ICOM Dubai Conference 2025

Held every three years, the ICOM General Conference is a global event in the museum field, bringing together thousands of professionals from all over the world to shape the future of museums through dialogue, exchange, and collaboration. ICOM Dubai 2025 conference will be hybrid, enabling global participation. Visionary speakers, including renowned museum professionals and cultural […]

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Help shape a new museum ‘matchmaking’ service!

We invite you to take part in a short survey, commissioned by ICOM UK and the British Council, as part of our research project to explore a potential “matchmaking” service to make connections between UK and international museums. Whether you lead, work with, in, or collaborate alongside museums of any size or focus, your input to this study would be […]

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ICOM UK Conference 2026: Call for Papers

The 2026 ICOM UK conference “Museum Diplomacy in Action” will take place on 16 and 17 April 2026 in Oxford, UK. This conference will explore the unique position of museums as powerful cultural diplomats in an uncertain world.  Showcasing globally-engaged practice from around the world, the conference will share practical examples of how museums can engage […]

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Reducing Environmental Impact in Public Programming

This article was first published by Art Fund. Art Fund, in collaboration with THE HERDS and the Design Museum, have published a toolkit with practical guidance on environmental responsibility for museum learning professionals. Every job is a climate job. Your example will inspire others. From finding language that resonates with local audiences, to thinking about the […]

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British Museum ball disrupted by climate protestor demanding end to BP sponsorship

This article was first published by The Art Newspaper. The British Museum’s Pink Ball fundraising gala on Saturday was disrupted when a climate protestor took to the stage during a speech by the museum’s chair of trustees, George Osborne. More than 800 guests attended the £2000–per–ticket event, including the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the Mayor of […]

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V&A: Call for papers – Ukrainian Cultural Heritage and UK Institutions: Shifting Perspectives and Practice

This article was first published by the V&A. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, cultural institutions around the world have become more aware of the long-standing attempts at erasure and appropriation of Ukrainian identity, as well as the need to better situate Ukrainian cultural heritage within the complex history of colonial dynamics in Eastern Europe. However […]

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Triceratops: Eat, Roam, Repeat to open at Manchester Museum

Manchester Museum invites families to come face-to-face with one of the most famous dinosaurs of all time Visitors will come face-to-face with a magnificent, fossilised Triceratops skull, as part of a fun, family-friendly experience that will reveal how this three-horned giant lived, what it ate and how it survived battles with predators like the mighty […]

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The Netherlands will return Dubois collection to Indonesia

This article was first published by The Government of Netherlands. The Netherlands plans to transfer more than 28,000 fossils from the Dubois collection to Indonesia, following a request by Indonesian authorities. Gouke Moes, Minister of Education, Culture and Science, presented a letter to the Indonesian minister Fadli Zon (Culture) announcing this decision. The collection is currently […]

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National Museums Liverpool: Transatlantic Slavery Preparing for the Bicentenaries of the Abolition of Slavery in the 2030s

This article was first published by National Museums Liverpool. Location: Online or Museum of Liverpool, Pier Head, Liverpool, United Kingdom L3 1DGDate and time: 20 November 2025, 9.30am to 4.30pm / 21 November 2025 9am to 1.15pm The Transatlantic Slavery and Legacies in Museums Forum is delighted to announce that we will be hosting a Symposium at […]

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