• Christie’s Education Conference 2020: The Chinese Art Market

    Christie’s Education will be holding its first global virtual conference on 26-27 November 2020. The conference will explore the global impact of the Chinese art ecosystem from both historical and current perspectives. […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]

  • Digital Engagement Series #1: Digital Collaboration: Context and Needs

    Digital Engagement Series If it wasn’t evident prior, the pandemic has emphasized the nonprofit arts sector’s need to dismantle the silos prohibiting collaboration in digital engagement. In recognition of this, the Association of African American Museums, American Alliance of Museums, Association of Art Museum Curators, Association of Art Museum Directors, Association of Academic Museums and […]

  • 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 […]