You, your club, along with your local museum are invited to take part in the seventh 'International  Museums Weekend 2008'. As always, this will take place on the third weekend in June 2008. 

New - Google Earth pushpins for the events museums - download added to the Museums List page.

THE DATE of the event has now been extended from its usual single weekend, to take in two full weekends. This change is to enable those unable to operate on the first weekend, to make use of the second weekend. Everyone is welcome to operate on either or even both of the weekends - entirely your own choice.        

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 I seem to be running this event pretty much by myself at the moment, so if any one feels the inclination to help out, the offer would be gratefully received by me. As you can probably guess most of the skill needed is that of editing the web pages, carefully keeping the Museums List up to date and that of announcing to the many foreign radio societies that the event is taking place.

The intention of the event is to set up amateur radio special event stations at as many of the museums as possible throughout the whole of the world. I would hope for an HF, VHF, and if at all possible, a Ui-View (APRS) packet station to be set up at each museum site, but the scope of your station is entirely up to you. The choice of museum is also left very much up to you, however aim for the largest and/or most unusual you can find.

The museums taking part over the years have included ships, castles, air museums, Napoleonic forts, pumping stations, wireless museums, racing museums and many others. For the purposes of the event, the word 'museum' is loosely interpreted. There really is no shortage of venues in which such an event can be staged, no matter where in the world you might live.

During the first 'International Museums Event 2002' over 80 museums from all over the world took part. The museums varied from tiny local village museums manned by a single lone operator, to some of the worlds most prestigious ones. These were accompanied by a great number of military museum sites, such as HMS Belfast in London, the Battleship New Jersey in the US, RAF museums as well as very many non-military types (see the Museums List).

The event has proven itself to be extremely popular and well supported special event particularly amongst the UK radio amateur population. It also went down very well  at the  museums which were used as the venues for the event, and invitations have again been extended for the coming June.  It has shown itself to be a tremendous  public relations exercise, as well as  all of us having lots of fun over the IMW weekend.

At least part of the intention for this event, is to present modern amateur radio to members of the public and to help us loose some of the stuffy anorak image. What better place to do this than in the very public and well visited areas of the many museums which can be found in most parts of the world?

Those clubs and museums which do decide to take part, should please use the free on-site 'Registration' facility (button below). The 'Registration' is simply to assist us in administration of the event and provide those taking part with an indication of how many and exactly where the museums taking part are located.

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Last update 14th May 2008