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Report on the first edition of the ICOM Prize for Sustainable Development Practice in Museums: 130 projects received from 58 countries. The speaker highlighted the applications in the Planet category and offered reflections on what this inaugural edition reveals about the museum sector’s concrete commitment to environmental issues.
The MuseumWeek community gathered around Jonathan Talmi, independent AI engineer and creator of The Living Museum — an experimental platform enabling search and conversation with over 1.2 million artifacts from the British Museum’s digital collection via generative AI. The conversation covered technology, data from thousands of interactions, controversy sparked in the GLAM sector, and the boundaries AI should not cross in the museum world.
Academics and practitioners gathered to explore the role of museums and heritage sites as dynamic spaces for intercultural dialogue, in a world that is both more connected and more polarized. UNESCO and the Royal Commission for AlUla presented the Live Museum model, a transferable tool mobilizing heritage as a driver of dialogue among visitors. UNESCO’s upcoming guide on intercultural dialogue for museums and heritage sites was announced there.
Review of the project’s history, from its inception to its official launch at the MONDIACULT 2025 conference in Barcelona. The webinar highlighted the first documented success case — cultural objects submitted by Romania and recovered by Dutch authorities — and presented the new Spanish version of the platform. A use case of AI serving the digitization of stolen objects was also detailed.
Museums for Repair: Recontextualizing Afro-Brazilian Sacred Heritage How can museums restore the dignity of historically silenced and criminalized objects? This webinar explores the recontextualization of Afro-Brazilian collections, particularly through the emblematic case of the Nosso Sagrado Collection — religious goods confiscated by the police and now finding space on the walls of institutions such as the Museum of the Republic. Focusing on curatorial justice and heritage memory, we will discuss how museums and researchers work to recover narratives, preserve traditional knowledge, and build spaces of reconciliation through culture. An essential conversation for museum professionals, curators, and educators interested in colonial archaeology, collection restitution, and musealization of the sacred. Participants: Vinícius Zacarias — Professor of Museology (UNIRIO), specialist in Black heritage and Afro-American performance Marco Antonio Teobaldo — Museologist and curator, founder of the Brazilian Network of Terreiro Museology (Remuste) Domi Valansi — MuseumWeek Brazil / ArtRio Marcos Lima Moreira — MuseumWeek Brazil / Salesian Work Museum Part of the MuseumWeek 2026 program — Theme: "Intelligences, Museums, Futures"
Three-hour webinar organized as part of UNESCO’s Heritage for Peace program, bringing together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners around a dual reality: how museums can respond to emerging digital threats — cyberattacks on inventories, deepfakes, political instrumentalization of art — while strengthening their role as actors of social cohesion and peace. Testimonies from Ukraine, Iran, Syria, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
Keynote dedicated to ICOM’s experience in the ANCHISE project, a European initiative focused on developing practical and reproducible technological tools for the protection of cultural heritage. The speaker shared lessons learned from this project, at the intersection of technology and heritage safeguarding.
Extension in live conversation of the in-depth interview with Mohamed Zoghlami published in MuseumWeek Magazine. The discussions focused on the plurality of “intelligences” in the edition’s theme, on the African Heroes game developed by Netinfo with UNESCO, on the biases of large language models when addressing the African continent, on digital restitution via the metaverse as a tool for cultural justice, and on the figure of the ideal African museum in ten years.
Ai Lin, director of the Deji Art Museum in China, shares her field experience: the AI installation presented in Samarkand, the design and deployment process, obstacles encountered, and what she would do differently today. She also presents her vision of the museum in ten years and the choices the museum profession must now collectively assume.
First window opened on the UNESCO Virtual Science Museum, launched in December 2025. This free, multilingual digital platform, co-created with scientific institutions worldwide as part of the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (2024-2033), was presented to the MuseumWeek audience through a live guided tour of one of its exhibitions.
Presentation of preparatory work for UNESCO’s future guidelines on the protection and enhancement of underwater cultural heritage in museums. Speakers explored the evolving role of museums in safeguarding and interpreting this heritage, based on the 2001 Convention and concrete Swedish and American cases.
Presentation of UNESCO's tools and guidelines to strengthen the protection of museums and their collections in the digital environment. Culture Sector specialists discussed the use of artificial intelligence and virtual reality for risk management, emergency response, and damage assessment. A testimony from Ukraine illustrated the concrete challenges of heritage protection in conflict zones, and a community project for digital documentation of Afghan movable heritage using AI was presented.
Informal meeting at UNESCO between students from the Resilient Society program of the NYU Center for the Study of Antisemitism, visiting Paris during MuseumWeek, and two practitioners for whom culture and heritage are tools for understanding and combating extremism. Open and conversational format.
Thirteenth edition, dedicated to artificial intelligence — with an explicit stance: to question it rather than celebrate it. What does AI really do in museums, for their audiences, their professions, their mission? Eleven highlights online — six webinars with UNESCO, two keynotes with ICOM, three events produced by C4C, speakers from over twenty countries — open this space of doubt, even allowing critical voices on contested projects like the British Museum’s “The Living Museum.” The edition is based on the Museums & AI survey conducted in fall 2025 with 180 respondents in 35 countries: 46% of institutions surveyed use AI, and 11% do not know if it is the case in their institution — a blind spot that says much about uses spreading without framework or visibility for leadership. Where AI is adopted, it primarily serves audiences: accessibility and outreach. The 2026 ranking confirms, for the third consecutive year, the Regimiento de Granaderos a Caballo (Argentina) in first place, ahead of Museo Soumaya and Museo La Rodadora, both Mexican.
Original editorial program of the MuseumWeek Magazine for the 2026 edition: a series of written interviews giving voice to museum directors, researchers, artists, and international experts on what artificial intelligence, cultural sovereignty, memory, and innovation bring to the contemporary museum — a space for reflection distinct from the media time of the week's webinars. Published in French and English (bilingual for French-speaking speakers), the series includes eleven publications featuring the voices of nine personalities from six countries, including Karalyn Monteil (UNESCO), Sabrina Moura (Louvre Abu Dhabi), Ai Lin (Deji Art Museum, China), Mohamed Zoghlami (Africa Metaverse Museum), Agnès Callu (EHESS/CNRS, Grand Palais RMN Chair), Andrés Duprat (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Argentina), Yannick Lintz (Guimet Museum), and Jonathan Talmi (creator of The Living Museum).
International conference "The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Museums," organized on November 1, 2025, as an official side event of the 43rd session of the UNESCO General Conference, in Samarkand (Uzbekistan). It is co-organized by UNESCO, the Art and Culture Development Foundation (ACDF) under the authority of the Uzbek Ministry of Culture, the French Ministry of Culture, and the National Museum of Asian Arts – Guimet. Culture For Causes Network participates twice: Benjamin Benita, head of special programs, moderates panel III "AI in Museums Today," then speaks as a panelist in panel IV "AI in Museums of Tomorrow," moderated by Jamel Oubechou. The discussions focus on the ethical, technological, and creative dimensions of AI in the cultural field, involving museum directors, AI experts, and international institutions.
Museums as key custodians of underwater cultural heritage: Innovative approaches, best practices and accessibility As part of MuseumWeek and International Oceans Day, UNESCO invites you to a Round Table bringing together museum professionals and underwater cultural archaeologists. This event will explore good practices in maritime and underwater cultural heritage-based museums and pioneering paradigms in valuing and promoting the importance of safeguarding underwater cultural heritage, in proximity with local communities. The Round Table will be conducted in English and French.
Calling all young professionals to join us for Sarmaya Social, a casual networking event on June 6, as part of Museum Week 2025. Curated by the Sarmaya team, this event is open to all who work in museums, libraries, galleries, and archives and offers an informal space to connect with peers in the field. Drop by anytime between 6:30 and 8 PM — expect light refreshments, fun icebreakers, and plenty of opportunities to share ideas, talk about your work, or simply unwind with others who understand the cultural sector. Come as you are — curious, chatty, or just ready to listen. Open only to GLAM (museum, library, archive, and gallery) professionals.
Discuss 'Togetherness: The Future of GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) in Rapidly Changing Communities' with fellow enthusiasts on Thursday, June 5, at 5 PM (UTC 0). Register now as a panelist/speaker or attendee/participant and be part of this virtual conversation! Send a message with your email address or join our Instagram channel to receive the link. Language: English (CC available) Who can join? All are welcome! Join us for a casual networking/community event as part of celebrating International Museum Day and MuseumWeek. Participation Certificates: Yes, digital participation certificates will be provided. This event is supported by MuseumWeek, Learner Centered Strategies, and Es Corta La Brocha Cover Image Inset: Himalaya (2025), © SCHG
🏛 HUMAN REMAINS, HERITAGE AND ETHICS: What are the challenges for museum professionals? In French, English, and Spanish 📅 About the meeting: While the law passed in France on December 26, 2023, concerning the restitution of human remains of foreign individuals deceased after 1500 belonging to public collections, has recently enabled the return of 3 Sakalava skulls to Madagascar, we felt it was important to revisit this subject, which presents certain legal complexity coupled with strong ethical issues. The presence of human remains in the collections under our care entails our responsibility as museum professionals, in different fields of intervention, from documentation to public presentation, including conservation-restoration. It requires us to rethink the entire traditional heritage chain and to reconsider the meaning and ethics of ‘conservation,’ ‘study,’ ‘restoration,’ and ‘exhibition.’ On Tuesday, June 3, we will be questioning our professional practices to find the most respectful responses to the sensitivities of our audiences and the singularity of these ‘collections,’ whether identified or anonymous, if the term ‘collections’ can even be judiciously used Emilie Girard, chair of ICOM France, May 2025 📑 TERMS AND CONDITIONS - Tuesday, June 3, 2025 / 6 PM / 8:30 PM (CEST) - Public event, online and open to all - On digital platform only (Zoom) - Simultaneously translated into English, Spanish, and French with the support of the French Ministère de la Culture - Event organized in partnership with l’Ecole Du Louvre, Paris, as part of hashtag#MuseumWeek 2025 - Moderator: Aurélie Clemente Ruiz, director of the musée de l'Homme, Paris - Details of speakers soon
Edition dedicated to learning the commons — rethinking what connects us, between humans, machines, and nature. It gathers 17,500 unique authors in 80 countries, with 767,900 interactions and a potential reach of 11.9 billion. The Regimiento de Granaderos a Caballo (Argentina) remains at the top of the official ranking for the second consecutive year, ahead of Château de Chambord and Museo Soumaya in Mexico — confirming the shift started in 2022, and a complete reversal of the 2021 podium, where Chambord led ahead of Versailles and the Granaderos were third. The official artwork is an untitled canvas from the “Time Goes By” series by Franco-American artist Carole Jury.
Online discussion announced during the 2024 edition, on the occasion of the #ArtificialIntelligenceMW day, about the impact of artificial intelligence on cultural heritage and upcoming trends. Interested individuals were invited to register via a form.
Edition “online e in loco” — online and onsite — extending the “Nature and Culture” program by adding water, biodiversity, and artificial intelligence. It gathered 77,300 unique authors and 174,200 mentions, for 1.6 million interactions and 261.1 billion potential reach — by far the most measured edition. #BiodiversityMW clearly leads the day’s hashtags, ahead of #WaterMW. The Regimiento de Granaderos a Caballo ranks first among the most engaging institutions — with 64,739 interactions, more than three times the score of Chambord Castle, second — and kept this position the following year. The poster copy preserved in the Wix collection is the Italian version; it credits the original image to Hiroyuki Matsuishi (Japan, 2020), an artist also exhibited in “Reconciliation with the Living” in Paris and Florence.
The Irish ambassador of MuseumWeek spoke at the Education and Mediation Forum (E+O Forum) of the Irish Museums Association in Dublin, to present the campaign to Irish museums.
Fourth stop of the traveling exhibition “Reconciliation with the Living,” after Paris (2022), Florence and Lisbon (2023). Culture For Causes Network presents, in partnership with Polkadot, works from the exhibition at the Arts DAO Fest 2024, April 20-21 in Dubai — a festival dedicated to digital art and Web3 technologies, organized by Arts DAO, the largest Web3 community in the Middle East. The work shown is “Landscape with Carbon offset” by Michaël Zancan, present since the first Paris stop.
Side event at the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural and Artistic Education, co-organized by Culture For Causes Network with the Institute for Sustainable Development of EPLO and the International Theatre Institute. Two roundtables followed: “Sustainable Horizons: Charting a New Course for Cultural Institutions,” on the trajectory of cultural institutions, then “Mobilizing the Affects and the General Audience to Sustain Sustainability,” on engaging audiences in support of sustainability.
Editorial calendar published for February 2024: MuseumWeek offers institutions the events and hashtags to engage with, from the International Day of Women and Girls in Science to Darwin Day, including the anniversary of the opening of the Metropolitan Museum.
Training proposal for young and adult audiences by C3 to reflect on and provide tools around climate activism. Led by the Argentine environmental NGO Sustentabilidad Sin Fronteras.
National celebration for World Ocean Day through workshops, exhibitions, talks, and artistic-scientific actions led by Argentina’s Blue Schools program of C3.
Digital exhibition organized at Arroz Estúdios, Lisbon, June 7-8, 2023, during the Non-Fungible Conference. A special stop in the traveling exhibition: it does not include any previous works but presents six pieces by six new artists — BLΛC.ai, CharlesAI, DeltaSauce, DVK the artist, Georgina Hooper, and Ian (sumofprimes) — in partnership with the NFT Biennial and with the support of UNESCO.
Tenth edition, and first of the “Nature and Culture” program launched the same year: bringing humanity closer to itself and to the living through emotions and culture. It gathered 19,400 unique authors and 76,900 mentions, for 167,700 interactions and 27.1 billion potential reach — twice the reach of the previous year. Thirty countries appear in the ranking, led by France and the United States. It is also the first edition where artificial intelligence is part of the program: the hashtag #aiMW ranks second in volume behind #MuseumWeek itself, ahead of #HeritageMW and #Web3MW. The poster announces “Nature & Culture” and features “Field of dream,” an oil on canvas by Polina Kuznetsova, an artist born in Kharkiv — the same whose works appear in the exhibition “Reconciliation with the Living.”
Join us for '90 Seconds Museum Talk 2.0' where you'll share insights about your career, the hashtag, and how you celebrate Museum Week. We’re thrilled to have you on board!
One of MBQM’s actions to promote environmental care. The installation on the Riachuelo creates a floating ecosystem and raises awareness of the importance of water care
An innovative, artistic, sustainable, and culturally accessible experience throughout the month of May.
“Reconciliation with the Living” at the Aria Art Gallery in Florence, April 26-30, 2023, on the occasion of Art For Tomorrow — an event by the Democracy and Culture Foundation bringing together decision-makers and cultural figures. This is the most extensive stop of the tour: eighteen works by ten artists, the Paris core augmented by Paweł Grzelak and Matthew Plummer-Fernández.
Live session on Facebook, in English, hosted by Katy Menne, #MuseumWeekUSA ambassador, to answer institutions’ questions and help them prepare their participation in the 2023 edition.
"Online Exhibition International Museum Day"
Online extension of the exhibition “Reconciliation with the Living” held at the UNESCO House on November 25 and 26, 2022: a MuseumWeek × Verse gallery brings together the selected works, whose acquisition funds the artists and the following actions in support of committed digital art for the environment. Featured artists: Zancan, Entangled Others, Sofia Crespo, Phaust, Paweł Grzelak, and Geoffrey Pugen.
Roundtable organized on November 26, 2022, at the UNESCO headquarters, on the occasion of "Reconciliation with the Living." Blockchain technology is regularly criticized for its environmental footprint, and NFTs along with it; the debate often stops at preconceived ideas. Four sector actors came to untangle the real impact that NFTs can have on the environmental cause. Designed by Benjamin Benita and Matthieu Chéreau, with the support of Unique Network and Polkadot.
Original version of “Reconciliation with the Living,” presented at UNESCO headquarters on November 25 and 26, 2022, during the University of the Earth. Eleven works by nine artists are exhibited in situ — including Refik Anadol, Michaël Zancan, Nikolina Kovalenko, Hiroyuki Matsuishi, and Polina Kuznetsova — and a virtual gallery extends the installation into the dematerialized space. This is the cornerstone of the “Nature and Culture” program and the beginning of a traveling exhibition that will go to Florence, Lisbon, and then Dubai.
Culture For Causes Network confirmed its presence at the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies MONDIACULT 2022, represented by Mr. Edson Armando, museum director in Puebla.
Seventh and final talk of the series, Sunday morning, dedicated to dance in artworks — the card features Degas' dancers.
Short film broadcast for the #danceMW day: Jeanne Morel dances on the rooftops of Paris at dusk. A film by Jeanne Morel and Paul Marlier, images by Alexandre Magnan, 3D production by Paul Marlier.
Starting from the exhibition that exists only within the Minecraft: Educational Edition platform, we will visit the museum, its Sculpture Garden, and various works from its collection within the game platform.
Sixth meeting of the series, and the only written one: an article published in the Bonheur des arts gazette rather than a live broadcast. The poster reprises “L’atelier de Bazille.”
Fifth talk: a round of GeoGuessr — the game of locating a place in the world from a street view — led with the scientific streamers collective PogScience, under the hashtag dedicated to the environment.
Instagram live with artist Nikolina Kovalenko for the #EnvironmentMW day of the 2022 edition, dedicated to climate change.
Live break on Facebook from the NC Maritime Museum at Southport, in southeastern North Carolina: river traffic in the background and audience questions on maritime history, culture, and the region’s community, with Katy Menne, ambassador #MuseumWeekUSA.
Fourth talk of the series, and the only one held on the @MuseumWeek account itself, in a Twitter Space. It falls under the hashtag #sexualitéMW, which alone accounted for 21% of the exchanges in the 2022 edition. The poster reprises Manet’s Olympia.
Debate on animal sexuality organized by the Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona for the #SexualityMW day of the 2022 edition — the hashtag alone will account for 21% of the week's exchanges.
Third of seven daily talks held by Sabine Pasdelou during the 2022 edition: a live virtual exhibition tour on Sabine Pasdelou’s Twitch channel. The card features Monet’s poppies.
How about enjoying with us a live teaser of the opera "O Engenheiro," by Tim Rescala and still having a chat addressing topics such as equality, freedom, citizenship, Afro-Brazilian History?
Live Instagram in English from Gaudí’s Casa Batlló, a UNESCO World Heritage site, to discover the new immersive experience offered to visitors. Conversation led by Benjamin Benita with Amilcar Vargas, World Heritage Manager of Casa Batlló, and Marta Maria Peinador, MuseumWeek community host in Spain.
Live Instagram from Laurence de Valmy’s studio in San Diego, June 14 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time — 7:00 PM in France. The French artist revisits art history through an anachronism: she reenacts past social networks by reconstructing Instagram or TikTok posts that Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, or Elaine de Kooning might have written. She also produces phygital works, bridging canvas and digital. Supported by MuseumWeek since 2019, represented by galleries in New York, London, and France, member of Artcan.
Filmed interview on the rooftops of Paris with dancer and choreographer Jeanne Morel, about her work with digital artist and architect Paul Marlier — at the crossroads of technology, dance, philosophy, and nature, conducted with CNES, UNESCO, and the European Space Agency. Interview led by Benjamin Benita, broadcast simultaneously on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook for the #CreatorsMW day.
Second talk of the daily series, broadcast early morning on Twitch — an unusual time for a cultural event, embraced as such.
Presentation of the digital mapping of the collection of the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende.
First of seven daily talks given by Sabine Pasdelou during the 2022 edition. How does a museum manage live streaming? The topic is discussed with Alexandre Moittié, on the technical side.
Opening roundtable of MuseumWeek in Brazil, at the Museu Câmara Cascudo de Natal, broadcast on YouTube. The debate brings together Renata Tupinambá (indigenous peoples), Silvia Bassi (The Sift), Catarina Segatto (CETIC/Nic.br), Gregório Sanches (MAM-SP), and Julia Michaels (FullCircle). Benjamin Benita opens the session with a recorded speech in French and Portuguese, setting the theme of the year — “innovation for culture and social impact” — and reminding that Brazil ranks every year among the top ten participating countries.
Presentation of “Overview,” a generative work projected under a dome, created by Paul Marlier and Jeanne Morel. The artists work in zero gravity with CNES and ESA, linking real-time 3D to biometric data. Artistic direction by Paul Marlier and Jeanne Morel, real-time 3D creation by Paul Marlier, dance by Jeanne Morel, video by Alexandre Magnan, music by Julien Villa (“Away”). Produced by INO Studio and Art In Space, sponsored by ESA and astronaut Jean-François Clervoy.
Live Instagram conversation between Michael Wiesenhofer from the Belvedere Vienna and Anthony Trabaud from Crypto4Arts, about the role NFTs have already taken in museums.
From June 13 to 19, MuseumWeek will take place and the Museu do Diamante will participate in this global conversation about culture, society, and innovation on social networks.
With a few clicks you can visit the museum located inside the city's oldest hospital building in intermittent operation, opened in 1880 and still functioning today.
We'd like to invite you to a short video series "90 seconds Museum Talk." You'll share insights about your career, the hashtag, and how you celebrate Museum Week. We are very excited, so join us!
Live session from June 13, 2022, dedicated to Louvre Lens Valley, a cultural business incubator affiliated with Louvre-Lens, with its director Margherita Balzerani.
Open edition in the context of the invasion of Ukraine, which the team addresses head-on in its communications to participants. Under the theme of social impact innovation, it brings together 18,300 unique authors, 103,000 mentions, 634,400 interactions, and 13.9 billion potential reach. Two shifts mark it. The first is geographic: Latin America enters the global ranking strongly — Argentina moves up to 3rd (6th the previous year), Mexico 4th, Brazil 6th (9th), Chile 7th. The second is technical, and even more brutal: participation on Twitter drops from 98.6% in 2021 to 55.4%, benefiting Instagram which captures 43.2%. Finally, the hashtag #sexualityMW alone accounts for 21% of exchanges — a theme the team notes "would have been impossible to propose a few years earlier." Chambord Castle leads the most engaging institutions, ahead of the Pompeii Archaeological Park and the Japanese Yamatane Museum.
The St. Petersburg Northern Sinfonia Orchestra led by Fabio Mastrangelo will perform Beethoven’s Symphony No.5, Overture to Mozart’s opera “Die Entführung aus dem Serail,” Grieg’s Symphony No.1.
Explore the illustrious history of overlooked plants. Justin Fornal will identify weeds we often see growing along modern highways that were once used in Native American ceremonial rituals.
We often do not think about what the paints are made of. What components are they made from? And how to ensure that the paint is preserved for many years. Even centuries!
Miss Emily Scott will share some insights about her career and her work in the museum world. We are very excited, so stay tuned!
Deering Estate in partnership with the MIAMI short FILM FESTIVAL (MIAMIsFF) presents Shorts Under the Stars: Amplifying Black Stories, in celebration of Juneteenth.
Live discussion on Instagram between @avnivaria, from the Museums Amdavad collective, and the MuseumWeek team, on the theme of creativity.
And if you could send just one word to future generations, which one would you send?
JUNE 13, 2021, 9 AM IST Avani Varia will go live on Instagram with Shri Kalyan Joshi – a National Awardee Phad Painter from Bhilwada Rajasthan.
“Li Hongbo: Empathizing” is the artist’s third solo exhibition with Eli Klein gallery, showing 10 new sculptures utilizing the mediums of stainless steel, cast iron, and rebar.
On June 12, 2021, 5 PM IST Avani Varia will go live on Instagram with the Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum team: Sunanda Sudhakar & Priyanka Kundu
✨VIRTUAL MUSEUM NIGHT✨? Via our Facebook page. Live broadcast from Museo Casa del Mendrugo ? We hope you join us to discover more about this historic place.
The remarkable life of Nadezhda Plevitskaya, a Russian peasant girl who achieved fame as one of Tsar Nicholas II’s favorite singers and was later unmasked as one of Stalin’s secret agents
Rhanu, the mermaid is off on a new adventure. Join us on Saturday, June 12 from 10am to 4pm to celebrate the magic she brings to WMODA.
Art in the architecture of Portinari's house
Interview broadcast on the official Instagram account @MuseumWeek: Claudia Porto interviews Karina Israel, CEO of YDreams Global.
Claudia Porto interviews Karina Israel, CEO YDreams Global, June 11, 2021, 6PM CEST on Instagram @MuseumWeek
Join Director Karen T. Albert as she explores the importance of drawings in the creative process of artists such as Benny Andrews, Leonard Baskin, Jean Cocteau, Isaac Soyer, and Benjamin West.
Live Instagram with the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum (Madrid)
Create a caption for Portinari's photo.
Starting from Thursday, June 10, every Thursday evening at 6 p.m. there will be a short guided tour organized by the museum director.
An interactive exhibition dedicated to the translations and poetic works of Boris Zahoder
Instagram live with artist Sara Ouhaddou, in residence in the “Art Explora — Cité internationale des arts” program, in the #ArtExploraTalks series. Moderated by Laurence de Valmy.
Learn the fresco painting technique!
Interactive exhibition of rare film props from the «Lenfilm» film studio
Discussion with Karima Lazali and Marisa Fois. MEG Lobby. Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Instagram live with Mucem, the first winner of the 2020 European Art Explora Prize — Académie des beaux-arts, in the #ArtExploraTalks series led with the Art Explora foundation.
See here reinterpretations of the work carried out by children
Annette Morgan will share her experience creating a contemporary hanging based on Sutton Hoo.
Raise a hand if you visited a museum and were curious to know what's behind the doors?! Today we will sate your curiosity ...
This exhibition showcases the paintings of hyperrealist Nadine Robbins and landscape painter Bruce Muirhead, and the monumental drawings of Richard Masters.
Do you love Puppet Theater as much as we do? If so, our library invites you to a theatrical exhibition
Bouguereau’s L’art et la litterature is on view in the exhibition “The Muse.”
Live Instagram with Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro, artist, environmental engineer, and curator, in the #ArtExploraTalks series conducted with the Art Explora foundation during the 2021 edition. Moderated by Laurence de Valmy.
Quest for the exhibition of the historical museum of the times of 1977 and today. Differences need to be found.
“Secrets” were revealed during the recent restoration of the Casa de Portinari Museum.
LIVE Virtual Exhibition at Le360 Gallery of Paintings by Rebecca J. White
On June 7, 2021, 9 pm IST Avani Varia will go live on Instagram with Dr. Richa Sharma – Convener of the LEGAL HISTORY MUSEUM
Live interviews, discussions, and games to talk about art and culture on Twitch
Guided walk in ancient Rome, broadcast live on Twitter on the first day of the 2021 edition, with archaeologist Darius Arya.
Recital given from Saint Petersburg by opera singer Alan Starovoitov, accompanied on piano by Viktor Nikolaev, broadcast live on Twitter to open the 2021 edition. The recording was reposted the same day in two parts, then in full on YouTube.
Between June 7 and 13, the Diamond Museum is participating in the virtual event #MuseumWeek2021.
During MuseumWeek we will share on our social media platforms the most creative cultural heritage, bringing back the past and seeing it through different lenses to inspire our future
History of Candinho
Youth Library named after Arkady Gaidar is a historical, cultural, and architectural heritage site
Avani Varia curates Museum Week from Ahmedabad to represent museums and people.
Once upon a time, a decorative design that could never come true. Once upon a time, two paintings that were never displayed at Chamfered Corner Room. Today, the tale has a new end...
An online Madhubani Painting (a heritage Indian art) workshop for kids aged 7 to 12 to introduce them to the basics of Madhubani
Edition focused on the future of museums, whose poster announces seven hashtags "dedicated to creativity." It is the largest ever measured in number of participants: 27,744 unique authors, 109,700 hashtag mentions, 1.45 million interactions, and 1.4 billion potential reach, for 49 digital events recorded. The community is young and gender-balanced: half of the authors are between 25 and 34 years old, with a distribution of 50.4% women to 49.6% men. Italy largely dominates participation (29%), ahead of Spain and France. The Château de Chambord ranks first among the most engaging institutions, ahead of Versailles and the Regimiento de Granaderos a Caballo. The official agenda keeps the most detailed record of this edition: 47 events are listed.
Opening night of the 2021 edition, broadcast live on Facebook, with artist Kenneth Goldsmith and Philippe Méaille, president of Château de Montsoreau — Museum of Contemporary Art, which holds the largest collection of works by the Art & Language collective.
Wanrooij Gallery in Amsterdam presents a retrospective exhibition of Leon Keer from June 5 until August 28, 2021. The solo exhibition 'Forced Perspective' shows new paintings and installations
Explore the treasure trove of fired arts at WMODA on Saturday, June 5 from 10am - 4pm.
A challenge to inspire institutions that are part of the Cultural and Heritage Network of Entre Ríos Argentina (RECUPERAR) to fill the networks for 7 days, with 7 themes and 7 hashtags
Kenneth Goldsmith Exhibition
Free Q&A session in Portuguese, offered to museums, memory institutions, and Brazilian creative industry stakeholders to prepare their participation in the 2021 edition.
"The Artist as Poet" spans 10 decades between 1917 and 2017 and represents how language—specifically poetry—is used in contemporary art, while shedding light on Surrealism’s influence.
teamLab Reconnect is a new art and sauna exhibition by teamLab where visitors experience art in their finest mental state.
Webinar in Portuguese organized by MuseumWeek Brasil outside the campaign, dedicated to the strategies of Brazilian museums on social networks: presentation of quantitative and qualitative results of #MuseumWeek 2020 in Brazil, combined with those of the national TIC Cultura survey. Announced by Claudia Porto and confirmed at launch.
Visit to artist Françoise Pétrovitch’s studio broadcast live on Instagram for the #RevesMW day, the last day of the 2020 edition, initiated by Alexia Guggémos.
Live debate broadcast on Facebook for the #CulturaEnCuarentenaMW day, organized by the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos with MuseumWeek, featuring anthropologist Carla Pinochet Cobos (Universidad Alberto Hurtado) and Fernanda Martínez.
Second day of #MuseumWeek 2020, in full lockdown. The guideline, published by UNESCO: “Could you create your own version of a cultural work — a famous painting, for example — from home, using your objects and household members?” The hashtag is inspired by the #ArtInQuarantine challenge launched by the Getty Museum a few weeks earlier, as recalled by the Guggenheim when relaying the call. Museums worldwide reenact works from their collections from the homes of their teams and audiences: the Palazzo Reale in Naples, the Musei Reali in Turin, the National Gallery in London, the Guggenheim, the Granaderos a Caballo Museum in Buenos Aires — which adapts the hashtag in Spanish, #CulturaEnCuarentenaMW. The most engaging post of the entire 2020 edition, across all theme days, is actually from this hashtag: the Château de Versailles account published a photo of a dog dressed as Louis XIV, facing the king’s portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud — 19,900 likes and 479 comments on Instagram.
Seven daily musical performances at 5:30 PM, inspired by the locations and themes of the edition, by local and national artists not named in the source.
Seven meetings on Facebook Live, one per day at 11 AM, bringing together national museum communication specialists in dialogue with the Musei Civici.
Seven daily videoconferences at 5 p.m. on Facebook and YouTube, each hosted by a voice from the network: Chiara Pelliciari (Museo del Tricolore), Maria Montanari (Galleria Parmeggiani and Museo della Ghiara), Chiara Bombardieri (Museum of the History of Psychiatry), Linda Gualdi (Il Mauriziano), Giada Pellegrini (historical-scientific collections), Riccardo Campanini (C-Lab), and Alessandro Gazzotti (Palazzo dei Musei).
Pandemic edition. “Togetherness” had been chosen as the theme at the start of the year; the health crisis gave it a whole new meaning. While nearly half of humanity was confined, the team decided to keep the dates and rewrite the seven hashtags to reflect the situation — from healthcare workers (#heroesMW) to artworks replayed from the living room (#CultureInQuarantineMW), including museum memories (#MuseumMomentsMW) and dreams (#dreamsMW). They were translated into Croatian, Chinese, Spanish, French, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian. Europa Nostra joined UNESCO among the supporters; the agencies mtArt, Buffer, and Talkwalker provided the tools. The report measured by Talkwalker counted 65,196 participants (+4.9% over 2019), 217,100 hashtag mentions (+18%), 2.4 million interactions (+364%), and 24.4 billion potential reach (+234%) — the strongest growth in the history of the operation, led by Europe (Italy 19.9%, Spain 17.6%, France 16.8%, United States 11.3%, United Kingdom 8.5%). Among the most engaging institutions: Château de Chambord, Château de Versailles, Auschwitz Memorial, Pompeii Archaeological Park, and the Granaderos a Caballo de Buenos Aires — a collection mixing, in the midst of the pandemic, playful heritage and serious memory. 715 citations in online media were recorded, from Euronews to Paris Match. This was the edition where MuseumWeek stopped being a supplement to museum life to become, for a few days, the only open place.
Renewal, in the midst of the pandemic, of the #GuestMW campaign launched in 2016: artists broadcast live from their homes on Instagram, initiated by curator Alexia Guggémos. Musician Ibrahim Maalouf, already a guest of #GuestMW at the Centre Pompidou in 2016, participates remotely; classical guitarist Liat Cohen performs from her home in Ramat HaSharon, Israel; photographer Alexandre Kukonin and visual artist Françoise Pétrovitch complete the program — the latter during a live studio visit on May 17, under the hashtag #RevesMW.
Third session, in Spanish, dedicated to the hashtags of the 2020 edition. The Museu Son Fornés and the Museu Ciutat de Fraga participated; the recording was published the next day.
Second Q&A session on the hashtags of the 2020 edition, recorded with participants' consent and rebroadcast the next day on MuseumWeek's YouTube channel.
Live session on the MuseumWeek Instagram account dedicated to the participation of Indian museums in the 2020 edition, with Ruta Waghmare for the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum of Bombay and the @arthysteriaa account for the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum of Jaipur, moderated by Medhavi Gandhi.
First of three Q&A sessions offered before the 2020 edition to explain the seven daily hashtags and support institutions in their preparation. Announced in English, Spanish, and Portuguese for the same time slot. The Bata Shoe Museum and several Spanish museums confirmed their participation the following day.
International competition awarding an original work by Jennifer Abessira, organized as part of the partnership between MT Art Agency and MuseumWeek, under the hashtag #InvestInArtistsMW. Announced by MuseumWeek magazine during the 2020 edition.
Twenty-second edition of Quartier Art Drouot, on the theme “Nature seen by artists”: eighteen galleries in the 9th arrondissement exhibit, from October 3 to 19, 2019, one or more works on this theme, each alongside a photograph by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The GoodPlanet Foundation, which he chairs, is associated with the route — a donation box is installed in each gallery. MuseumWeek is a partner of the event and covers it on its accounts throughout its duration. On the evening of the opening, October 3, MuseumWeek sits on the jury alongside the GoodPlanet Foundation: the prize is awarded to “He never speaks,” presented by Gallery AB.
The CULTURA public conference center organized, as part of #MuseumWeek and the #WomenInCulture movement, a public talk at the Academy of Fine Arts Museum. The discussion, led by artists and art critics, was structured in three parts — the woman curator, the woman artist, the woman researcher — to shed light on the cultural life of St. Petersburg at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, current trends, and feminism in contemporary Russian art. 80 attendees, free admission.
Visit of the exhibition “History of British Trailblazers” followed by a roundtable bringing together Anna Fox and Karen Knorr, photography professors, chaired by Jean Wainwright, professor of contemporary art and photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham.
Meeting with writer Elena Chizhova, winner of the 2009 Russian Booker Prize, presenting her latest book, “A City Written from Memory.”
Conference dedicated to the women of al-Andalus.
Art exhibition.
Visitors exchange toys and stories related to the museum's current exhibition.
Live video of the Florence Lazar exhibition, “You think the earth is a dead thing…”
For the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, the Rivau hosted three events during MuseumWeek: a contemporary art exhibition featuring twenty women artists, a conference, and a Renaissance ball. The whole was part of the exceptional programming of the Loire Valley.
Russian photographer Uldus Bakhtiozina took the audience on a live video tour of the Frida Kahlo exhibition at the Fabergé Museum. She shares her interpretation of the Mexican feminist icon and her favorite works, emphasizing violence, suffering, and death as central themes of the painter, and explains how her own perspective has evolved over the years.
Screening of Jero Yun’s film, followed by a conversation with Zhou Wanjing.
Plastic recycling workshop led by Pati Homs.
Koko-Jean Davis concert, Saturday evening.
Exhibition “Plastic,” designed and curated by eco-designer Núria Vila.
Discussion with Marian Romero.
As part of the 'Semana de Museus,' the National Museum of the Republic hosted the Women's Quintet of the National Theater Symphony Orchestra for a free concert in the main exhibition hall. The all-female string quintet performed a program dedicated to the women present in the audience.
Presentation of MuseumWeek and the #WomenInCulture movement during the roundtable “Real Space × Virtual Space.” Fifty graduate students — architecture, visual arts, and other disciplines — attended.
On the occasion of the 6th edition of MuseumWeek, the Musée des Civilisations de Côte d’Ivoire launched, in collaboration with INSAAC, its first Open Days dedicated to women, on the theme “Women in Culture: Past, Present, and Future.” More than 200 women participated, in the presence of the Ambassador of Spain and representatives from the Ministries of Culture, Women, and Handicrafts. The museum announced its intention to include prominent female figures of the country in its collections.
Photo contest organized as part of the exhibition dedicated to photographer Raymond Depardon.
Guqin concert (seven-string Chinese zither) attended by 30 women journalists, 50 women from all backgrounds, and 120 spectators.
Musical evening during the Bettina Samson exhibition, which presented ten years of creation: glass sculptures and ceramics, photographic prints, paintings on engraved glass, and installations.
"Força Feminina do Samba": a lively conversation between generations from the Mangueira territory, one of the birthplaces of samba in Rio. The singer Geisa Ketti — cultural advisor to the State and daughter of Zé Ketti, a major singer and composer of the genre — exchanged with students from the Uruguai municipal school.
Spotlight on contemporary female singers performing the repertoire of Yvette Guilbert, a figure of the Belle Époque.
The Matiss Club gallery joined MuseumWeek with a relief printmaking workshop dedicated to women in art, organized during the exhibition of Ira Vasilyeva's oil paintings. The artist taught linocut creation: lithographic press, printing form making, and color work.
Screening of the documentary “Out of Plastic” by Line Hadsbjerg.
"Behind the Scenes of Our Archives": workshop simulating the archiving of personal scientific documents donated to the museum, intended for a general audience. Thirty participants were expected; the museum welcomed fifty-five.
Free guided tour with museologist Wilton Guerra, discovering the secrets of the building housing the museum — the bathroom, the steward’s office, the technical reserve — and the personalities it hosted, including Prince Philip.
Roundtable dedicated to the pioneers of medical history in the State of Paraná. Marta Savi, historian and professor at the Federal University of Paraná, and Simone Peruzzo, president of the Regional Council of Nurses of Paraná, discussed both historical facts and the daily challenges faced today by women in the sector.
Tribute by artist Domenico Barra to Elvira Coda Notari (Salerno, 1875 — 1946), the first and most prolific Italian female filmmaker: more than sixty feature films and a hundred shorts and documentaries. Recognized as the first female filmmaker, she drew most of her inspiration from Naples.
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige at the 2019 Venice Art Biennale “May You Live in Interesting Times,” at the V-A-C Foundation, Palazzo delle Zattere, represented by Fabienne Leclerc from the In Situ gallery.
Exhibition and conversation evening organized by MuseumWeek, Le Petit Journal New York, Homeis, and the Michele Mariaud gallery, which brought together more than fifty people. Rachel Scharly, editor of Le Petit Journal New York and #WomenInCulture ambassador, interviewed Michele Mariaud and Laurence de Valmy there.
Live conversation celebrating the #WomenInCulture movement with artist and technologist Drue Kataoka, broadcast on Instagram.
Performance by Adelaide Damoah at the National Museum of Immigration History, May 13, 2019, for the launch of the edition and the #WomenInCulture program. The British-Ghanaian artist uses her own body as a printing tool, a practice that directly responds to Yves Klein’s anthropometries by reversing the terms: the body is no longer the brush of another, it is the artist’s own.
Launch of MuseumWeek and the #WomenInCulture movement in the presence of Minister Marlène Schiappa. The visit to the exhibition “Paris-Londres” was followed by an intervention from the minister and the MuseumWeek teams.
Tour led by Ellie Miles, documentary curator at the London Transport Museum, dedicated to the journeys of women in London transport, on the first day of the 2019 edition focused on #WomenInCulture.
Informal conversation over a drink, entirely dedicated to MuseumWeek: its origins, objectives, and what it brings to participating institutions. The second "Drinking about Museums" in the city — renamed "Bebemus" in Portuguese — and the tenth nationwide in five years. About twenty museum professionals, students, and teachers gathered.
The MAR deployed an extensive program, both online and offline, throughout MuseumWeek: publications across all the museum’s networks, guided tours, debates, and workshops around the exhibition “Women in the MAR Collection.” The entire program was linked to the “Semana de Museus,” a national Brazilian event held annually around May 18.
Happening by Swiss artist Mauren Brodbeck: a collage of visual and digital stimulations exploring the gap between what we perceive as real and our fantasies.
Five female artists exhibit their works and discuss the relationship between women and culture, and the role of women in cultural creation, from their own artistic practice. Broadcast live.
A themed week: Monday dedicated to Ms. Orth as exhibition curator, Tuesday to behind the scenes of exhibition making, Wednesday to a treasure hunt around the paintings, Thursday to colorful textile patterns, Saturday to an InstaWalk in the fashion exhibition, Sunday to museum friends.
Street art performance by artist and skateboarder Leo Valls, as part of the Cultural Season in Bordeaux. Leo Valls creates skateboarding films highlighting the architecture of Bordeaux’s streets.
A week of screenings, exhibitions and meetings: documentary “The Urgency to Act” dedicated to choreographer Maguy Marin, opening of the photographic exhibition by Davide Cerullo “Faces of Scampia — The Righteous of Gomorra,” creation of a platform game, and meetings.
Photowalk: amateur photographers walk the same route together, each photographing what catches their attention — many unique perspectives on a shared experience.
Live artistic performance by Laurence de Valmy at the 7th edition of the Affordable Art Fair in Hong Kong, which brought together more than 115 local and international galleries.
About sixty female artists each painted a scarf, on a unique theme and story, in the traditional motifs of Madhubani painting.
One-day conference dedicated to women and museums.
From May 13 to 18, the Russian Museum invited its visitors to find as many works by female artists as possible in the permanent collections of the Mikhailovsky Palace and the Benois Wing, photograph them, and share them on social media. The top finder — 22 works found — won the catalog of a recent exhibition.
The Met’s annual rooftop garden commission is a highlight of the New York summer. “ParaPivot,” Alicja Kwade’s first solo exhibition at a New York institution, was on view there from April to October. A live event bringing together women artists was organized in partnership with Le Petit Journal.
Visitors to MoMA were invited to photograph and share on social media works by women artists from the collection.
Edition entirely dedicated to women in culture — past, present, and future — under the hashtag #WomenInCulture. It is the best documented edition on record: 61 physical events are listed, across four continents, from the first open house days dedicated to women at the Museum of Civilizations of Abidjan to the guqin concert at Sichuan Museum, including the performance by Adelaide Damoah at the Museum of Immigration History. It is also the edition with the largest consortium in the entire history of the operation: the CHANEL Foundation and The New York Times join UNESCO on the poster credits. The Talkwalker report measures 62,600 unique authors, 1.8 million interactions, and 8 billion potential reach, across 6,050 museums registered in 205 countries.
Lecture by Marian Alonso: what cultural institutions can do through heritage education on gender.
The Togolese artist Maëva Acolatsé led a “go parcours” in the city, broadcast live.
Exhibition of works by women artists: Pauline Guerrier, Aïcha Snoussi, Lyndi Sales, Esther Mahlangu, Nnenna Okore.
“Wax Stories — Stories of Wax Prints”: an exhibition designed by a team of women on a subject invented by women for women — wax fabric and the messages it carries.
Ekaterina Muromtseva, artist and resident of the Garage Studios, reflects on her creative and outreach practice: for her, today’s artist is not only a producer of works but a mediator between art and the public — and she explains what it means to “translate” the language of contemporary art for elderly people. She invited older female artists to present the works created with her at the Garage Studios.
Screening of an award-winning documentary dedicated to alpona, a traditional Bengali ritual art practiced mainly by women, followed by a discussion. Organized by Museum Culture Marketing, a private initiative dedicated to museum audiences and marketing, with special attention to India.
Concert by singer Angélique Kidjo at the Institut du monde arabe, shared as part of the #WomenInCulture movement.
Photo contest: from April 22 to May 10, participants sent the museum their best photo of the site via Facebook. Ten photos were selected and published in an album; page followers voted from May 13 to 17, and the three most popular photos were awarded.
A series of activities spread over several weeks: awareness seminars, walks, live performances, and social media campaigns to highlight the role of women in art, society, and Pakistani museums.
The multidisciplinary artist Judit Farrés presents “Pomelo,” a show for young audiences.
Edit-a-thon organized with Wikimedia France to enrich Wikipedia with pages dedicated to women artists, with one theme per day of the week.
Live video from the opening of Zolaykha Sherzad's photography and embroidery exhibition.
Two days of immersive workshop: students took on the roles of curators, guides, artists, librarians, conservators, communication officers, and photographers. Organized with The Heritage Lab and Vivek High School, as an offline adaptation of the #ProfessionsMW and #KidsMW themes.
Live broadcast on Periscope from the dome of the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid.
Second live from Rome of the day, presented as exclusive: 360° view of Rome from Torre Calandrelli, accompanied by archaeologist Darius Arya, for the day dedicated to cities.
First live broadcast of the 2018 edition, streamed on MuseumWeek's Periscope account: archaeologist Darius Arya opens the week from the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum, which that day inaugurated its online presence for #MuseumWeek and the #womenMW day.
Fifth edition, moved to April — the only schedule change in the history of the event, which will then take place in May and finally in June. It adds nature to the already established themes of heritage and women in culture, anticipating by five years the “Nature and Culture” program. The official report counts 5,001 participants in 120 countries, an increase of 11% in registrations and 26% in countries represented compared to 2017; Europe accounts for 53% of participation, ahead of North America (28%) and Asia (10%). The most represented countries are the United States (944), France (613), the United Kingdom (600), Italy (478), Canada (333), Spain (338), Russia (218), and Germany (199). This is the year the association submitted its application to the CHANEL Foundation, whose support begins with this edition and will continue in 2019. The poster bears the UNESCO logo, a partner since 2016. However, the exact measurement of the conversation is distorted by the abrupt restriction, in April 2018, of access to Instagram’s API following the Cambridge Analytica affair.
For the second year, #MuseumWeek dedicates its hashtag #WomenMW to women in art and culture, with the support of the CHANEL Foundation. The theme for Monday, April 23 invites institutions to highlight women from History, Art, Culture, or Science — “not women represented for their beauty, but women artists, women intellectuals, women workers.” On the #MuseumWeek website, the Women in Culture series publishes eleven new portraits of professionals in the sector — five in English, five in Chinese, one in French, fewer than planned due to Instagram API restrictions — including Hu Xinyun (China Academy of Art), Olga Kudinova, Marilia Bonas (Memorial da Resistência de São Paulo), and Mrinalini Venkateswaran (City Palace Museum of Jaipur). The CHANEL Foundation sets four measurable goals for the campaign, including a floor of 180,000 messages exchanged under #womenMW — a volume that Instagram API restrictions prevented from being measured. Two other goals are verified: 54% of people participating in the global conversation are women, and thirty-four press coverages are recorded.
Night of Museums organized nationally by the Lebanese Ministry of Culture, from 5:00 PM to 11:00 PM, relayed by MuseumWeek.
For the World Science Day for Peace and Development, the #MuseumWeek team calls on science centers and museums, research centers, and libraries to post under the hashtags #FactsAreFacts and #WorldScienceDay, “in response to the worrying post-truth climate we find ourselves in.” Hard sciences as well as social sciences. The operation also serves as a trial run for #ScienceWeek 2018.
The MuseumWeek team announces the launch of #ScienceWeek, a sister program dedicated to scientific institutions, with its own account @ScienceWeek_ and an open registration form. The program will materialize on November 10 with the #FactsAreFacts campaign, on the occasion of World Science Day.
Meeting of Instagrammers at the Palais de la Découverte on Saturday, June 24, 2017, under the dedicated hashtag #museumweek_pld. The tour included the planetarium and its giant moon, the aquarium, the large periodic table of elements — commented on by a Palais mediator —, the electrostatics room with plasma balls, the holograms, and the “Viral” exhibition, which invited the public to experience positive contagion. Posts circulated under #heritageMW and #WomenMW.
Instagrammers meeting in the spaces of the Opéra Comique during #MuseumWeek 2017, under the dedicated hashtag #museumweek_operacomique. Participants photograph the Italian-style auditorium, the painted dome, and the lounges; one of them plays a tune on the foyer piano. The meeting takes place on #musicMW day, Wednesday, June 21, and continues under #WomenMW. The hashtag report from June 20 to July 10, 2017, counts 37 posts, including 12 on June 21 alone, 12,266 likes, and 922 comments — an average of 331 likes per post.
The fourth edition of #MuseumWeek is dedicated — not devoted, as the official report points out — to all the women of the world: in addition to the seven daily hashtags, institutions are invited to publish throughout the week on the theme “Women and Culture” with the hashtag #WomenMW, presented in Chinese (#女性博物馆周#), Korean (#여성MW), and Japanese (#女性MW). A pre-campaign “Hack our logo” invites community managers of institutions to creatively alter the #MuseumWeek graphic identity in tribute to women. The result exceeds expectations: 577,815 messages exchanged around #WomenMW, representing 33% of the overall conversation of the edition — 20,932 posts, shared 548,297 times and commented on 8,586 times. Meanwhile, the #MuseumWeek website publishes a series of portraits of women in the cultural sector under the name Women in Culture: 18 in English, 8 in French, 7 in Chinese (for 17 people interviewed), and 2 in Russian. The emblem chosen for the campaign is Artemisia Gentileschi’s self-portrait as a lute player. The edition gathers 4,505 cultural institutions in 95 countries; more than 1.7 million messages are exchanged during June.
The Museum of the History of Computing located at EPFL celebrates its fifteenth anniversary on the first day of #MuseumWeek 2017. The edition coincides with a fundraising campaign to save its collections (#GoBolo).
Fourth edition, and first year of the Women In Culture program, under the hashtag #WomenMW — also in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. The official report counts 4,505 participants in 95 countries, a 28.5% increase in registrations compared to 2016; over 81,000 posts were exchanged, shared 1.6 million times, and commented on more than 43,000 times, for a total conversational volume of 1.7 million messages — up 161.5% year-on-year. #storiesMW had the highest engagement of the seven daily hashtags, despite being posted on a Thursday. The emblem of #WomenMW is Artemisia Gentileschi’s self-portrait as a lute player. This is also the year Culture For Causes Network was created, in April: from this edition onward, the operation is led by an association rather than an informal steering committee. Three Instagrammer meetups took place in Paris — at the Opéra Comique, the Palais de la Découverte, and the Philharmonie — each with its own hashtag.
Tutorial published on museum-week.org by Chabadie to fold the M of #MuseumWeek — or the W of #WomenMW — in origami, with a challenge to institutions and audiences to share their creations. Promoted throughout the month before the edition, notably by French museums.
Creative challenge launched eleven days before the 2017 edition: to repurpose the MuseumWeek logo to pay tribute to a woman artist and share it with the hashtag #WomenMW. Dozens of institutions responded — Le Signe National Center for Graphic Design, Museu de la Vida Rural, Kvindemuseet, Accorsi-Ometto Museum, Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona — and the campaign led to a dedicated Twitter Moment followed by a replay on June 26. A visual narrative of the contributions was published on the first day of the edition.
Meeting of Instagrammers at the Philharmonie de Paris during #MuseumWeek 2017, in the same series as those of the Opéra Comique and the Palais de la Découverte.
We will show a sunrise from La Pedrera rooftop
Speak about the play "Imperio" that will be at the Museum in April and May. The lead actor will answer questions from the public.
Innovative Projects of MEC "Apatit". New Exhibition in Tower
Tour the inaugural installation of L.A.'s new contemporary art museum, The Broad, with assistant curator Ed Schad (@icallitoranges)
Tour of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence broadcast live on Periscope by director Giulio Base for the #heritageMW day, relayed by the Italian Ministry of Culture and then by MuseumWeek, which shared the replay the same evening.
A Periscope tour and Q&A at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum's "Beauty" exhibit, led by an exhibit curator: www.cooperhewitt.org/2015/09/15/cooper-hewitt-announces-216-exhibition-beauty―cooper-hewitt-design-triennial/
3 x short periscopes exploring different galleries and behind-the-scenes spaces in the Museum after we close to the public
Q+A with Collections curator featuring craft objects and archive materials from the 1970s. This will showcase objects + materials from our enhanced collections website http://collections.craftscouncil.org.uk/first-decade
Lluïsa Oller, a member of the Communications Department, will present La Pedrera accessibility resources in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). We want to show how we make our heritage accessible to all people
Tour of our Collection storage area
The particularity of the Department of Prints and Drawings stems from a characteristic of the works in its care: their technical fragility and sensitivity to light prevent their permanent display. As a result, the department is organized like a library; the works are kept in storerooms, and only taken out for viewing in the reference room. The tour will take place in the "Cabinet des dessins" where a curator will show a choice of drawings from our collection.
Our Periscope will follow a museum gallery guide as he gives a guided tour of the galleries and collection to coincide with #heritageMW.
Tour and Q+A of Isaac Mizrahi's "An Unruly History" exhibit at the Jewish Museum, led by Assistant Curator Kelly Taxter: http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/isaac-mizrahi-an-unruly-history
We'll be doing an architectural tour of our museum with multiple stops
A tour of the collections with two of our staff members providing information on the art colony as well as #architectureMW
Private tour of the Jackson Pollock hanging broadcast live on Periscope by MoMA for #MuseumWeek, and relayed the same day by the campaign account.
One of the Getty Museum's curators of medieval manuscripts, Bryan Keene, will show the smallest OR the largest illuminated manuscript in the Getty's collections. The book is being determined by Twitter poll: https://twitter.com/thegetty/status/714514461973819392 This is part of our weekly Periscope show hosted by an educator called "Literally Anything" that focuses on one object per week, and that encourages audiences to say and ask "literally anything" about a work of art. We will also hashtag this week's broadcast with #peopleMW since Bryan is our featured museum person :) Please note that @thegetty is the Periscope and Twitter handle for the Getty Trust, while @gettymuseum is the Twitter handle for the Getty Museum. The Museum is part of the Trust and is the lead on Museum Week.
JCDecaux makes its network of over one hundred digital panels in Paris available to #MuseumWeek for the entire 2016 edition. The festival’s visual — “Join the first global cultural event on Twitter” — is displayed on the city’s street furniture from March 28 to April 3. A donated campaign that brings a festival previously confined to social networks out into the streets.
A sneak peek to the "secret" collection of artifacts from the excavation of the Roman building of Massaciuccoli.
Contemporary art is in the spotlight in #Oran, for three days, 150 works of art are offered to the public's curiosity at MuseumWeek Oran at the "Kazi Foundation" art gallery
The Museum of the Ursulines Monastery is located inside the vast complex of the Monastery of which it bears the name. The gallery is located on the ground floor of Palazzo Ferrini, which was built in 1606 by the homonymous family of notaries from Calvi, the first nucleus of the monastery and now also home to the City Hall of Calvi. Within this suggestive setting it is possible to admire the works of local artists from the territory of Calvi and also the Pasquale Chiomenti and Donata Chiomenti Vassalli collection kindly offered as a gift to the City by Filippo and Carlo Chiomenti in memory of their parents and presented to the public in a new display in 2012.
Behind the scenes tour of onsite art storage with Curator sharing favorite pieces and a conservation activity OR tour of "Richard Serra: Prints" with exhibition curator Dr. Rebecca Schoenthal
Third edition, focused on the preservation and celebration of culture, memory, and heritage, but also on tolerance, living together, and freedom of expression — explicitly in response to the Paris attacks, the Bardo Museum attack, the devastation of Palmyra, Nimrud, and Hatra, and the looting of the Mosul Museum. The official report counts 3,500 institutions registered in 75 countries across 4 continents, a 24% increase in registrations compared to 2015; thirteen accounts with over one million followers participated, compared to eight the previous year. The eight combined hashtags total more than 664,000 tweets, seen 294 million times — a 16% increase year over year. #ArchitectureMW has the highest volume (92,053 tweets), followed by #LoveMW and #HeritageMW. Twitter sponsors two hashtags (#ZoomMW, #LoveMW) as promoted trends in France and for the first time transforms its Twitter emoji into a picture frame for all official hashtags. This is the pivotal year of the partnership with UNESCO, which will continue: Irina Bokova, its Director-General, sends a letter of support for the operation. JCDecaux offers the same week its network of over one hundred digital panels in Paris — the first time MuseumWeek steps out of social networks to occupy the streets. Two influencer campaigns accompany the edition: #GuestMW, private museum visits by personalities, and a tour of seventeen Vine and Instagram creators through six Parisian monuments. The poster is a view of Earth taken by the European Space Agency.
In partnership with the agencies Niche and Vine, seventeen digital creators from France, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain are invited on a tour of six iconic Parisian monuments — Eiffel Tower, Louvre Museum, Centre Pompidou, Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Panthéon, Arc de Triomphe — moved from place to place in a van branded with #MuseumWeek colors. The tour produces one hundred nineteen pieces of content, including sixty Vines, totaling nine million cumulative views. Operation budget: €30,000.
The #GuestMW campaign offers private tours of iconic museums to personalities and digital creators, who share the experience live on Twitter and Periscope. Five visits are documented in the official report: singer Louane (539,000 followers) at the Louvre Museum on March 29; Broadway actors at the Whitney Museum on March 24; actor Kal Penn (235,000 followers) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 31; Korean digital creator @xhlrud (76,000 followers) at the Seoul History Museum on April 1; musician Ibrahim Maalouf at the Centre Pompidou on March 28.
Live broadcast from the Centre Pompidou on MuseumWeek’s Periscope account, with Kay Vasey, as part of the preparatory meetings for the 2016 edition.
Workshop in French broadcast live on MuseumWeek’s Periscope account, to prepare institutions for the 2016 edition: editorial best practices and Twitter usage during the week. Announced the day before, confirmed at the start, then broadcast live.
Gabinete de dibujos del Museo del Prado #MuseumWeek — visit to the drawing cabinet of the Museo del Prado.
We're learning about flat rock scorpions at the insect table at #meetascientist #MuseumWeek.
The visit by @vanesamartin_ through our museum #MuseumWeek begins — private tour by singer Vanesa Martín.
Science Demos LIVE from the Exploratorium #MuseumWeek.
On the last day of #MuseumWeek 2015, the Royal Ontario Museum brought together 25 influencers in its galleries for a day of selfies and creative poses around the day’s theme, #poseMW. The museum had previously engaged its own staff around the theme — one third of its employees were then active on Twitter.
Three new installations accompany the second edition. A time capsule — 60 × 30 × 28.6 cm, 30 kilos, made of acrylic, glass, carbon fiber, and metal — was sealed on March 29, 2015 at midnight to preserve all tweets from the event; entrusted to the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, it is not to be opened until 2035. Meanwhile, the BRIGHT studio and artist-developer Marcin Ignac produced a generative digital artwork based on Twitter data from each museum (geolocation, founding date, profile photo colors, conversational activity): exhibited at the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine, it is also shareable by each institution on its own website. Finally, a giant #MuseumWeek hashtag — six meters long, fifty-seven centimeters high — circulated all week on iconic Parisian sites; placed at the foot of the grand staircase of the Petit Palais, a matching prop — the Twitter bird in volume, wearing a hat — served as a photocall during the March 5 press conference.
Second edition, launched on March 5 at the Ministry of Culture in the presence of Fleur Pellerin and Dick Costolo, then CEO of Twitter. Announced to 1,000 institutions in 44 countries, it ultimately gathered 2,825, for 640,000 tweets and 237 million impressions — four times more participants than in 2014. Two new features accompany it: a time capsule preserving all tweets, entrusted to the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, and a digital artwork generated from these tweets by the BRIGHT studio and artist Marcin Ignac. The French poster carries the promise of the edition: “Museums reveal themselves on Twitter.”
Two consecutive sessions, 2:00-3:00 PM then 3:00-4:00 PM GMT, open to cultural institutions wishing to prepare their participation in the 2015 edition. Announced by Mar Dixon, co-organizer of the campaign, and relayed by the MuseumWeek account.
Press conference launching the second edition of #MuseumWeek, Thursday, March 5, 2015, at 5:00 PM, in the Salon des Maréchaux of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, in the presence of Minister Fleur Pellerin and Dick Costolo, then CEO of Twitter. Benjamin Benita, edition coordinator, presents the 7 days, 7 themes, and 7 hashtags of the event as well as its governance: a steering committee of French museum professionals, supported by Mar Dixon and backed by Twitter and the ministry — including notably Élise Maillard (Louvre Museum) and Claire Gayet (Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine). Announced figures: 1,000 institutions registered in 44 countries, compared to nearly 700 European institutions and more than 260,000 tweets for the first edition, born in France in 2014 from the commitment of twelve major museums. Two new initiatives are unveiled: a time capsule preserving all tweets of the event, entrusted to the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, and a digital artwork generated from these tweets by the BRIGHT studio and artist Marcin Ignac, destined for the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine.
Online meeting organized by AMCSTI (Association of Museums and Centers for the Development of Scientific, Technical and Industrial Culture) at lunchtime, dedicated to preparing #MuseumWeek 2015 in scientific culture venues. Benjamin Benita represented MuseumWeek alongside the Association des Petits Débrouillards and Julia Bource.
For the creativity day closing the first #MuseumWeek, the Palais de la découverte invites about forty amateur photographers and Instagram users to a photographic walk inside the museum. The instruction: stage themselves in the rooms, make the building a set, incorporate themselves into the museography. Coming with family or friends, they publish seventy photographs under #creaMW.
Online story followed by a Q&A session on Twitter, with an interpreter portraying Henry VIII.
Twitter Q&A session with the curator of the exhibition “Designs of the Year 2014.”
Participatory activation during a museum night event.
Participatory activation during a museum night event.
First edition, born in France from the commitment of twelve major museums brought together by Twitter France: Centre Pompidou, Château de Versailles, Cité de la musique, Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, Grand Palais RMN, musée du Louvre, musée de l’Orangerie, musée d’Orsay, musée du Luxembourg, musée du quai Branly, Palais de la découverte and Palais de Tokyo. The principle was established from the start and never changed: seven days, seven themes, seven hashtags — #coulissesMW, #quizzMW, #loveMW, #imagineMW, #questionMW, #archiMW, #creaMW — with each institution free to interpret them in its own way. 630 European institutions participate, including 103 French, two-thirds outside Paris. Twitter estimates the exchanges at 260,000 tweets, including 20,800 photographs, sent by more than 15,400 accounts. The press followed: four TV reports, ten radio segments, sixty articles in national and regional press, more than 450 online. The operation then had neither a lead organization nor a budget: it was supported by a steering committee of museum professionals and a platform.