If you are visiting us from within Mexico, or from the rest of the world, we have prepared a place especially for you. We leave at your disposal this list with various hotels and airlines available that you can use to arrive to our city.

 

 

If you have any doubt concerning these event, check the frequently asked questions or contact us at info@musa.org.mx

 

 

 

We invite you to come to Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico, to attend INTERCOM 2009. The Arocena Museum is proud to have been chosen as the venue for the INTERCOM 2009 meeting, and we look forward to welcoming colleagues, museum professionals and friends from our country, as well as from the rest of the world.

 

The subject of INTERCOM 2009 is “Museums working in partnership”. Today, museums are institutions which are closely connected to their communities locally, and also with many other agencies and organizations, regional, national and international.

 

In Torreón we have many examples of how museums work in collaboration. Torreón is a city that, from its very beginnings at the end of the 19th century, was built gradually by the efforts of people who came from all over the world. These immigrants brought with them a pioneering and progressive spirit, which today’s inhabitants have inherited.

 

Our program promises a magnificent conference about experiences of collaboration, and speakers who will share their knowledge, attempting to answer often asked questions in museums: how do we build relations between museums and our communities? What connections are made with local and national governments, including relations with Education, Tourism, Economic Development, Parks and other non-governmental organizations? What relations are established with other museums? How do we attract a public other than the one that normally visits museums? What role does the web play in creating virtual communications?

 

As well as a stimulating academic program, we offer our guests the opportunity to visit this region in the north of Mexico, located in the Desert of Chihuahua, which offers many tourist attractions such as the Cristo de las Noas (Christ on Noas Hill), the world famous springs: “Cuatrociénegas”, the Museum of the Desert, located in Saltillo, capital city of the state of Coahuila, the Paleontological Zone “Rincón Colorado”, Parras de la Fuente, a “magic town” with its winery Casa Madero, where the first vine brought by Spaniards to New Spain grew and flourished, or to travel to the metropolis of Mexico City, one of the larger and more fascinating cities in all the planet.

 

Please review the INTERCOM website for more details over the next few months.

On behalf of the Arocena Museum and other organizers of INTERCOM 2009, we hope to have the pleasure of welcoming you to Torreón, México.

We are sure that you will receive a positive learning experience, as well as enjoy what the region offers. We, for now, are preparing with loving care what we hope will be an unforgettable event of INTERCOM 2009.


Rosario Ramos, Director, Museo Arocena, Torreón, Coahuila, México.

 

Welcome to Torreón!

I would like to add my invitation to the INTERCOM 2009 meeting, to be held in the fascinating city of Torreon, Mexico. INTERCOM is very grateful to Rosario Ramos and her colleagues for agreeing to host this important meeting.

 

INTERCOM’s meetings are now famous for the quality of their content and their organization, and I am certain the Torreon meeting will be every bit as good as the recent ones we have held in Taipei and Rotorua.

Many of the Rotorua delegates - more than 150 from 16 different countries – said that the meeting there in November 2008 was the best international meeting they had ever attended. Have a look at the INTERCOM website to see the quality of the presentations, and then make your decision to travel to Mexico on November 10-13, 2009, when you can be sure of meeting many imaginative and committed colleagues from around the world.

 

Dr David Fleming OBE, President INTERCOM and Director, National Museums Liverpool, UK.