Capturing the mindset of a generation of museum leaders at a moment of accelerated change.
ICOM has prepared a list of case studies and best practices in digital outreach that can inspire museums to bring their programmes online.
This third ICOM global survey, which was open from 15 April to 29 May 2021, investigated a scenario which is certainly still a crisis, but which is also increasingly being described as ‘the new normal’.
This event brings together Boulder-based artists, writers, and performers to talk about how the pandemic has impacted and informed their recent work.
MEI’s Arts & Culture Center invites artists from the region and its diaspora to submit artwork for the forthcoming exhibition, “Art in Isolation: Creativity in the Time of COVID-19.”
For the Dutch-Russian online conference Sustainable Dialogues 2021, taking place 4-6 October, DutchCulture organises an open call.
NEMO has updated its interactive map of museum reopenings and closings and is happy to confirm that all countries across Europe included in the map allow museums to be open. The last country to officially allow all museums to reopen was Italy on 21 June 2021.
The webinar will explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on conservation and conservation learning across the broadest scope of ICCROM works.
This event will explore developing and gaining curatorial experience during the pandemic.
On 3-4 June, Europeana and the National Library of Portugal hosted an online conference in partnership with Portugal’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union on building capacity for the digital transformation of the cultural heritage sector.
For the first time this year, the annual programme for Kunstpavillon and Neue Galerie Innsbruck is being announced with a specific theme.
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) has released the first set of data for Indicator 11.4.1 related to culture for the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Agenda 2030.
Arts venues preparing to reopen are invited to use the #celfaragor or #artsareopen hashtags – already in use by the Arts Council of Wales – to draw attention to their plans.
More than $3 million will flow under the third batch of the Australian Government’s COVID-19 Arts Sustainability Fund, to support two leading Arts organisations hit hard by the pandemic.
From Wednesday 19 May, museums, exhibitions and monuments in France will be back to their public with an offer of unparalleled wealth.
The year 2021’s International Museum Day is themed on “The Future of Museums: Recover and Reimagine,” which aims to share ideas on how museums should face and adapt to the multiple challenges during the pandemic and actively explore new directions and models for museum development in the future.
Catherine Martin TD, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, has welcomed the reopening of Ireland’s National Cultural Institutions, along with galleries, museums and libraries across the country. Many of these cultural attractions welcomed their first visitors back following several months of closure due to COVID-19 public health measures.
In recent years, cultural heritage has increasingly become the focus of attention of the European Commission. INCREAS project serves to continue several actions taken in recent years and to create a strong sector combining cultural heritage and cultural and creative industries for the benefit of both.
With the beginning of this week, and after months of closure, Italian museums, theaters and cinemas have reopened their doors in most of the country’s regions. And with a €6.7 billion ($8 billion) plan, Italy’s Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini is now intending to relaunch the entire sector. “Culture will give a great contribution to the country’s recovery,” he announced.
This is a survey on research needs of cities and local authorities related to the role of culture for social inclusion on the local level – this is part of one of the specific actions from the Action Plan of the Urban Agenda for the EU Partnership on Culture/Cultural Heritage.
#MuseumWeek is the first worldwide cultural festival on social media. For seven days, cultural and public institutions will be invited to show creativity with their smartphones on the occasion of this eighth edition.
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.
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.
The acceptance of virtual couriers is rapidly transforming the way artworks travel around the world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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