The 2025 ICOM UK conference will be held in Liverpool on the 1st and 2nd May 2025 on the theme "Regenerative Museums for Sustainable Futures".
The Connected Audience Conference 2025 will take place 21-23 May 2025 discussing the topic of Culture & Young People – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” Factors, Challenges and Opportunities of Cultural Participation for Youth
The next AIM National Conference will be held in Portsmouth between 18-19 June 2025.
The 18th International Conference on the Inclusive Museum will be a hybrid conference held on the theme "Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation" through the lens of visitors, collections, and representations.
The Museum Association Conference 2025 will take place 7-9 October 2025 Following the success of Conference 2024, we look forward to welcoming you to Conference 2025 at Sain Ffagan Amgueddfa Werin Cymru – St Fagans National Museum of History in Cardiff.
The annual Museums Association conference will be held at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds from 12-14 November 2024 on "The Joy of Museums".
MuseumNext's "Museum Social Impact Summit" will take place online between 22-23 May 2024 (BST).
The next edition of the AHI Conference will be held between 11 and 13 October 2023 in Lincoln, UK
The 2023 ICOM UK Conference will take place between 17-18 April 2023 and will address the legacies of colonialism nationally and internationally.
Organised by the Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi, the 5th edition of Culture Summit Abu Dhabi returns to Manarat Al Saadiyat from 23 - 25 October 2022.
Hosted by The National Archives, RLUK and Jisc, DCDC22 (Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities) will be held virtually from 11-15 July 2022 and will focus on the theme of "Inclusive Innovation: digital creativity and opportunities".
The 38th Annual Small Museum Association (SMA) Conference will be held between 20-22 February 2022 on "Seizing the Moment: Opportunities for radical change".
As a joint initiative with ENCATC, the fifth edition of the Arts and Cultural Management Conference (ACMC) will be held on 3-5 February 2022 on 'A Space for more voices and new ways'.
Organised by the Qatar Foundation, the WISE 2021 Summit will take place in Doha, Qatar around the theme "Generation Unmute: Reclaiming our Future Through Education".
Organised by the ICOM International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums Of Cities (CAMOC) and Barcelona History Museum (MUHBA) online and in person from 1-3 December 2021, the CAMOC Annual Conference in Barcelona will be called "Connecting cities, connecting citizens. Towards a shared sustainability".
Communicating the Arts Lausanne will gather 250 communication and engagement experts working in museums and heritage, the visual and performing arts on the theme "The Art of Placemaking".
The Federation of International Human Rights Museums (FIHRM) will host its annual conference online with the National Museums Liverpool on 16 September 2021 on "Defending the right to culture".
Hosted by the Museum of Lisbon, the fifteenth international conference on the Inclusive Museum will be held on the theme "What Museums Post Pandemic?" from 8-10 September 2021.
The annual conference held by the Association of African American Museums (AAAM) will be held virtually between 4th - 6th August 2021.
The Museums and Galleries History Group (MGHG) biennial conference will be held in London on "Museum Networks and Museum History" on the 16th and 17th July 2020. This conference seeks to take critical stock of the role of networks in understanding the history of museums and collections.
Part of Salzburg Global’s Designs on the Future initiative, "How Will Diversity Make A Difference?" will take place on 24 June 2021 from 17:30 - 19:00 CET.
Organised by Brunel University London, the Museum of London, and UCL Urban Laboratory, "Museums, Cities, Cultural Power" is a free two-day online symposium that examines the role of museums in the contemporary city and analyses the dynamics of selected museum development projects in London, the UK and other cities around the world such as Cape Town, Santiago de Chile, Barcelona, Brussels, Rio de Janeiro and Rotterdam.
Culture& in collaboration with the Museums Association will host a joint UK and US symposium on 2 June 2021 (from 18:00 BST) on how our museums are responding to racism and what needs to happen next.
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.
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.
The 9th World Cities Culture Summit will take place in Milan in 2021 and will bring together leading policy makers, researchers, managers, and practitioners from the arts and culture sector from around the world.
The European Sociological Association (ESA) Research Network Sociology of the Arts will hold its 11th midterm conference virtually (streamed from Helsinki) on "The social effects of art: activism, advocacy and beyond".
Part of Salzburg Global Seminar's "Designs on the Future" initiative, this special webinar on "Who Owns the Past?" will take place on 25 February 2021 at 17:00 - 18:30 (Central European Time).
Co-presented by South Arts and the National Consortium for Creative Placemaking (NCCP), the Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit: South + Appalachia is an annual gathering that explores how arts and cultural programming can be forces for connection and community resilience throughout the southeastern United States.
The Museums Computer Group (MCG)'s Museums+Tech 2020 will be held virtually on 9-10 December 2020 and will ask what role digital can play for museums in a crisis.
Reframing Museums will mark the third anniversary of Louvre Abu Dhabi as well as the tenth anniversary for New York University Abu Dhabi and its seminal symposium Art Museums Here and Now.
Running through the week beginning 2nd November, the annual UK Museums Association conference will be held digitally in 2020 on the theme “Power to the people - democratising our museums”.
Museum Ideas 2020 will explore new models of collaborative and socially engaged participatory practice, progressive public engagement, social impact and much more, sharing pioneering ideas that will help shape and support change in museums around the world.
NEMO and the German Museums Association will be co-organising the first of three conferences, "Museums and Social Responsibility: Values Revisited", which will take place online.
The 13th international conference on the Inclusive Museum will be held online, with the theme "Museums and Historical Urban Landscapes".
