Final ECEC Conference in Liverpool: 6-7 July 2010

On the first conference day, the Director of the National Museums Liverpool, David Fleming, welcomed us and introduced the Keynote speakers. The first speaker was

Let’s Have a Coffee - Local project from Zagreb

The exhibition Let’s Have a Coffee, Views of Zagreb Entrepreneurs on the Culture of Coffee Consumption, of the Zagreb Ethnographic Museum is a result of the two-year research conducted within the scope of the project Entrepreneurial Cultures in European Cities.
The immediate reason for choosing this subject was that coffeehouses and cafés, as places of

Native and immigrant: the voice of an entrepreneur from Tallinn

Follow the link below to the interview with an entrepreneur from Tallinn, owner of a popular coffehouse chain in the capital city Tallinn with migration background. This interview is a part of the current project research made by the Tallinn City Museum:
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The Estonian capital city is home to approximately 400 000 people [...]

Berlin: Special Exhibition Announcement

Doner, Delivery and Design - Entrepreneurs in Berlin

21.11.2009-28.2.2010 (opening 20.11., 7pm)

« Connected Barcelona, Transnational Citizens. Migratory growth and urban practices »

…this is the title of the current exhibition in the Tinell Hall at the History Museum of Barcelona: http://www.barcelonaconnectada.cat/en/
The categories of migrant and cosmopolitan go hand in hand when a major part of the inhabitants of Barcelona are of a greatly varied condition and position. Thanks to advances in communications and transport, these inhabitants weave [...]

Storytelling: neighbourhoodshops in Amsterdam

Interviews and stories from and with entrepreneurs, collected during the preparation of an actual exhibition by the Amsterdams Historisch Museum
Document (pdf): Storytelling in Amsterdam