In partnership with the Eccles Centre for American Studies at The British Library, "The Future of Collections and Curation in the Context of COVID" will take place on 31 May 2021, 15:00-15:50 (British Summer Time) as part of the Hay Festival online.
Futurecity will host a Happy Hour on 26 May 2021 (17.00-18.00 BST) in conversation with people from Young Creators UK to share their visions on what a 'future city' looks like.
As part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)'s project on “Culture, tourism and local development: New strategies for Italian heritage cities in the post-pandemic scenario”, three webinars will be held in 2021. The first webinar will be held on 26 May 2021 from 12.30-15.00 (CEST) on "Cultural heritage and social cohesion: how to make the local community more cohesive and inclusive".
As part of UCL Anthropocene's 'Cultural Ecology: Galvanising Climate Action Across the Arts' research stream, Professor Peg Rawes will examine in a seminar on 24 May 2021 (13:00 - 14:00 BST) human and nonhuman life as 'matters of concern' for contemporary architectural thinking in the year when the UK hosts the UN COP26 in Glasgow.
2021 American Alliance of Museums' Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo (#AAM2021) will be a hybrid event with a robust virtual program around the theme "Resilient, Together" and an optional in-person add-on: the virtual meeting will take place on May 24 and June 7-9, while the in-person add-on is scheduled to take place May 9-12 in Chicago, IL.
Broadcast online from New York, the President of the United Nations General Assembly will convene on 21 May 2021 a one-day high-level event on Culture and Sustainable Development in partnership with UNESCO, in accordance with the General Assembly Resolution 74/230.
Museum Connections assists museums and cultural sites in their economic development.
The 33rd International Association for Libraries and Museums for the Performing Arts (SIBMAS) Conference will focus on "Performing the Future: Institutions and politics of memory" in 2021.
The second webinar of ICMEMO’s prelude to the live conference in Yerevan in 2025 will take place on 14 May 2021 at 2pm CET and will examine “The Future of Memorial Museums in Promoting Human Rights”.
The Canadian Museums Association's annual conference will be held virtually this year. The theme for CMA2 2021 is "Moving forward".
Organised by the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) and AAMC Foundation, the annual 2021 Art Curators Conference will be held entirely on a virtual platform, with no in-person components planned, from 29-30 April and 3-4 May 2021.
