Three days of engaged discussion
and collective experimentation

Decolonizing the Museum

Understand how the Museo de Antioquia has developed processes to investigate questions about its colonial legacy, advocate for the generation of stories previously excluded from its own history, and make visible conflicts and social disagreements from strategies framed in contemporary artistic practices.

Come Back to Earth!

Two years after opening, the Biomuseo realized that the public perception of the museum was radically different than anticipated. Learn how the Biomuseo has changed the public’s perception that it is too expensive, distant, and inaccessible.

Creating “Living Museums” in the Brazilian Amazon

Gain insight into The “Living Museums” initiatives, undertaken by indigenous peoples and communities of the Brazilian Amazon, to preserve collective memory that is documented in the “New Social Cartography Project of the Amazon.”

Penguin Revolution at the Museum

Learn about the largest student movement in the history of Chile (2006) that advanced controversial change and informed a permanent exhibition in the museum that invites debate and mediated discussion.

Teatro Explora

The Expansive Museum

Are museums building deeper connections with audiences and satisfying their ever-changing expectations and needs? While some might argue that festivals emphasize spectacle over substance, they offer many innovative ideas in designing experiences, and building and sustaining audiences.
What can museums learn from festivals to enhance the visitor experience?
What kind of museum would benefit most from a hybrid approach?

Aud. Planetario

Communities Can Shape/Shake Museums

This panel session will describe museums that are created and informed by communities. Presentations will focus on a range of models where communities are both institutional and content curators, founders and funders, co-designers of museum vocations, organizational structures, and missions, and co-evaluators of how effectiveness and success are measured.

 Aud. Explora 2

Embracing Dissonance in the Museum

Do local and native identities have a voice in museums? What are the challenges to including local and indigenous narratives in a nation’s story? How have museums actively engaged diverse cultures in their programs and practices? This discussion will examine strategies to surmount public and organizational obstacles with the goal of developing inclusive practices in museums and advancing consensus-based actions.

Aud. Explora 1

New Horizons: Collaborations for Greater Community Impact

Museums can build bridges between diverse community stakeholders to increase their community impact by working with non-traditional partners (libraries, prisons, nursing homes, etc.). Examples will be shared of unique collaborations that have led to organizational transformation and influenced new public policies.

 14:30 - 18:00 Biblioteca Planetario

Looking inside: The Organizational Dimension of the Museum

If you want to initiate change, innovate and improve your team building skills, this workshop will show you how to start, as well as provide an understanding of the multiple dimensions of change and the evidence that confirms transformation is happening.

 14:30 - 18:00Taller Central Exploratorio

Hack the Maker Space

The proliferation of “maker” spaces, have created many community-based workspaces for people to gather to create, invent, learn and problem solve. Understand how the principles that inform these highly collaborative environments might also be applied to identifying inventive solutions to community problems and issues. 

 14:30 - 18:00Laboratorio de Ideación Exploratorio

Can Civic Design and Art Initiate Reconciliation and Peace?

What roles can a museum play to develop alternatives in a world in crisis? How do we design a site of memory where fragility becomes the potential? How do we provide perspectives and context for wounded places and work effectively with sensitive aspects of a site? Gain greater insight on context- and community-based design and how it might be applied to sites of memory, museums and public places.

 14:30 - 18:00 Sala Experimental 2 Exploratorio

Reimagined Communities

Explore the relationship between museums and communities that goes beyond the label of a “community museum”. In a world where nations, religions, and corporations are defining identity, museums may need to be more attentive to their interdependent relationship with communities. How can we reimagine the practices of collaboration between museums and their community?

 14:30 - 18:00Sala Infantil Explora

Rapid Prototyping for Exhibitions

This workshop provides creative tools for designing and renovating museum exhibitions that deepen the visitor experience and that also save time and money.