Editions

Reimagining the Museum offers a forum to discuss timely topics and dilemmas, inspire collective commitment to the museum cause and strengthen professional networks.

Consisting of three consecutive days of face-to-face learning, the program offers examples of museum best practices and case studies of institutional transformation, as well as opportunities to learn how to initiate and manage change, and explore new tools and strategies. Participants share a leading role with speakers in debating ideas and reimagining practices to meet the needs of ever-changing communities. Through its comprehensive scope, critical and reflective spirit and lively exchange of ideas, Reimagining the Museum is one of the most groundbreaking meetings for museum professionals in the region.

From September 2-4, 2015, Fundación TyPA and AAM joined forces to present the first edition of Reimagining the Museum: Conference of the Americas, which brought together more than 600 museum professionals from Latin and North America. This inaugural event created a network of professionals from across the Americas committed to promoting positive transformation in the museum field.

2015 WEBSITE
2015 VIDEO GALLERY
2015 PUBLICATION

The second edition in Medellin, Colombia, November 1-3, 2017, was hosted by Parque Explora, a science and technology museum that serves as a symbol of the transformative power of public education and empowerment in a city that has overcome violence and social strife. The second edition focused on culture as the catalyst for social and political progress and reform.

2017 WEBSITE
2017 VIDEO GALLERY
2017 PUBLICATION

The third edition will take place on November 20-22, 2019, in Oaxaca, Mexico. Oaxaca is the most biodiverse state in Mexico, with a great diversity of indigenous languages, practices and traditions, music, arts, and customs that contribute to its vibrant cultural heritage. This edition of Reimagining the Museum will focus on the challenges and responsibilities of coexistence between people of diverse social, political and cultural origin, as well as their relationship with the natural environment.

EMR 2017

Organizers

AAM – American Alliance of Museums

The world’s largest museum service organization, the American Alliance of Museums strengthens museums through leadership, advocacy and collaboration. AAM has been bringing museum professionals together since 1906, helping to develop standards and best practices, offering essential resources and career development and providing advocacy on issues of concern to the entire museum community. AAM represents a membership of over 35,000 institutions and individuals from all 50 U.S. states and nearly 60 countries.

The Latino Network, a professional network of the AAM, represents the needs of Latino professionals working in museums and cultural institutions in the United States. The Network offers expertise to U.S. museums on Latino issues and engaging Latino audiences through the development of exhibitions, collections, public programs, and education initiatives. Additionally, it serves as a liaison between the U.S. museum community and Latin American and Caribbean museums, research centers, and cultural institutions and offers guidance to museums across the Americas in their efforts to create partnerships and collaborations.

AAM WEBSITE

Fundación TyPA – Teoría y Práctica de las Artes

Based in Buenos Aires, Fundación TyPA has been promoting training and advancement in the areas of museums, literature and film in Latin America since 2004. It organizes training programs, translates and generates its own publications, creates digital files, provides advice and organizes collaborative networks to support cultural production and its circulation around the world. Over the past 13 years, TyPA has invited experts from leading institutions to participate in its programs with nearly 2,000 museum professionals in the region.

Some recent programs include meetings on design and public space, creative management, audiences, social inclusion and organizational transformation. The TyPA Lab on Museum Management, created in 2013 to train a new generation of museum leaders in Latin America, is considered to be one of the most effective training programs from which four generations of professionals from seven countries of the region have graduated.

FUNDACIÓN TYPA WEBSITE