• Cultural and Creative Sectors and Local Development

    What is the issue? The direct and indirect impacts of culture on local development are largely achieved through cultural participation and access of diverse groups of population to cultural amenities […]

  • The CoMuseum: Virtual International Conference and Workshops

    On December 2-4, the U.S. Embassy in Greece, in partnership with the Benaki Museum and the British Council, will present the 10th International CoMuseum Conference. The event will take place in a digital format this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference is organized in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Athen and the Ambassade de […]

  • Cultural Alliances: The Imperatives and Challenges of Collaboration

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    For the third iteration of Museum 2050’s annual symposium, the platform looks to explore the concept of collaboration, both in its proliferation in recent partnerships amongst museums, particularly in China, and as a centerpiece of creative production. We wish to ask the fundamental question: why collaborate? What is the purpose of these cultural alliances? Whether […]

  • Arts U: National Arts Marketing Project Conference

    Are you ready to immerse yourself in all things arts marketing and what you need to know as our field shifts beneath our feet? Are you ready to dive into conversations to launch your exploration of new ways of thinking or affirm tried and true tactics? If you said yes, then have we got the […]

  • CIDOC Conference 2020

    The CIDOC Conference 2020 will address an important societal theme that cannot be ignored nowadays: digital transformation in cultural heritage institutions. This Conference is looking to collect first-hand experiences, bring […]

  • Museums+Tech 2020

    The 2020 conference asks what role digital can play for museums in a crisis. How can museums and other cultural organisations respond to crisis, both in terms of their collections, […]

  • Making History Together: Public Participation in Museums

    The international online symposium will bring together scholars, museum professionals and heritage practitioners to discuss how participatory history is constructed, developed, and implemented in museums. We invite you to register and attend the one-day symposium “Making History Together: Public Participation in Museums”. It will take place on 15 December 2020 and will bring together participants […]

  • What is a Museum? Part 2: The Function of Collecting

    The defining essential unity in museums are the functions of collecting, preserving, documenting, researching, exhibiting and in other ways, communicating and interpreting evidence of human culture and history for the benefit of everyone. Should our collections shift as our communities do? In a world aimed towards political correctness, how do we address collections as a […]