Upcoming Events
Conferences:
Cultural Enterprise Conference and Trade Show – ACC Liverpool, UK
12th – 13th March 2025
This event brings together learning, experience, and best practices from all types of cultural venues across all areas of commercial activity. Featuring speakers from across these vectors, an inspirational trade show and great networking events.
SITEM Conference – Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
25th – 26th March 2025
Each year, SITEM offers programming that is connected to the strategic and field challenges of cultural stakeholders. Registration is due to open in January 2025. For further information, click the link below.
Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) Conference – New York City
1st – 2nd May 2025
AAMC is the flagship organisation for nonprofit art curators across the globe. Each year they host the Art Curators Conference, the singular event centring on the art curatorial profession. This multi-day event includes networking, special events, sessions, and keynotes. Leading up to the event are leadership initiatives in conjunction with their Propel Programme and Professional Alliance for Curators of Colour.
American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and Museum Expo – Los Angeles, California, USA
6th – 9th May 2025
This conference is designed to help attendees feel reinvigorated and more deeply connected to our field. At AAM 2025, you won’t find a shortage of opportunities to expand your network and connect with peers over challenges, successes, new ideas, and inspiration. Registration for this event is now open via the link below.
Museums and Heritage Show – Olympia, London, UK
14th – 15th May 2025
The Museums and Heritage Show is one of the UKs largest cultural sector conferences, the Museums and Heritage Show blends networking, premium content, and community support together into a multi-day event. This event is also completely free of charge but does require your pre-registration pass to enter. More details to be announce soon.Â
Association of Independent Museums (AIM) – Portsmouth
18th – 19th June 2025
The next AIM conference is taking place at the Mary Rose Museum in partnership with Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Tickets are due to go on sale in January 2025. To find out more about AIM, make sure to visit their website linked below.
Eighteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum – Zaragoza, Spain
15th – 17th September 2025
Founded in 2008, The Inclusive Museum Research Network is brought together by a shared concern for the future role of the museum and how it can become more inclusive. They seek to build an epistemic community to make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries.
Museum Ideas Conference 2025 – London, UK
9th October 2025
Since 2012, the Museum Ideas conference has hosted speakers from around the globe, including South Africa, Argentina, India, UAE, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, and many European countries. The annual event has welcomed museum workers from over 30 countries, fostering a global exchange of transformative ideas through impactful talks, wide-ranging discussions, and international networking.
NEMO European Museum Conference 2025 – Horsens, Denmark
26th – 28th October 2025
Since 2012, the Museum Ideas conference has hosted speakers from around the globe, including South Africa, Argentina, India, UAE, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, and many European countries. The annual event has welcomed museum workers from over 30 countries, fostering a global exchange of transformative ideas through impactful talks, wide-ranging discussions, and international networking.