The Inclusive Museum Conference: What Museums Post Pandemic?
2021-09-08 - 2021-09-11
What Museums Post Pandemic?
Visitors
No longer the universal individual citizen of our recent modern aspirations, visitors of today are recognizably diverse.
Forms of Engagement
What is the role today of the reader, the viewer, the audience, the citizen, the customer, the patron?
Modalities of Representation
The emerging communications environment—in which image, sound, and word are all made of the same digital stuff—affords new openings for museums and new challenges.
Reimagining the Scholarly Conference
To support the range of options, and flexibility needed in our current climate, we will offer a blended conference experience. You do not need to commit either to a place-based or virtual presentation at the time of submission. You can present both ways, or change your mode of the presentation if your preferences change. The choice to participate virtually could also be a moral decision – for the planet, for security, or when the financial burden of travel is too great. We aim to foster spaces that align with principles of social justice and community development.

Deutsche National Bibliothek (DNB) Conference: Digital Material
2021-09-15 - 2021-09-17
To mark the completion of the digitisation project of Jan Tschichold’s estate, the German Museum of Books and Writing is organising an international conference on 15 and 16 September, titled “Digital material. Digitized collections in cultural heritage institutions. Conference on the curating and analyzing of digitized collections using the example of Jan Tschichold’s estate”. You can take part either on site or virtually.
Conference Day 1: Jan Tschichold’s Legacy in European Cultural Heritage Institutions
Conference Day 2: Digitized Collections in Cultural Heritage Institutions – Methods of Curating and Analyzing

DCN Tech Platform Demo: Siteimprove - Accessibility Solutions for your Website
2021-09-23 - 2021-09-24
The Digital Culture Network is pleased to present this 30-min live demo and Q&A by Siteimprove. This event is part of a series of Tech Demos, presented with the purpose of sharing opportunities and ideas about what new technologies can offer the arts and cultural sector.
The Siteimprove platform offers a whole suite of website management tools, that covers Accessibility, Content Quality Assurance, SEO, Analytics, as well as Data Privacy and GDPR. They also helped write the accessibility legislation for the Government. They will be walking us through their accessibility tool and sharing best practice examples.

2021 ICEE Annual Conference
2021-09-27 - 2021-10-02
From September 27 to October 1, 2021, the 2021 ICOM ICEE Annual Conference will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, in collaboration with the Museum of Art and History of the City of Geneva (MAH), and ICOM Switzerland. The preliminary plan features four days of keynote speeches, panel sessions, networking opportunities, private visits to exhibitions and museum collections in Geneva, and a one-day excursion to Lausanne.
The safety of our members, participants, partners, and collaborators is our top priority. As we write this message, it is our hope that we will be able to meet face to face in Geneva at the end of September. However, with the ongoing uncertainties of the global pandemic, along with travel restrictions, we are aware that there is a chance face to face activities might not happen. Therefore, the conference plan can be easily switched from an in-person event to a digital platform for a virtual conference, just as we successfully did for the 2020 ICEE Virtual Conference. We will keep you informed.
The conference theme, along with the call for papers and more exciting news about the 2021 conference will be announced in our April newsletter. Please save the date for the conference. We hope everyone will join us in for the 2021 ICEE Conference in Geneva, face to face or digitally!
A few sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, please contact the ICEE team at programs.icee.icom@gmail.com.

IAAPA Expo Europe
2021-09-27 - 2021-10-01
IAAPA Expo Europe is the largest international trade show and conference and the primary meeting point for the attractions industry in the Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) region.
Every year thousands of operators and managers gather to discover the latest innovations, technology, and services for all the aspects of the leisure business. The Conference programme includes keynotes, industry presentations, panel discussions and workshops covering industry trends, best practices and outlooks. Special Events, EDUTours and networking receptions offer connection opportunities with operator and supplier side industry leaders.

Communicating the Arts Conference
2021-09-27 - 2021-09-30
Plateforme 10, the new art district in the heart of Lausanne, will host the 25th edition of Communicating the Arts conference. The union of the Musée cantonal des Beaux-arts (MCBA), the Musée de l’Elysée and the mudac, complemented by the presence of the Toms Pauli and Félix Vallotton Foundations, will form PLATEFORME 10, a genuine cultural platform in Lausanne.
Communicating the Arts Lausanne will bring together under one roof, a host of communication and engagement experts working in museums, historical monuments, heritage, the visual and performing arts as we explore the Art of Placemaking.

Grow Your Digital Skills: Create Videos with YouTube and Explore Google Arts & Culture
2021-09-28 - 2021-09-29
Are you looking to find out how to grow the reach of your existing YouTube channel? Or are you just starting out, and unsure of how to produce videos that really stand out from the crowd? The Digital Culture Network has teamed up with Google Arts & Culture to bring you a training session on how to improve the reach and impact of your video content by understanding who your audience is and how to produce the best content for them.
A Google Digital Garage expert will explain how to identify your niche by understanding your brand and target audience’s behaviours. They’ll share technical tips for producing engaging videos, highlight ways to increase traffic to your page and explain how to measure your success. This will be followed by break-out conversations, allowing you to connect with your peers and digest learnings from the presentation.
The webinar includes:

“Create videos with YouTube” presented by the Google Digital Garage team
Break-out sessions for you to further discuss and connect with your peers
Information on how to access free support from the Digital Culture Network’s nine Tech Champions
Highlights from inspirational Google Arts & Culture programmes around the world and details on how you could partner with them

Grow Your Digital Skills: Google Ad Grants and Tools for Charities with Google Arts & Culture
2021-09-30 - 2021-10-01
Are you registered as a charitable organisation or HMRC exempt charity in England? If you are, you could be eligible for a range of free support and resources, including Ad Grants, from Google for Nonprofits. The Digital Culture Network has teamed up with Google Arts & Culture for this session to help you understand how to access Google for Nonprofits resources and how to use them to maximise reach and create effective free advertising campaigns.
A Google Digital Garage trainer will show step-by-step how to set up your free Google Nonprofits account. They’ll outline all the resources available, explain how to access Ad Grants, and share tips for producing ads that help you reach your goals. This will be followed by an extended Q&A session with the trainer and our Tech Champions.
The webinar includes:

“Set Up and Grow Your Charity Online” presented by the Google Digital Garage team
Extended Q+A with the Digital Culture Network and Google teams
Information on how to access free support from the Digital Culture Network’s nine Tech Champions
Highlights from inspirational Google Arts & Culture programmes around the world and details on how to become a partner.

Blooloop V-Expo 2021: Celebrating Innovation in Visitor Attractions
2021-10-04 - 2021-10-07
Now in its second year, blooloop V-Expo is a high-level, content-driven online event delivered by industry leaders. It brings together professionals in the visitor attractions industry to network and learn from each other.
Strategy – learn from industry leaders
Innovation – see the latest innovations across the sector
Networking – meet like-minded industry peers

2021 ASTC Annual Conference
2021-10-05 - 2021-10-08
The ASTC Annual Conference is one of the premier annual events for science-engagement professionals and leaders in science and technology centers and museums as well as allied organizations across North America and around the world.

Microsoft Leading Libraries Summit
2021-10-12 - 2021-10-14
﻿You’re invited to attend the Microsoft Leading Libraries Summit, L², Libraries in transformation, anywhere, anytime. Over two-days, we will explore global leaders in this field, sharing real world examples of how they’ve leveraged technology to further their missions.
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MUŻE.X: Shaping Museum Futures
2021-10-18 - 2021-10-21
As museums navigate uncertain times, some seek to look back in the hope that the new normal will recover the lost publics, most of whom can only be reached online intermittently and in between lockdowns and restricted access procedures. Others have slowly but surely embarked on systemic change. This conference seeks to present the latest thinking, actions, and initiatives that modestly or radically depart from the traditional museum idea, to rethink the museum of the future. We are keen on showcasing the latest developments in the museum landscape, be they reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic, conceptual initiatives that have been in the pipeline for a while, or tangible projects happening and evolving in the now, and which may well inform, influence, and define the museum of the future. We are particularly keen on showcasing the lessons learnt over the past year and the ways and means how these have been overcome. Yet, we areUni also eager to create spaces for critical reflections that can help shape museum futures.

Beyond 2021 Conference
2021-10-20 - 2021-10-22
A conference from 20 – 21 October 2021, where thinkers, makers, investors, and researchers across the creative industries come together to explore the relationship between creative research and business innovation.
BEYOND 2021 will take the theme of place to look at how the Creative Industries are forming the heart of new vibrant cultural and creative economies.
This year’s conference will explore the role of creativity and creative tech in forming and navigating new places. There is a big space opening for the Creative Industries to lead the way with mission-driven research and innovation to reimagine, reinvent and reinvigorate place.

Arts Marketing Association(AMA) Conference 2021
2021-10-21 - 2021-10-23
We are masters of adapting, pivoting, rethinking, and resetting. With Covid-19, social justice, climate change, and more, we’ve been riding a rollercoaster like never before.
Our sector, our audiences, our ways of working have changed. With this, we take the opportunity to rethink what, how, and why we do what we do.

What can we learn from the changes we’ve seen — and what’s coming up that we need to know?
What new relationships do we want to build with our audiences — and how?
How can we keep making progress towards big-picture goals?
Can we reimagine the kind of arts and culture sector we want to see — and redefine our place in it?

AMA Conference 2021 will bring you case studies, practical help, the space to answer the big questions and the support you need.

Touring Exhibitions Group (TEG) Marketplace
2021-10-21 - 2021-10-23
Join colleagues nationwide for two days of networking and inspiration at the UK’s principal touring and partnership exhibitions event.
At this year’s online Marketplace the seminar theme across the two days, 21st and 22 October 2021, is ‘The Sustainability of our Industry’, including future-facing topics such as equality, diversity and inclusion; digital technology and skills and the economic situation.
As well as inspirational and informative speakers, there will be opportunities to:

Share your current and future projects, via ‘3-minute Share’ sessions and networking activities.

Meet other organisations offering and looking to host exhibitions.

Talk to representatives from sector support organisations about the issues facing your organisation, to find out how they might help.

Meet with a range of commercial companies providing services, products and exhibitions to our sector.

Deloitte’s Art & Finance Panels: Art & Wealth Management in a World of Changing Priorities
2021-10-25 - 2021-10-30
Deloitte Luxembourg is pleased to announce the 14th Annual Art & Finance Conference will take place with a series of daily panels from 25 to 29 October 2021, 15:30 to 17:00 (CEST).
The five online conference panels will cover various topics:
• Monday, 25 October: Presentation of the 7th edition of the Deloitte Private & ArtTactic Art & Finance report
• Tuesday, 26 October: ArtTech companies and wealth management – a focus on the collectors
• Wednesday, 27 October: Trust – transparency – responsibility in the art market and wealth management
• Thursday, 28 October: Social impact investment and culture & creative industries
• Friday, 29 October: Tokenisation of collectible assets & wealth management

DCN Tech Platform Demo: Semrush - One Platform to Grow Your Visibility
2021-10-28 - 2021-10-29
The Digital Culture Network is pleased to present this 30-min live demo and Q&A by Semrush. This event is part of a series of Tech Demos, presented with the purpose of sharing opportunities and ideas about what new technologies can offer the arts and cultural sector.
Ever felt like it’s a never-ending struggle to drive visitors to your website? Semrush holds the key to making your website visible! With over 50 tools in just one platform, you’ll learn about competitors’ strategies, create high-quality content, execute top-notch marketing campaigns, and measure the impact.

Innovating Cultural Heritage Through Digitalisation
2021-10-28 - 2021-10-29
While many cultural heritage sites were closed for long periods of time during the pandemic, they did not stay still. It was the perfect incentive to focus and find innovative ways to keep visitors engaged.
Do you know any good examples of innovative ways in which cultural heritage sites reinvented themselves? Do you have any thoughts and ideas of how they can improve the visitor engagement? Can we transpose what we learned from the journey of cultural heritage sites through the pandemic into our organizations and businesses?

NFT.NYC
2021-11-01 - 2021-11-05 | Times Square
Since its inaugural conference in February 2019, NFT.NYC events have hosted thousands of attendees, hundreds of leading speakers and the best projects in the Non-Fungible Token ecosystem. NFT.NYC will return to Times Square on October 20-21 for a two-day in-person event.

The Art Business Conference
2021-11-02 - 2021-11-03 | London
Founded in 2014, The Art Business Conference is the leading global platform for the discussion of key issues in today’s art market. The one-day conferences held in London, New York and Shanghai are attended by senior art market professionals offering knowledge and insight for all those running an art business or art collection.

How to Plan Effective and Engaging Content for Your Website
2021-11-03 - 2021-11-04
In this one-hour webinar Roberta Beattie, Digital Culture Network Tech Champion for Websites, will outline processes and techniques to help you define and plan an effective and engaging content strategy for your website.
Using analytics and other tools you can find out how your content is currently being accessed and how often. Roberta will show you how to use that information to plan website content which will attract new visitors and retain your current audience.
You will learn:

What a content strategy is
Where to find content opportunities
How to create engaging content
How to create content that attracts new audiences
How to create content that resonates with your existing audiences

Speculative Values: Between the Institution and the NFT
2021-11-04 - 2021-11-05
What can an institution become when it is organized with the network at its core? This question, which has been a topic of concern for art institutions since the rise of the public internet, is newly relevant thanks to the ascendance of blockchain-based forms of social organizing at a time of ongoing crisis for many legacy institutions.
Collecting art, making grants, and other functions long performed by arts organizations are increasingly being taken on by blockchain-based digital cooperatives known as DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations), which are organized using tools such as NFTs (non-fungible tokens, a means of certifying digital assets on the blockchain). Co-organized by the New Museum’s digital art affiliate Rhizome and interdisciplinary contemporary arts organization Kadist, this event asks to what extent the work of institutions might be propelled forward using these new models.
Gathering artists, developers, and thinkers for a series of conversations and presentations, the afternoon-long event will also consider the apparent contradictions inherent in these forms, which are both financialized and cooperative; how these relate to the contradictions involved in traditional institutional models; and how these contradictions might play out in the future.

CiMAM 2021 Annual Conference
2021-11-05 - 2021-11-08
While the pandemic appears to be the most pressing challenge today, it is merely a vector of more global political and environmental changes. The conference will address the roles of artists and museums in this dramatically changing global situation. How can artists be agents of change, and museums be places to test proposals for the communities of the future? Can museums guide processes of political and/or technological solutions?
During the three days of discussions, the conference will focus on the two interconnected current crises of Xenophobia and Climate Change, and the sometimes hidden or unexplored connections between the two.
Keynote speakers and relevant case-study presentations will show how institutions, artists, and thinkers working together can provide practical laboratories concerning these emerging issues and offer methodological tools to combat discriminatory and nationalistic tendencies in an increasingly divisive and divided world.

inDICEs: Measuring the Impact of Digital Culture
2021-11-05 - 2021-12-20
Apply for the chance to learn how to monitor trends, design a digital strategy and assess your capacity and performance. Together, we will explore how digitized collections can become assets in a comprehensive digital strategy based on your core mission and ambition. You will learn how open access, online publishing and social media presence can be used to establish new relationships with stakeholders and empower citizens to actively engage with and contribute to your content. With special attention on how this can help in the development of a future-proof, sustainable business model.
The free consultation workshop ‘Monitoring & Self-Assessing the Digital Performance in Museums’ takes place online from 10:00-12:00 CET on 5, 12 and 19 November 2021. Applications are welcome until 28 October.

6th International Museum Construction Congress
2021-11-07 - 2021-11-10 | London
IMCC is designed for international museum leaders, architects, project managers, project directors, museum leadership, facilities and security administrators, business development directors, finance & procurement directors, collections & exhibition directors, social media directors involved in new construction, renovation or expansion of museums.

Museum Association Conference 2021: Brave New World
2021-11-08 - 2021-11-11
How can museums change lives in a post-pandemic world and help society respond to the many challenges it faces?
In the past year museums proved that they can be responsive, creative and resourceful. We look at how we can build on what we have learned to emerge stronger and more relevant.
We explore how can we work effectively with communities hit hard by economic hardship and social upheaval during the pandemic. We discuss what we can do to improve people’s health and wellbeing, and give them hope and confidence in the future.
We examine the role we can play in tackling the urgent issues of our day, including the climate crisis, racism and discrimination.
We discuss how we can galvanise our collections and the expertise and passion of those who work with and for museums to engage audiences in new and exciting ways, including the transformational impact of digital technology.

ACM SIGGRAPH: Museums Immersive Experiences and Beyond
2021-11-09 - 2021-11-10
There is a quiet revolution evolving in the realm of experiential museum design globally. Often called “Immersives”, some of these digital-based experiences incorporate extended reality (XR) techniques such as augmented reality and virtual reality. Others employ large-scale, sensory-engaging, projected environments or domes that offer unique interactivity and many selfie opportunities to visitors. All generate feelings of discovery and what might be called “ah hah” moments.
Our program focuses on an intriguing subset in the Immersives arena, namely, experiences focused on supporting cultural heritage preservation and historical issues of social importance.
We showcase several leading innovators behind pushing the creative technologies forward on this mission. Their projects have extended reach and utilize immersive display, 360°degree panoramic content, augmented reality (AR), spoken word interactivity, natural language processing, AI, big data visualization and more.

Europeana 2021 Conference: Recover, Rebuild, Grow
2021-11-10 - 2021-11-13
We’re really looking forward to Europeana 2021 taking place between 10-12 November 2021. In light of last year’s successful digital conference and with ongoing uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re planning for another online celebration of digital cultural heritage. If you work in or around digital cultural heritage, Europeana 2021 is for you.
At Europeana 2021, we want to explore with you how we can support a sustainable, responsible and inspiring cultural heritage sector for today and tomorrow.

Tiqets Most Remarkable Venue Awards 2021
2021-11-10 - 2021-11-11 | Tourism Innovation Summit
Museums and attractions have had to be more creative than ever to provide exceptional experiences to customers. That’s why our annual tourism awards series, the Remarkable Venue Awards, is shining a spotlight on museums and attractions that are moving the industry forward.

Collective Imagination 2021 Workshops
2021-11-15 - 2021-11-20
Collective Imagination is Gallery Systems’ International Users Conference, attracting museum professionals from all over the world.
Attendees come away with new connections within the cultural heritage community, new insights into Collection Management, and a better understanding of the TMS Suite.
