Cultural Heritage & Museums Archives

Events

Contribute to workshops on digital transitions in the cultural heritage sector

On 20 and 21 April 2021 the project inDICEs is organising two consultation workshops on digital transitions in the cultural heritage sector. Cultural heritage professionals, researchers and the inDICEs community will discuss needs and concerns in relation to digitization, online access, the use and the potential re-use of collections, data needed for developing digital strategies and contents, future research competencies and change management.

Organisations and initiatives

National Gallery of London reimagines immersive, socially distanced show as smartphone exhibition

In a first for the National Gallery, the institution has launched a mobile edition of an exhibition in order to maximise engagement during the last weeks of government enforced closure.

Stories / Good practices

Museums Used to Pay Huge Fees for Personal Couriers to Travel With Major Loans – New Technology Could Mean They Don’t Have to

The acceptance of virtual couriers is rapidly transforming the way artworks travel around the world.

Tools & Resources

NEMO Webinar | The Search For Meaning

On 25 February 2021, Ece Özdil, founder of Jüniör facilitated a NEMO webinar that guided the participants in the search for meaning during the pandemic and a time of general questioning of the role and relevance of museums. By presenting museum trends and related design methods, she helps us reflect on a meaningful future for museums.

Tools & Resources

DIGITRAINING | Digital & Audiovisual Capacity Building for Accessible Heritage

Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, DigiTraining provides small and midsized museums and heritage institutions with digital skills and the managerial tools to benefit from them.

EU response

Coronavirus: a common path to Europe’s safe re-opening

Ahead of the meeting of European leaders on 25 March, the Commission is calling on Member States to prepare for a coordinated approach to a gradual lifting of COVID-19 restrictions when the epidemiological situation will allow.

Events

Museums Association | Digital Futures: Embracing New Strategies

The Covid pandemic has changed our understanding of digital engagement and forced museums to think more creatively about how to reach and connect with different audiences. Hear from a wide range of expert speakers and discover how they have experimented with digital engagement during the pandemic.

Research / Surveys

Museum digital initiatives during the Coronavirus Pandemic

This map aims to show the digital initiatives undertaken by museums during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is part of a broader research project on the impact of COVID-19 on museum digital strategies being developed by Dr Chiara Zuanni at the University of Graz.

Organisations and initiatives

Partnering in a Pandemic: Prairie State Museums Project and Local Journalism

In partnership with local media journalism across Illinois, this project elevates the stories of “Prairie State” museums and their inherent community and economic value as they face the COVID-19 crisis. This project is produced by Resilient Heritage and funded by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Cooperation opportunities

Museums Without Walls Virtual Residency Programme

Museums Without Walls is seeking proposals for its virtual reality residency program. Amidst the global pandemic, the project invites us to examine how art institutions operate, both within and without their physical buildings, as systems for representation and discourse.

Advocacy Initiatives

NEMO publishes detailed overview of museum reopenings in Europe

NEMO has gathered information about museum reopenings and closures from 31 European countries. The overview lists details about reopenings, political and sector communication as well as hygiene measures. The overview is accompanied by a NEMO statement calling for museums to reopen and get support to stay open.

Events

Registration open for NEMO Webinar on future of museums

NEMO invites you to a free webinar where Ece Özdil, Jüniör, will guide you in the search for meaning during the pandemic and a time when the role and relevance of museums are questioned. By presenting museum trends and related design methods, she will help the participants reflect on a meaningful future for museums.

Events

Guardians of Sleep: An oral testimony project by the Museum of Dreams & the Museum of London

The Museum of Dreams is partnering with the Museum of London (UK) to launch a new project to collect oral testimony from Londoners about their dream-life during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tools & Resources

Roundtable with Dave Patten, The Science Museum

From social distancing to flexible interfaces, chemical screen cleaning to robot tours. In a recent virtual meet-up, Dave Patten took Jim Richardson and the MuseumNext community through some of the challenges that have presented themselves at London’s Science Museum over the last 12 months.

Events

MuseumNext: DIGITAL SUMMIT | 22 – 26 February 2021

In a year when digital has played a vital role in museums, MuseumNext speakers will offer pragmatic, real world insight into how they overcame the challenges of pivoting to digital.

Organisations and initiatives

Art Fund_

For over 110 years Art Fund has supported museums and galleries, and helped them to buy and display great works of art for everyone to enjoy.

Events

Museums Immersive Network: Futureproofing Museums For A Post-Covid World.

Join Cornwall Museums Partnership for the second Museums Immersive Network Webinar – an international network for museums and immersive technology.

Stories / Good practices

Museums Worldwide Begin to Reopen as Vaccination Centers

A number of shuttered arts institutions around the world have found a second calling as Covid-19 vaccination centers, The Art Newspaper reports.

Research / Surveys

Danish museums welcomed 3 million less visitors in 2020

A survey by the Danish Museums Association indicates that visitor numbers in 2020 dropped by a third compared to 2019.

EU response

MEPs call for a durable cultural heritage policy to constrain effects of pandemic

The Members of Parliament voted in favour of adopting a resolution on achieving an effective policy legacy for the European Year of Cultural Heritage.

Events

ASEF Webinar series: Culture in the Time of Covid

The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and the Embassy of Switzerland in Singapore jointly presents ‘Culture in the Time of Covid’, a 2-part webinar series.

Events

Hallmarks at Home – Business planning: Adapting as a result of COVID-19

With COVID-19 providing an uncertain future for many museums what does this mean for business planning and future sustainability? This AIM (Association of Independent Museums) session, led by consultant Heather Lomas, will enable you to consider your future business/forward planning.

Events

Our World Heritage: “One World Seminar”

A global seminar throughout May 2021 about the conservation of world heritage sites with presentations of case studies on how they are affected by disasters and pandemics.

Stories / Good practices

The New York Times: Entrepreneurs Bet Big on Immersive Art Despite Covid-19

For-profit experiential art centers are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in a business where audiences have evaporated because of the pandemic.

Tools & Resources

The Art of Reopening: A Guide to Current Practices Among Arts Organizations During COVID-19

National Endowment for the Arts research staff, surveyed national service organizations in the arts and interviewed arts organizations and consultants about reopening practices of organizations that have resumed in-person programming in 2020, during the pandemic.

Events

Online Exhibition | We=Link: Sideways

We=Link: Sideways is the second edition of the We=Link program, a platform for presenting online art. It was initially conceived by Chronus Art Center in Shanghai in late February of 2020, as a response to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Research / Surveys

NEMO follow-up report on the continued impact of Covid-19 on the museum sector

In a new report NEMO analyses how museums have been affected by the pandemic. The findings and recommendations follow up on the main themes that emerged in the first report, namely consequences of losses, digital offers and organizations’ readiness to adapt.

Sector: Cultural Heritage & Museums

Contribute to workshops on digital transitions in the cultural heritage sector

National Gallery of London reimagines immersive, socially distanced show as smartphone exhibition

Museums Used to Pay Huge Fees for Personal Couriers to Travel With Major Loans – New Technology Could Mean They Don’t Have to

NEMO Webinar | The Search For Meaning

DIGITRAINING | Digital & Audiovisual Capacity Building for Accessible Heritage

Coronavirus: a common path to Europe’s safe re-opening

Museums Association | Digital Futures: Embracing New Strategies

Museum digital initiatives during the Coronavirus Pandemic

Partnering in a Pandemic: Prairie State Museums Project and Local Journalism

Museums Without Walls Virtual Residency Programme

NEMO publishes detailed overview of museum reopenings in Europe

Registration open for NEMO Webinar on future of museums

Guardians of Sleep: An oral testimony project by the Museum of Dreams & the Museum of London

Roundtable with Dave Patten, The Science Museum

MuseumNext: DIGITAL SUMMIT | 22 – 26 February 2021

Art Fund_

Museums Immersive Network: Futureproofing Museums For A Post-Covid World.

Museums Worldwide Begin to Reopen as Vaccination Centers

Danish museums welcomed 3 million less visitors in 2020

MEPs call for a durable cultural heritage policy to constrain effects of pandemic

ASEF Webinar series: Culture in the Time of Covid

Hallmarks at Home – Business planning: Adapting as a result of COVID-19

Our World Heritage: “One World Seminar”

The New York Times: Entrepreneurs Bet Big on Immersive Art Despite Covid-19

The Art of Reopening: A Guide to Current Practices Among Arts Organizations During COVID-19

Online Exhibition | We=Link: Sideways

NEMO follow-up report on the continued impact of Covid-19 on the museum sector

Free webinar series on the future of museums

BE MUSEUMER Online Conference – Museums and Covid-19

How Will We Tell the Story of the Coronavirus?

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