The 12th edition of the Hands On! conference of the International Association of Children in Museums will focus on museums’ roles as places of social inclusion.
The third International Conference of the CREATOUR Project is devoted to Creative Tourism Dynamics, with a particular focus on communicating, engaging, and connecting travellers with local communities and place through creative tourism.
Beyond the Obvious creates a space to rethink culture, to explore its borders and edges and aims to move beyond those conventional assumptions, beliefs and practices that impede the contribution of culture to social and economic regeneration at a local, national, and European level.
The third edition of the annual MuseumNext Digital Summit will focus on the theme "Making Digital Happen".
Hosted by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the summit "Internationalism after the end of globalisation" will play the dual role of a conference and a workshop session to review and develop theoretical and practical responses to neoliberal globalisation.
Placemaker Week ASEAN will showcase dynamic, enthusiastic, and passionate speakers on innovative best practices of placemaking in Southeast Asia, focusing on three themes: waterfronts, historical streets, and healthy communities.
The National Programmes Conference 2019 is a one-day conference on issues of representation, authority, and power in museums with a particular focus on disability, class, gender, race, and sexuality.
The 12th international conference on The Inclusive Museum will be held in Buenos Aires at Muntref Museum of Immigration and features research on museums, heritage and sustainable tourism.
MuseumNext New York will focus on the theme of 'The Future of Museum Storytelling’.
The 27th Annual Conference of the Network of European Museum Organisations (NEMO) will be held in Tartu, Estonia, on “Museums 2030 - Sharing recipes for a better future”.
Communicating the Arts Sydney will gather 300 communication and fundraising experts working in the arts, focusing on what arts leadership means, what it does, and how to wield it.
Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities (DCDC) 2019 will focus on "Navigating the digital shift: practices and possibilities". Hosted by The National Archives, Research Libraries UK and Jisc, DCDC is a collaborative conference series that brings together colleagues from across the archive, library, museum and academic sectors to explore shared opportunities, collective challenges, and to discuss how each sector can work more effectively with one another.
Culture Business Sydney will address issues facing arts fundraisers today, focusing on philanthropy, corporate sponsorship, organisational structure, and new revenue streams to provide fundraisers with the tools to take their fundraising to the next level.
Business of Design Week (BODW) organised by Hong Kong Design Centre brings some of the world's most outstanding design masters and influential business figures to Hong Kong. BODW 2019 will feature the UK as the 2019 official partner country and will showcase the best of British design, led by the Department for International Trade (DIT) and GREAT Britain Campaign.
The 41st annual Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) Conference will be held at UCL on "Power, Knowledge and the Past".
Museum Connections assists museums and cultural sites in their economic development.
Organised by students of the Cultural Leadership Research Master Programme at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, the Arts and Cultural Management Conference for Students and Young Professionals will focus on "Curating Europe", dealing with the role of curators and cultural management trends in the European cultural sector.
Hosted at the Royal Opera House and the Royal Academy of Arts, REMIX London 2020 will feature world-class keynotes, panels, networking and debates on culture, technology, and entrepreneurship.
The 24th edition of SITEM will take place in Paris, gathering professionals of the cultural and tourist ecosystem for three days for a trade fair alongside discussions on preserving cultural sites and heritage.
Organised by Jessica Morgan, director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York, the 2020 Verbier Art Summit will focus on the theme "Resource Hungry: Our Cultured Landscape and its Ecological Impact".
The 22nd International Conference on Cultural Policy (ICCP) will be held in 2020 to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Cultural Policy.
The Visitor Studies Group Conference 2020 will focus on "Co-Creating the Future: Participation and the Role of Visitor Studies".
The Commonwealth Association of Museums' 2020 Triennial International Conference, “Living Forward, Looking Back: Museum Practice for Postcolonial Futures”, will explore issues of difficult histories in post-colonial societies.
Supported by the British Council and hosted by ICOM UK and the National Museum Directors’ Council, the Working Internationally 2020 conference will be held at Leeds Art Gallery on the practicalities of museums working internationally.
MuseumNext returns to Edinburgh with a three day conference about transforming Museums.
Museums and the Web run an annual conference in North America and Asia and occasional "deep dives" to sites of digital innovation in the field. MW20 will be held in Los Angeles.
The annual European Museum of the Year Conference and Awards Ceremony showcases innovation in European museums and will include presentations by more than 40 museums. In 2020, it will be held at National Museum Cardiff.
InterActivity is the Association of Children's Museums' annual meeting - the world's largest convening of children's museum professionals.
Interpret Europe Conference 2020 will focus on "Fostering heritage communities", exploring how heritage communities are a cornerstone of the Council of Europe's Faro Convention.
The international conference Florence Heri-Tech: The Future of Heritage Science and Technologies is a part of the Florence International Biennial for Art and Restoration.
The American Alliance of Museums' Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo in 2020 will feature the theme "A Bridge to the Future" and will focus on museums' potential to ally with other sectors to address intractable social and economic problems.
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 21st International Conference on Cultural Economics will be held in 2020 in Lille, focusing on cultural policy with keynote presentations and special sessions involving cultural institutions and policymakers to discuss this topical area.
The Fifth Biennial Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies' theme – Futures – aims to engage seriously and critically with the often stated aims of heritage to address the concerns of future generations.
The next Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference will be held in Bristol in 2021 and is aimed at those working with or interested in learning more about the arts/heritage/creativity and health/wellbeing.
The largest convening of arts funders, the 2019 annual conference Grantmakers in the Arts will focus on the theme of "Cultural Intersections".
The 23rd edition of the "Communicating the Arts" conference in Montreal will focus on well-being, empathy, and inclusivity in the arts.
The 29th annual meeting of the Association of European Migration Institutions will be held in Antwerp in 2019 on the theme "Migrating Memories: Dialogues on the relationship between memory, heritage and migration".
The 2019 theme for the UK Museums Association Annual Conference and Exhibition in Brighton will be "Sustainable and Ethical Museums in a Globalised World".
The 2019 ENCATC Congress on Cultural Management and Policy will take place around the main theme "Diversity and sustainability at work: policies and practices from culture and education".
Presented by the Project for Public Spaces and co-hosted by The Enterprise Center, the 3rd International Placemaking Week will take place in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The 18th edition of The Best in Heritage conference will feature award-winning museum, heritage, and conservation projects and will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
The GEM Conference 2019 will focus on "Connection, Action, Innovation: Forging dynamic and lasting partnerships with communities".
The eighth edition of the annual Museum Ideas international conference will be held in London in 2019, exploring social impact, new models of collaborative and socially engaged participatory practice, activism, progressive public engagement and much more.
ICOM Kyoto 2019 General Conference will be held on the theme “Museums as Cultural Hubs: The Future of Tradition” and aims to provide a forum for considering how museums look towards the future whilst respecting the traditions of the past.
The third edition of REMIX Academy Perth will explore the trends shaping the future of the creative economy in Western Australia: from cultural tourism to the future of work, new models for cultural organisations, to data insights and more.
The theme of the tenth Nordic Conference on Cultural Policy Research (NCCPR) is "Culture and the Periphery: Nordic Cultural Policy and its Margins", and will focus on cultural peripheries and questions concerning marginal culture, definitional boundaries of cultural policy research, and fringes in cultural politics.
A the place to network, engage, and raise awareness of your brand with around 500 cultural professionals from a wide range of different organisations.
Queering Memory: ALMS Conference Berlin 2019 is an international LGBTIQ+ conference that will explore the potentials of generating publicities for queer archives, libraries, museums, and special collections, with a special focus on the arts and artistic interventions.
Museums in Arabia 2019 will explore the regional and international actors and agents who are actively involved in producing and challenging cultural formations and systems of knowledge production in the Gulf States.
The 12th Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History will address the theme of "Global Cultural History".
AIMAC is the oldest and largest association dedicated to the management of arts and culture and hosts a biennial conference.
The second Andrew W. Mellon Conference will be titled "Traversing the Gap: Relevance as a Transformative Force at Sites of Public Memory" and will be held at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum between 19-21 June 2019.
Knowledge of Design Week (KODW) 2019 focuses on "Designing Digital Futures".
The theme for Communicating the Arts Copenhagen is “COME TOGETHER: Co-creation, cooperation and collaboration”.
The Arctic Arts Summit 2019 will focus on "The Arctic as a Laboratory for sustainable art and cultural policy".
The annual MuseumNext conference in Europe will be held at the Royal Geographic Society in London in 2019.
The 38th Annual AAAE Conference will take place in Madison, WI, hosted by the Bolz Center for Arts Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on “The Future of Arts Administration Education: Evolution, reinvention, and transformation”.
The 2019 conference of We Are Museums will be held in Katowice, Poland, at the Museum Slaskie, focusing on “Next-Door Museums”: examining how local communities can breathe life into cultural spaces and how they, in turn, become a focal point for communities and individuals.
Brokering Intercultural Exchange is an AHRC funded network of researchers, policymakers, and arts and cultural management practitioners who are interested in developing greater critical discourse on the contribution of arts and cultural management to intercultural understanding. The annual conference will bring together researchers from different fields as well as practitioners who are keen on investigating these ideas through presentations and discussion.
TEH Conference #87, "pARTicipation", is the annual meeting of Trans Europe Halles, a network of self-organised cultural centres with over 100 members across Europe, and will focus on arts and participation.
The annual Museums + Heritage Show offers two days featuring more than 50 free talks as well as 150 suppliers and consultants.
The annual Archiving conference by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology will bring together imaging scientists and those working in the cultural heritage community as well as in government, industry, and academia to discuss the most pressing issues related to the digital preservation, preservation, and access of 2D, 3D, and AV materials.
The CAS Annual Conference will be held on "Re-writing the Canon?" and will bring together scholars, curators, and museum professionals to consider significant recent initiatives in collecting, exhibitions and display, and the issues they raise.
Connecting Culture: Europe is a one-day conference organised by Experience UK, in association with the Department for International Trade and in partnership with MuseumINSIDER.
