Calling For Members: Join the ICOM UK Student and Emerging Professionals Working Group

ICOM UK Student and Emerging Professionals Working Group was initiated following a session at ICOM UK’s 2022 Conference ‘Career challenges facing Students and Early Career Professionals’, which highlighted the challenges many students and emerging professionals face when they first enter the cultural sector. Since April 2022, the Working Group have organised a series of events for students and emerging professionals. This platform aims to […]

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British Library released Knowledge Without Borders report

On 13 April, the British Library released Knowledge Without Borders, its first report exploring the impact of its international collaborations with partners around the world. The year 2023/24 marked significant milestones in the British Library’s global partnerships including: […]

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UK-Wide Campaign Launches to Fund Museum Visits for 100,000 Schoolchildren

At the British Museum this morning, leading philanthropist Frédéric Jousset has launched a major campaign to tackle cultural inequality in the UK by bringing over a hundred thousand children on school trips to museums across the country.  His foundation, Art Explora, teamed up with the British Museum to launch Time Odyssey – a new interactive […]

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International Congress of Culture in Climate Action 2025- Call for Abstracts

Researchers, professionals, and cultural practitioners are invited to submit abstracts for the International Congress of Culture in Climate Action 2025. The congress aims to explore the intersection of culture and sustainability across diverse fields. Abstracts can be submitted in Spanish, Portuguese, or English and must be between 200 and 300 words. The submission deadline is […]

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Empowering Growth: Sustainable Fundraising Strategies

This article was first published by the Museums Association.Event details:Date- 4 June 2025Time-1100-1600Location- Online, Zoom Fundraising is an essential survival tool for museums of all shapes and sizes – from nationals to civic to small independents. This event will look at how years of austerity, Covid and rising costs have impacted the fundraising landscape – […]

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ICOM UK helps to save books from a missile attack in Ukraine

Friday 23 May marked a terrible anniversary when, in 2024, Russian missiles attacked the Faktor-Druk printing house in Kharkiv, Ukraine, killing seven people and injuring many others. Kharkiv is Ukraine’s second largest city and a major publishing centre. The building sustained heavy damage and most books being worked on at the time were destroyed. With the […]

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ICOM UK Conference 2025 Reviewed by Blooloop

ICOM UK, the UK’s only museum alliance with an international focus, hosted its annual conference in Liverpool from 1 – 2 May 2025. The conference brought together museum professionals to examine how the museum and heritage industry can address climate and social emergencies through regenerative practices. Over the course of the two days, attendees got to […]

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ICOM Triennial Conference 2025 – ICOMON Call for Papers

ICOM’s International Committee for Money and Banking museums, (ICOMON), along with partner committees INTERCOM, ICOM ARAB, ICOM SEE, IMREC, ICOM UK, and ICOM France, invites participants of the ICOM Dubai Conference to submit proposals for presentations on the theme of: ‘The Future of Museums in a Rapidly Changing World: the essential role of leadership to […]

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