Upcoming Events
Conferences:
Heritage Day 2025 – London, England
5th March 2025
The Heritage Day 2025 run by The Heritage Alliance is being held at the Tower of London on the theme ‘Heritage Creates’ to explore the power of heritage to shape creativity, community, and policy. Topics that will be discussed include effective policy and decision-making, youth opportunities and engagement in the sector, community involvement and fostering collaboration, and more!
2025 Irish Museum Association – Annual Conference – Co Kerry, Ireland
5th – 6th March 2025
The 2025 IMA Annual Conference, Collections in Transition – the life cycle of objects, will take place in Tralee, Co Kerry, on Wednesday 5th March and Thursday 6th March, supported by Kerry County Museum. This conference will explore strategic solutions and good practices associated with the life cycle of collections, addressing themes relating to ethical stewardship and policy development, innovative approaches, amoung others.
Cultural Enterprise Conference and Trade Show – ACC Liverpool, England
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 – Paris, France
25th – 26th March 2025
Each year, SITEM offers programming that is connected to the strategic and field challenges of cultural stakeholders. This is the event’s 29th edition and will be held in the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris. Registration is now open via the link below.
Museum Ethnographers Group Conference – Liverpool, England
24th – 25th April 2025
MEG’s 2025 Conference is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year hosted by the National Museums Liverpool with support from the Transatlantic Slavery and Legacies in Museums Forum. This conference involves the presentation of papers around a set theme where members and sector colleagues present their work. The conference is also an occasion for MEG to hold its Annual General Meeting. Registration details are to be announced soon.
Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) Conference – New York City, USA
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 – London, England
14th – 15th May 2025
The Museums and Heritage Show is one of the UK’s largest cultural sector conferences, the Museums and Heritage Show blends networking, premium content, and community support together into a multi-day event. Registration for this event is free and can be completed via the link below.
InterActivity 2025 – Uplifting the Community: Reaching New Heights Together – New Mexico, USA
14th – 16th May 2025
The Association of Children’s Museums and Explora Science Centre and Children’s Museum of Alburquerque invite you to this conference which will provide ample opportunities to explore the ways in which the field lifts up our children and families. Registration for this event is now open and can be accessed via the link below.
Association of Independent Museums (AIM) – Portsmouth, England
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.
National Conference on Cultural Protection – Leveraging Partnerships: Collaborative Approaches to Cultural Property Protection – Washington, DC
22nd – 24th September 2025
The National Conference on Cultural Property Protection (NCCPP) is excited to announce that its annual conference is back for 2025 in Washington, DC. Registration for this event will be available soon. To be the first to find out more about this event, click the link below to sign up to their mailing list.
Museums Association Conference 2025 – Cardiff, Wales
7th – 9th October 2025
Following the success of their 2024 conference, the Museums Association is delighted to share the 2025 event will take place at Sain Ffagan Amgueddfa Werin Cymru – St Fagans National Museum of History in Cardiff. Early bird tickets are available now until the 31st March 2025 – linked below.
Museum Ideas Conference 2025 – London, England
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
Save the date for this inspiring event being held in Denmark later this year which will welcome inspiring panel discussing, workshops, networking opportunities, museum study visits and more with the Network of European Museum Organisations. Registration is due to open June 2025. Further details can be found via the link below.
ICOM 27th General Conference – Dubai
10th – 14th November 2025
Discussing the theme ‘The Future of Museums in Rapidly Changing Communities’, the 27th ICOM General Conference will take place in Dubai. The event will recognise that a whirlwind of global events has reshaped our understanding of the world and our place in it, placing us into an era of constant transformation, with museums also on this journey. Further details will be shared soon.
International Committee for Museums and Collections of Moderns Art (CIMAM) – Turin, Italy
28th – 30th November 2025
The CIMAM committee announced the details of their next conference during their General Assembly last December. This is the conference’s 57th annual event and it will serve as a unique platform for modern and contemporary art museum professionals to exchange ideas and tackle pressing issues in the field. Registration will open in mid-April 2025. Visit their website linked below for more details.