Co-museum

WORKSHOPS AND MASTERCLASSES

DECEMBER 3

14:00 – 19:30 (Eastern European Time)

14:00 – 15:30

WORKSHOP
Museums and Recovery: Empathy, Interaction and Co-creation in a time of profound change
with Dr Tom Fleming, Director, Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy | Expert on Creative Economy, Cultural and Arts Policy (UK)

Museums have always been vital hubs for engagement, education and inspiration. The Covid-19 crisis has brought into focus the ways museums give meaning and enhance our wellbeing, as well as how they anchor communities and contribute to inclusive growth. As we hopefully emerge from the crisis, museums will help us to rebuild trust, re-engage with our communities, and shape fresh perspectives in terms of what we value and how we live our lives. This will be a sensitive and challenging process, where museums will need to show empathy, to listen and learn. But it can also be a process of optimism, an opportunity to create a new type of museum which can help us to rebuild. This workshop will explore how museums are playing a role in recovery and explore new pathways for engagement, partnership and strategic development. It will draw on participants’ experiences of challenges and new opportunities.

14:00 – 15:30

MASTERCLASS
Game Changer – Exploring History and Heritage with Minecraft
with Stephen Reid, Senior Customer Engagement PM, Microsoft (UK)

In this session, we will explore how history and heritage, both locally and globally can be brought to live through the power of play and game-based learning. Using Minecraft, Microsoft’s Stephen Reid has recreated learning experiences that take students to the moment Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on the city of Pompeii, the trenches of WWI, 1911, Scotland, an iron age archaeological dig, and more. Bringing history education to the masses. We will also explore how these experiences can be exported to a range of technologies such as 3D printing, virtual reality, and Sketchfab.

17:00 – 18:15

WORKSHOP
How to Explore a Highly Disruptive Future
with Elizabeth Merritt, Vice President, Strategic Foresight, and Founding Director, Center for the Future of Museums, American Alliance of Museums (U.S.)

In this masterclass, participants will learn how to use strategic foresight tools to explore the implications and impact of the news pouring across our feeds in this troubled year. Taught by Elizabeth Merritt, Vice President of Strategic Foresight and Founding Director, Center for the Future of Museums, American Alliance of Museums.

18:00 – 19:30

MASTERCLASS
Museum Reboot: Reimagining our Journey
with Lori Fogarty, Director and CEO, Oakland Museum of California (U.S.)

The museum field in the U.S. and around the world is facing a time of unparalleled challenge with the confluence of crises created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic fall-out. At the same time, museums are contending with both the implications and the opportunities afforded by the national and even international reckoning for racial justice. Museums will emerge from the immediate circumstances needing new approaches, tools, and resources to reimagine and plan for a future within a dramatically different social, cultural, and even physical landscape. Learn how the Oakland Museum of California is beginning to reimagine its journey forward, centering equity and inclusion in its strategic and financial planning.

DECEMBER 4

13.00 – 17.00 (Eastern European Time)

13:00 – 14:30

MASTERCLASS
Embracing the Relationship, Museums and Audiences: A presentation from the International Audience Engagement Network
With
Elisha Buttler, Audience Engagement Manager, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne (AU)
Leigh Cartwright, Front of House Manager, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne (AU)
Chris Lee, Chief Marketing Officer, National Gallery Singapore (PHL)
Donna McColm, Acting Assistant Director, Curatorial and Audience Engagement, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne (AU)
Kristin Prestegaard, Chief Engagement Officer, Minneapolis Institute of Art (U.S.)
Adam Rozan, Director of Programs and Audience Development, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (U.S.)

The talk, Embracing the Relationship, Museums and Audiences, will be led by the International Audience Engagement (IAE) Network Steering Group. Covering topics around developing and measuring audience engagement the IAE Steering Group will discuss the new 2020-21 guidelines; with a particular focus on wellness in museums.

14:00 – 15:30

WORKSHOP
Museums and Recovery: Empathy, Interaction and Co-creation in a time of profound change
with Dr Tom Fleming, Director, Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy, Expert on Creative Economy, Cultural and Arts Policy (UK)

Museums have always been vital hubs for engagement, education and inspiration. The Covid-19 crisis has brought into focus the ways museums give meaning and enhance our wellbeing, as well as how they anchor communities and contribute to inclusive growth. As we hopefully emerge from the crisis, museums will help us to rebuild trust, re-engage with our communities, and shape fresh perspectives in terms of what we value and how we live our lives. This will be a sensitive and challenging process, where museums will need to show empathy, to listen and learn. But it can also be a process of optimism, an opportunity to create a new type of museum which can help us to rebuild. This workshop will explore how museums are playing a role in recovery and explore new pathways for engagement, partnership and strategic development. It will draw on participants’ experiences of challenges and new opportunities.

16:00 – 17:00

MASTERCLASS
Refresh your Collection Data. New Media – New Content Needs
with Thalia Tsalkitzi, Department Manager, Solutions in Culture, Unisystems S.A. (GR)

In this masterclass, we will learn how to implement a data strategy on the current content of collections in order to support the new media and apps needs. Participants will explore cases and tools to preserve and reuse object-related content in a cost-effective way. This workshop will emphasize in the management of the collection data that mostly exist outside the traditional collection management system of the museum.