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【Review】Today Art Museum built the largest Private Art Museum Volunteer Practice and Employment Base in China

2014-05-06

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On March 20th, 2014, Today Art Museum signed agreement of Volunteer Practice and Employment Base with Central Academy of Fine Arts, and held a ceremony on “CAFA Practice and Employment Base Signing and Awarding Fair”. This is the very first time that CAFA cooperate with private art museum to build a practice base and Today Art Museum is the only private art museum CAFA collaborate with. Since May 2011, the start of Private Art Museum Volunteer Practice and Employment Base Project, Today Art Museum has established cooperation with 11 universities of internship (volunteer) bases by March 20th, 2014. By now, the largest private art museum volunteer cluster has formed in China and nearly thousand of interns (volunteers) were trained and worked in Today Art Museum.

Volunteers are the largest out of museum service force for art museums, especially private art museums. In addition, art museums are the most important places of social practice for art volunteers. A significant difference between nonprofit and profit art museums is the function of education, which could be completed by two-way interaction services between volunteers and museums----Art museums provide art management training for those volunteers, meanwhile, volunteers could practice their knowledge in base as well as introduce art to public. Thus, in certain level, the size of the volunteer team of an art museum presents the strength of its educational function.

Today Art Museum has become the largest volunteer practice and employment base as well as the largest cluster of art volunteers among all the private art museums in China.

PS: The list of universities signed agreement of Volunteer Practice and Employment Base with Today Art Museum

Activity Time	May 27,2011
Institution	Department of Architecture and Art, Beijing Jiaotong University
Participants	Dr. Gao Peng, Director of Today Art Museum signed cooperate agreement with Chen Jinsong, secretary of Youth League Committee of Department of Architecture and Art, Beijing Jiaotong University.

Activity Time

June 9, 2011

Activity Content

volunteer service during Wu Cai Foundation opening ceremony

Activity Time	June 17, 2011
Institution	Beijing Institute of Clothing
Participants	Dr. Gao Peng, Director of Today Art Museum signed cooperate agreement with Li Feiyue, secretary of Youth League Committee of Department of Beijing Institute of Clothing.

Activity Time

July 20, 2011

Activity Content
Today Art Museum established cooperation of international interns and volunteers project with AIESEC to attract the support and participation of international volunteers.

Activity Time	September 22, 2011
Institution	Youth Volunteers Association, Communication University of China
Participants	Dr. Gao Peng, Director of Today Art Museum signed cooperate agreement with Li Wei, deputy secretary of Youth League Committee of Communication University of China.

Activity Time	October 13, 2011
Institution	Youth Volunteers Association, Foreign Economic and Trade University
Activity Content	Today Art Museum signed cooperate agreement of Volunteer Practice and Employment Base with Foreign Economic and Trade University

ActivityTime	November 16, 2011
Institution	Management Science and Engineering, Central University of Finance and Economics
Participants	Dr. Gao Peng, Director of Today Art Museum signed cooperate agreement with He Xiaohai, secretary of Party Committee of Management Science and Engineering, Central University of Finance and Economics.

Activity Time	March 9, 2012
Institution	Beijing University of Chemical Technolog
Participants	Dr. Gao Peng, Director of Today Art Museum signed cooperate agreement with Cheng Xu, secretary of Youth League Committee of Beijing University of Chemical Technology.

Activity Time	March 19, 2012
Institution	Beijing Normal University School of Art and Media
Participants	Dr. Gao Peng, Director of Today Art Museum signed cooperate agreement with Zhen Wei, deputy director of Beijing Normal University School of Art and Media.

Activity Time	November 27, 2013
Institution	Beijing Forestry University College of Art and Design
Participants	Dr. Gao Peng, Director of Today Art Museum signed cooperate agreement with Xue Fenglian, deputy secretary of Party Committee of Beijing Forestry University College of Art and Design.

Activity Time	March 14, 2014
Institution	International College of China Agricultural University
Participants	Dr. Gao Peng, Director of Today Art Museum signed cooperate agreement with Zhang Puguang, secretary of Party Committee of International College of China Agricultural University.

Activity Time	March 20, 2014
Institution	Central Academy of Fine Arts
Participants	Dr. Gao Peng, Director of Today Art Museum signed cooperate agreement with Gao Hongyu, secretary of Party Committee of CAFA.

Activity Time	June 9, 2011
Activity Content	volunteer service during Wu Cai Foundation opening ceremony

Activity Time	July 20, 2011
Activity Content	Today Art Museum established cooperation of international interns and volunteers project with AIESEC to attract the support and participation of international volunteers.