoration (Germany) – Additional PDF
- Keeping heritage vehicles on the road – additive manufacturing case studies – Philip Guilfoyle: Vintage Restoration Management (Australia)
- Preserving volunteer knowledge & skills – Rudi Baer: Saurer Museum (Switzerland)
Thursday 6 September 2018
- Human centred design: the power of co-curation – Francis Ranford: Coventry Transport Museum (UK)
- Engaging Audiences: the Mercedes Museum – Armin Groeger: Mercedes Museum (Germany)
- Museums as social development aid for a small town – Scott & Joc O’Donnell: Transport World (New Zealand)
- Incorporating feminism, multiculturalism, & national identity into the 21st century automotive museum – Alex Gates: Canadian Automotive Museum (Canada)
- Millicent’s War – David Cooper: Cooper Technica (USA) – Additional PDF
- Cars & curious creativity – Andrea Bishop: National Motor Museum Beaulieu (UK)
- How the motor museum saw the motorcar? – Pal Negyesi University of Leicester (UK)
Friday 7 September 2018
- The Way Ahead – Peter Mitchell: Patron, Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust (UK)
- Shifting up a gear – meeting visitor expectations in the 21st century – Tamalie Newbery: Brooklands Museum (UK)
- Charter – What Charter? The story of the FIVA Charter of Turin – Keith Gibbins: Federation British Historic Vehicle Clubs (UK)
- Greening the museum – Hayley McCafferty-David BCLM (UK)
- The future is bright, the future is…? – Stephen Laing: British Motor Museum (UK)
- Digital trends – Bob Van Cleemputte Create (Belgium)
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