International Museum Day

MMoFA joins the international community of museums to celebrate International Museum Day with the 2011 theme "Museum and Memory." Museums preserve memory and tell stories. And the objects in their collections are expressions of our natural and cultural heritage and form the memory of the communities we live in. Many of them are fragile, others endangered, and they need special care and conservation.

MMoFA's "Objects Tell Your Story" invites museum visitors to discover and rediscover individual and collective memory. It celebrates the legacies of the visual art masters represented in MMoFA's collection and the growth and impact of MMoFA on the region since its opening in 2003. Memory is a preoccupation for organizations beyond the museum community. So MMoFA has partnered with documentary film experts, the Audiovisual Archives, the Smithsonian Archives, the National Monuments Foundation, the Eatonton Public Library, and the Eatonton Historic Society. the Eatonton History Museum, and the K-12 Putnam School System in a Scrapbook. MMoFA will highlight its African Shona sculpture collection created by artists from a continent whose cultural contribution to the world is often unknown and deserves to be promoted.

The International Council of Museums (ICOM) established International Museum Day in 1977 to encourage public awareness of the role of museums in the development of society.