This year’s CoMuseum International Conference will focus on (Re)positioning the Museum of Tomorrow, featuring keynote presentations, fireside chats, panel discussions and workshops around 4 focus areas so as to enable cultural exchange for international connections and lead to intercultural dialogue and mutuality between museums in the UK, US and EU. The focus areas are:
- Sustainability: Business Strategy, Digital Everything, Access to New Funding
- The Future of Content: Collections, Curating, Storytelling and Interpretation
- The Social Impact of Museums: Communities, Human Rights, Social Identity, Activism
- The Museum and Climate Change
You can also see the full agenda of the first day of the conference here. Contributors include:
- Simon O’Connor, Director, Museum of Literature Ireland
- Richard Sandell , Professor of Museum Studies, Co-director of the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, University of Leicester, UK
- Dr. Lida Tsene, Founder Athens Comic Library, Greece
- Adam Rozan, Director of Programs and Audience Development, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, USA
- Zandra Yeaman , Curator of Discomfort, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, UK
- Patricia Rahemipour, Director, Institute for Museum Research Berlin, Germany
The CoMuseum will take place virtually and is FREE. Registration is required, and registration closes on 29 November. So register here to avoid disapointment.