Titled “Virtual Exhibitions and Other Museums Uses of the Web” the virtual webinar was hosted by Dr Paul Michael Taylor, Research Anthropologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, Director of the Museum’s Asian Cultural History, European and Middle Eastern Cultures and Director of the Asian Cultural History Program and curator of Asian, European and Middle Eastern Ethnology.

The webinar targeted employees of the National Museum, employees of public and private museums, employees of private art galleries, in addition to students of the College of Education (Art Education major) at Sultan Qaboos University and students of Fine Arts at the Scientific College of Design.

Dr Taylor will also present two additional lectures this year addressing a range of topics: “Program Development: Development of Dynamic Programs and Visitor Participation”, and “Activities of Museums or Cultural Centers” Modern: Prosperity in the Twenty-first Century.” In addition to a lecture on “Exhibition Development: A Case Study of Money as Material Culture: Acquisitions and Organization in the American Museum of Money,” by Douglas Mudd of the Colorado Museum of Money in the United States.

The support for this series of lectures comes from the Embassy of the United States in the Sultanate. The lectures focus on a range of museum management topics and highlight the strong partnership between the foremost museum institutions in Oman and the United States. The embassy has provided similar training opportunities by sending specialists from the National Museum and the Documentation Authority Archives, and the Ministry of Heritage and Culture (formerly) to the United States of America for the International Visitor Leadership Program for several weeks.