Today Wednesday August 5, 2020 seasoned and celebrated stakeholders in the museum ecosystem will converge via an online discussion that will explore fruitful synergies between museums and their communities.
The webinar, organized by the International Council Of Museums, ICOM, will present an open online debate regarding the current relationship between museums and local communities, proposing actions and activities recently implemented in different areas of the world. The webinar aims to emphasize the crucial role that local communities can play towards cultural institutions of any size. Especially within the current context of a global pandemic, fruitful synergies bonding museums with the surrounding communities can lead to high-impact projects, for the benefit of both the cultural sector and society.
‘‘Following the two webinars on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and innovative solutions to face it, ICOM hopes to continue its commitment to support the museum community with an online discussion that will explore fruitful synergies between museums and their communities. Since the very beginning of the COVID-19 emergency ICOM has sought to assist its members and the international museum community in search of solutions that could effectively respond to the multiple issues faced by global cultural institutions. By regularly updating the website section dedicated to the pandemic, we have committed ourselves to take into account the different aspects of this crisis affecting the work of museums and museum professionals, with the collaboration of several key partners’’ a statement from ICOM reads.
The webinar will be declared open with a welcome speech by Dr. Peter Keller, Director General of ICOM, and the introduction of the main discussion.
Vinod Daniel, Internationally recognized museum specialist, will moderate the webinar, with international specialists like Paulina Roblero, Head of Communications and Public Affairs of the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art, Bonita Bennett, a former Director of the District Six Museum in Cape Town South Africa, Kenji Saotome, a curator at Suita City Museum in Osaka, Japan, and Carol Rogers. an MBE (Member of the British Empire) from the U.K.
According to ICOM, it hopes to continue its commitment to support the museum community.
Recall that the second ICOM webinar on June 24 had more than 3,000 participants on the live streaming platform.