Sixteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum
Museum Transformations: Pathways to Community Engagement
UBC Robson Square, Vancouver/Canada
18-20 September 2023
https://onmuseums.com/2023-conference
(hybrid)
How can the institution of the museum become inclusive? This is an open-ended manifesto of the Inclusive Museum Research Network without seeking any constraining definition of the museum’s form or reach or engagement. Dr Lonnie Bunch asserted that while museums cannot simply be community centres, they have to be at the centre of their communities, framing what has changed and what needs still to be changed“. The inclusive museum is an aspirational space that is created and recreated based on the context and relevance to multiple stakeholder communities. It liberates communities and institutions from legacies, enables the first voice, and empowers people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds with a sense of place and multiple identities addressing intersectionality across cultural borders through appropriate capacity building. Connecting collections and communities is critical where the collections themselves are diversifying and evolving reflecting the multicultural populations beyond the binary of self and the other. The inclusive museum is the human face to globalisation.
The Sixteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum calls for research addressing the following annual themes and special focus:
2023 Special Focus—Museum Transformations: Pathways to Community Engagement
- Theme 1: Visitors
- Theme 2: Collections
- Theme 3: Representations
Proposal Deadlines
Regular Proposal Deadline: 18 June 2023
Late Proposal Deadline: 18 August 2023
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Seventeenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum
Intersectionality: Museums, Inclusion, and SDGs
MuseumsQuartier, Vienna/Austria
September 13-15, 2024
https://onmuseums.com/2024-conference
(hybrid)
Founded in 2008, The Inclusive Museum Research Network is brought together by a shared concern for the future role of the museum and how it can become more inclusive. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
The Seventeenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum calls for research addressing the following annual themes and special focus:
2024 Special Focus—Intersectionality: Museums, Inclusion, and SDGs
- Theme 1: Visitors
- Theme 2: Collections
- Theme 3: Representations
Proposal Deadlines
Advance Proposal Deadline: 13 November 2023
Early Proposal Deadline: 13 February 2024
Regular Proposal Deadline: 13 June 2024
Late Proposal Deadline: 13 August 2024