ICOM Exhibitions, a community of museum leaders and content producers, has opened registrations for the 2024 International Committee for Exhibition Exchange (ICEE) annual conference.
This year’s event, Momentum: Exhibitions and Memory, will take place from 29 September to 2 October at the Estonian National Museum in Tartu, Estonia. It will be produced in collaboration with the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience and ICOM-Estonia.
For more information and to register, please click here.
Shaping & reflecting memory
The event will bring together 150 museum professionals from across the world to investigate the intersections of exhibitions and memory. It will include a full programme of events and celebrations, keynotes, workshops, museum visits, and the much-awaited Exhibition Marketplace.
It will examine three central themes, including memory and the future of museums, how exhibitions shape memory, and exhibitions, memories, and Indigenous communities.
Each day will focus on one theme and open with a moderated keynote conversation that promises to engage conference attendees by asking big questions, challenging preconceptions, and encouraging feedback and engagement.
Keynote conversations will include:
- Lebogang Marishane, Constitution Hill, South Africa in conversation with Amina Krvavac, War Childhood Museum, Bosnia and Herzegovina, moderated by Hillary Spencer from ICOM Exhibitions, US. This discussion will focus on how exhibitions may inspire young people to explore history and create a more equitable future.
- Miles Greenwood, International Slavery Museum, UK, and Olena Honcharuk, Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre, Ukraine, moderated by Linda Norris, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. They will examine how museums confront perspectives shaped by colonisation, racism, and other cultural influences.
- Chris Newell, Akomawt Educational Initiative, US, and Taina Máret Pieski, Sámi Museum Siida, Finland, moderated by Margaret Middleton, independent consultant, UK. The discussion will explore how Indigenous museum leaders are redefining exhibition techniques to reflect Indigenous memories and contemporary experiences.
Highlights of the workshop programme include:
- Future Perfect Museum. This session with Hillary Spencer, ICOM Exhibitions and Maggie Greyson, Futures Present, will help attendees visualise a Future Perfect Museum and share cutting-edge advocacy and disruption techniques to help museum professionals campaign for bold new narratives.
- Creating Dialogic Exhibitions. Linda Norris, International Coalition for Sites of Conscience will lead a session that equips participants with actionable strategies to create exhibitions that inspire visitors to think about and create more equitable futures for all.
- Nightscapes: Exploring Urban Memory. Held in conjunction with the Estonian National Museum’s exhibition Who Claims the Night?, this session with the exhibition’s head curator, Karin Leivategija, will explore innovative approaches to representing night-time landscapes in museum environments.
- Advancing Digital Innovation in Memory. Dr Kate Marrison and Dr Victoria Grace Walden, from Landecker Digital Memory Lab, at University of Sussex, UK, will review established guidance to support digital innovation in Holocaust museums, memorial sites, libraries, and archives, and invite suggestions to advance these recommendations.
- Essentials of Traveling Exhibitions: From Concept to Execution. Julie Leclair, ICOM Exhibitions and Canadian Museum of History, Canada and Amanda Mayne, ICOM Exhibitions and The British Museum, UK, will share their insights into managing touring exhibitions. The session will cover subject selection, vendor agreements, logistics, and much more.
- Sustainable Exhibitions. Elise Foster Vander Elst, head of exhibitions and environmental impact lead, Design Museum, UK, and Lorraine Finch, chair of the Institute of Conservation’s Sustainability Network, UK, will share ways to reduce the environmental impact of exhibitions.
- Exploring Playful Engagement. Ed Rodley, The Experience Alchemists, US, will explore playful engagement in cultural settings with practical guidance around four key concepts: sensory immersion, emotional evocation, narrative transportation, and playful participation.
The 2024 ICEE annual conference promises to provide inspiring insights into museums’ growing role in shaping and reflecting collective memory.
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