International Museum Day (IMD) takes place on Monday 18 May 2020. The theme selected by ICOM for 2020 is Museums for Equality: Diversity and Inclusion.
To mark IMD2020, ICOM UK and the British Council have developed a programme of events and activities that engage museum workers and audiences in a conversation about diversity and inclusion post-COVID-19:
- Think Pieces: We have invited museums leaders from around the world to contribute short reflections or provocations aimed at inspiring new thinking and stimulating action. Scroll down to read Think Pieces written by Gus Casely-Hayford, Director V&A East, Raphael Chikukwa, Acting Director, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, and many other influential international sector professionals.
- In Conversation: On Monday 18 May, 12:00 – 13:30 BST, ICOM UK hosted three short panel discussions on Zoom with professionals in the sector exploring various threads of the theme including disability and access and digital technology, framed within the current context of COVID-19. Scroll down to watch the recording of the discussion.
- Community Crowdsource: During the COVID-19 crisis, ICOM UK invites all members to reflect on what they can do to increase museum diversity and inclusion. Members can post their individual commitments to diversity and inclusion on an online corkboard (Padlet) and via a Twitter campaign. We share these ideas to inspire others to action.
- ArtUK online exhibition from the British Council Collections curated by Tonya Nelson, Chair, ICOM UK
We look forward to hearing from all of our UK ICOM members and the wider museum community to help build a new future for equality, diversity and inclusion.
#IMD2020 @UK_ICOM @BritishCouncil
Visit ICOM’s IMD website for more information on the theme and to see the map of events taking place digitally across the world http://imd.icom.museum/
Museums in a Covid World: ICOM UK Celebrates International Museum Day 2020, Monday 18 May 2020
IMD2020 Think Pieces
Gus Casely-Hayford, Director V&A East, London
Raphael Chikukwa, Acting Director, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Errol Francis, Artistic Director and Curator of Heritage Programmes
Becki Morris, Director, Disability Collaborative Network (DCN)
Yanyue Yuan, Assistant Arts Professor, NYU Shanghai
Mami Kataoka, Director, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Siddhant Shah, Museum Accessibility Expert and Founder, AccessForALL.co
İlkay Baliç, Director of Communications, Arter, Istanbul
Dominika Jagiełło, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Mohamed A. Cissé, independent curator and art advisor
Kofo Adeleke, President, Legacy1995, Nigeria
Manasi Prasad, Museum Director, Indian Music Experience
Jadwiga Charzyńska, Director, Centre for Contemporary Art, Łaźnia, Poland
Ozalp Birol, General Manager of the Pera Museum and the Istanbul Research Institute, Turkey
Arta Agani, Director, National Gallery of Kosovo
Du Pengfei, Deputy Executive Director of Tsinghua University Art Museum, China
Wang Bin, Director of the Tang West Market Museum, China
Guo Meixia, Deputy Director, Publicity and Education Department, The Palace Museum, China
Dr. Nu Mra Zan, Museum Consultant, Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture, Myanmar
Jayanta Sengupta, Secretary and Curator, Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, India
Siak Ching Chong, CEO of the National Gallery Singapore
Bummo Youn, Director, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea
Patricia Villanueva, Educational Projects Curator, Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru
Bartomeu Marí, Former Director MALI, Lima, Peru
María del Pilar Riofrío, MUCEN, Lima, Peru
Rubén Buitrón, El Brujo Arqueological Complex, Peru
Dr. Maria Mok, Museum Director, Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA)
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