The 2026 Ecsite Conference takes place from 2-4 June and will be hosted at Universeum in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Conference: From Stage to State - The Role of Art in Shaping Democratic Spaces will be held in Kraków Poland between 9-11 June 2026.
The next Twenty-First International Conference on the Arts in Society will be held in Athens, Greece between 10-12 June 2026. The Focus is Modeling Life Systems: Art, Algorithms, Ecologies.
Join AIM National Conference at Ushaw Historic House and Gardens, and Beamish on 10 and 11 June 2026
The 18th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management will be held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on July 1 - 3, 2026.
The 12th International Network of Museums for Peace Conference will take place from August 12 to 16, 2026 in Winnipeg, Canada.
The next AEOM to be held from 7-10 September 2026 at Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum, Bucharest and ASTRA Museum, Sibiu.
GEM Conference 2026: Learning is Digital will take place on 9-11 September 2026 at Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, UK and online.
The next biennial ICMM Congress (conference), to be held from 14 – 18 September 2026 at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney, Australia.
The 2026 IAMFA Conference will be held in Florence, Italy 14-18 September.
Museum Ideas 2026 will be held in London on 16 September 2026.
The 19th International Conference on the Inclusive Museum will be a hybrid conference held on the theme "The Future of Museum Narratives” in Sydney, Australia and online.
Momentum: Museums, Exhibitions, and Disruptions – How Far Dare We Go? The ICOM Exhibitions Conference 2026 will be held October 4 to 8, 2026 at Québec City, Canada.
2026 NEMO European Museum Conference: Human after all - Museums in the wake of AI will be held from 11-13 October 2026 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Communicating the Arts - Ottawa-Gatineau 2026 will be held 14-16 October at Canadian Museum of History.
Design for Empathy Summit Awe & Wonder! will take place in San Diego on 21-23 October 2026.
The 2026 ICEthics Annual Conference, titled Echoes of Conflict, Paths to Peace, will be taking place on October 27–28, 2026, at the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo.
The 2026 DEMIST Conference 2026, titled SHIFTING LINES: Historical Houses in the age of AI will be taking place on October 25-29, 2026, at the the Palace for Versailles.
The Meet, See, Do 2026 conference Museums as Living Institutions: Ethics, Participation, Sustainability & Care will take place in Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 28–29 October 2026.
The Museums Association’s annual conference 2026 will take place on 2-5 November 2026 at Birmingham Repertory Theatre/Library of Birmingham.
Post Discipline takes place in Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart from 11 to 13 November 2026.
2026 MBD Conference takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria from 12 to 14 November 2026.
MCG Museums+Tech 2026 Conference takes place in M Shed, Bristol, UK on Friday 27 November 2026.
Museum Connections Paris 2027 will take place on 12-13 November at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles - Hall 5.2.
AAM 2026 will take place in Philadelphia, PA from May 20-23, 2026.
Our exploration of socio-cultural centres as defenders of democratic participation continued at Culture Converge 2026, our annual conference that took place on May 20th - 22nd.
The annual Museums + Heritage Show featuring more than 70 free talks as well as 150 suppliers and consultants in two days will take place 13-14 May 2026.
“Culture Matters Here. Cultivating Creative Place-based Innovation in Non-urban Communities,” will take place in Valmiera, Latvia, from 11-13 May 2026.
The International Museum Construction Congress (IMCC) InFocus will next be held in Bilbao and San Sebastian in May 2026.
Co-creation, Convening, and Care, a one-day conference hosted at Manchester Museum exploring how museums can be reimagined as places of partnership, care and social change. will take place 6 May 2026.
Join the AAMC Foundation on April 30 & May 1, 2026 in New York City for the annual Art Curators Conference.
Cultural Mobility Forum 2026 conference will take place in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia from April 29-30 2026.
The 2026 Art + Environment Summit is presented alongside the major museum-wide exhibition, Into the Time Horizon, and convenes prominent artists, writers, Indigenous leaders, designers, and interdisciplinary thinkers for a three-day gathering in Reno, Nevada.
The next Interpret Europe conference will be from 16 to 19 April 2026 in Faro, Portugal.
The 2026 ICOM UK conference will take place on 16 and 17 April 2026 in Oxford, UK.
Art for Tomorrow 2026 conference will take place in Doha from April 12-15 2026.
Let's Get Real Conference 2026: AI will take place on March 19, 2026 in London.
CAM 2026 conference - Reframing, set to take place from March 10–13, 2026 in Los Angeles.
On 9 and 10 March, the Rijksmuseum will host the fifth Women in the Museum symposium, featuring two days of lectures, panels, and hands-on workshops.
The next edition of the MuseumNext Green Museums Summit will be held virtually between 12pm, February 25–5pm, February 26, 2026.
The CAA 114th Annual Conference will be held February 18–21, 2026, at the Hilton Chicago with over 275 sessions, workshops, and events..
The fourth FACT symposium, will be held February 18–21, 2026, at this February at ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne.
Join us at ICC Birmingham on 10-11 February 2026 for Cultural Enterprises Conference - two days of collaboration and inspiration to help you maximise your commercial income.
The UK’s largest family arts and culture conference returns on Thursday 12th February 2026 at Northern Stage.
The 2026 BAFA Conference for Festivals will bring the arts festivals sector together from 19-20 January 2026 at Birmingham.
The next edition of The Art Museum in the Digital Age will be held virtually between 19–23 January 2026
Legacies: Why Museum Histories Matter conference will be held 13–15 January 2026, Leiden University, the Netherlands
The ISPA New York Congress will be held between 13-15, January 2026.
International Conference on iNCLUSION in the Heritage Sector is taking place at Boğaziçi University on January 10, 2026
A brand new event MuseumNext Forecast will be held virtually between 17 - 18 December 2025.
The CoMuseum Conference 2025 will be held in ATHENS & THESSALONIKI on December 3 -5, 2025.
2025 World Public Art Conference at United Nations will be held in New York City on December 3, 2025.
Training for the Contact Zone Conference Conference will be held in Bucharest and online on December 2-3, 2025.
Under the title “Diversity and Discourse – Engaging Museum Visitors in the 21st Century”, the fourth international conference of the Center of Excellence for Museum Education will take place in Berlin on November 27–28, 2025.
