MAY conference

The MAI conference , MAI for museums and the internet , has been a two-day conference that has been held annually since 2001 . Thematically, she deals with the subject areas of museum studies that have to do with new media , in particular the Internet and mobile phone use . The conference organized by the Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR) always takes place in May, as the name implies.

The MAI conference is aimed primarily at employees from museums, exhibition houses and cultural administrations, but also from archives and libraries. The contributions are primarily devoted to current aspects of Internet use and mobile devices in the cultural field. The spectrum ranges from presentation, advertising, marketing and communication options to communication options via virtual exhibitions, online fundraising, publishing on demand, customer relationship and content management to questions of accessibility. Most of the conferences have a thematic focus. In addition to lectures, workshops are also part of the conference. The organization and coordination is carried out by the LVR regional cultural work department as well as the LVR archive advice and training center . Other institutions, generally from the changing venue, are involved in the organization, which changes every year. The conference leader is Thilo Martini.

There is a newsletter for the conference called MAI-Ling .

year	place	Venue	thematic focus
2001	Hagen	Historical Center Hagen
2002	Dusseldorf	LVR center for media and education	Museum-School-Internet
2003	Dresden	German Hygiene Museum	Accessible internet access for people with disabilities
2004	Bonn	Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
2005	Frankfurt am Main	Senckenberg Research Institute and Nature Museum
2006	Berlin	Berlinische Galerie - State Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture
2007	Karlsruhe	Center for Art and Media
2008	Hanover	Sprengel Museum Hannover
2009	Xanten	LVR-RömerMuseum in the Archaeological Park	Archeology Online
2010	Nuremberg	Germanic National Museum	Social networks, social media, social tagging
2011	Bremerhaven	German Maritime Museum
2012	Leipzig	City History Museum Leipzig in the old stock exchange
2013	Bonn	Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany	Country focus on the Netherlands
2014	Völklingen	World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte - European Center for Art and Industrial Culture	Industrial culture; Gamification
2015	Dortmund	DASA - Working World Exhibition	InDoor and OutDoor apps
2016	Hamburg	International Maritime Museum Hamburg	Online videos; Country focus on Scandinavia
2017	Bonn	Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig	Virtual reality
2018	Potsdam	Barberini Museum	Podcasting
2019	Dusseldorf	NRW forum
2020 1	Munich	Ernst von Siemens Auditorium at the Pinakothek der Moderne ; Co-organizers: Bavarian State Painting Collections and State Office for the non-state museums in Bavaria	Digital sustainability

¹ canceled due to the global COVID-19 pandemic

literature

• Christine Schmid-Egger: Museums and Internet. New developments and trends. Report on the MAI conference (museums and the internet) in Karlsruhe 10/11 May 2007. In: Museum heute (2007), No. 32, pp. 77–80.
• Christine Schmid-Egger: World cultural heritage and World Wide Web - a successful combination. The 14th MAY conference “museums and the internet”. Völklinger Hütte, May 22/23, 2014. In: Museum heute (2014), No. 46, pp. 64–67.

Web links

• Homepage
• Brief description by Kristine Honig

Individual evidence

1. ^ MAY Conference 2012: Conference on “Museum And The Internet” in Leipzig. Retrieved March 28, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Museums & Internet: MAY Conference 2013 | Social media in tourism. May 24, 2013, accessed on March 28, 2020 (German). 
3. ↑ MAY Conference 2015 - Our digital strategy - Marta blog. Retrieved on March 28, 2020 (German). 
4. ↑ museum4punkt0 at the MAI conference 2018. June 16, 2018, accessed on March 28, 2020 (German). 
5. ↑ Anke von Heyl: A lot of motivation for the future. The May Conference 2019. In: Anke von Heyl. May 21, 2019, accessed on March 28, 2020 (German). 
6. ↑ Conference location 2020 canceled - May conference. Retrieved March 28, 2020 .