Author: ICOM Admin

For museums worldwide, the pandemic crisis has shed a light on new directions to consider.  Despite the fact that several years before the pandemic, digitalization brought humankind to a place where nobody wanted to go, a place of isolation and introverted youth, with diminishing human interaction, we can now regard it as a preparation period.  […]

Read More… from IMD Think Piece by Arta Agani, Director, National Gallery of Kosovo

Tsinghua University Art Museum (TAM) officially opened in the fall of 2016.  As a university museum, TAM houses a collection of more than 13,000 objects dating from antiquity to the present day, including masterpieces of Chinese painting and calligraphy, porcelain, and furniture, alongside many other historical, modern and contemporary artefacts. Due to the crisis of […]

Read More… from IMD Think Piece by Du Pengfei, Deputy Executive Director of Tsinghua University Art Museum, China

Culture is great because of its diversity.  The protection and inheritance of diversified culture is one of the most important missions of the museum.  Museums should incorporate the concept of pluralism and inclusion into their business and practice, and further enhance mutual learning and inclusion in the world through continuous innovation, exhibitions and educational activities […]

Read More… from IMD Think Piece by Wang Bin, Director of the Tang West Market Museum, China

Almost all museums worldwide have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic, and the Palace Museum is no exception.  The disruption caused by the pandemic has prompted immediate responses ranging from free online courses to nationwide live broadcasts at the Palace Museum, which was closed from 24 January to 30 April 2020.  Amid the outbreak, the […]

Read More… from IMD Think Piece by Guo Meixia, Deputy Director, Publicity and Education Department, The Palace Museum, Beijing, China

Following this pandemic, most museums will have to face challenges on many economic, political and social issues. Among them, the most serious may be budget constraints for government-funded museums and the increased difficulty of fundraising for private museums. The second-biggest challenge may be the inevitable political and social changes in the ways that decisions are […]

Read More… from IMD Think Piece by Dr. Nu Mra Zan, Museum Consultant, Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture, Myanmar

There can be little doubt that Covid-19 is leaving in its wake a world with heightened inequities, monumental poverty, and drastically reduced access to opportunities.  How does a museum deal with such a world, and sustain its efforts to remain an inclusive space?  It’s an immense challenge for us in the Victoria Memorial Hall (VMH), […]

Read More… from IMD Think Piece by Jayanta Sengupta, Secretary and Curator, Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, India

As we battle a global pandemic, the familiar physical access to museums has been suddenly disrupted.  The digital realm has become new terrain to traverse, in pursuit of creating an accessible museum experience.   Access to museum collections, as sources of inspiration and healing, is more crucial than ever.  The Care Collection – a collaboration between […]

Read More… from IMD Think Piece by Siak Ching Chong, CEO, National Gallery Singapore

We had to come up with new ways to meet our audience in the time of an unprecedented pandemic.  For example, we filmed an in-depth curator’s tour of our new calligraphy exhibition and widely publicised it to reach new audiences.  We have also strengthened our online presence by shaking up our website and adding various […]

Read More… from IMD Think Piece by Bummo Youn, Director, MMCA, Korea

Over the last few years we have been wondering how the museum of the future might look. We imagined scenarios and did prospective analysis.   There were also conferences where we – unsuccessfully – tried to find new ways of defining museums.  There was no rush and we did it facing a future that seemed far […]

Read More… from IMD Think Piece by Patricia Villanueva, Educational Projects Curator, Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru