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✨ Thank you for being part of The CoMuseum Conference 2025 ✨ Since we closed this special edition of The CoMuseum Conference, we are filled with gratitude, inspiration, and—most of all—hope. Celebrating 15 years of CoMuseum gave us a moment to imagine together the future of museums as spaces of hope, care, imagination, healing, and resilience. With 🔷 37 speakers from the UK and across the EU, 🔷 8 hours of plenary and 9 hours of masterclasses, 🔷 a 4-hour participatory workshop and advocacy discussion, we came together to reflect, question, and reimagine. Together, we will continue to explore big and urgent questions: ❔ How can we prepare museum professionals not just to react, but to act in the face of global challenges? ❔ How can CoMuseum better support you and your institutions in meeting these challenges and achieving your goals? ❔ And how do we stay hopeful while navigating the uncertainties of tomorrow? Thank you to all our speakers, facilitators, partners, sponsors, volunteers and participants for joining us! The CoMuseum is organised by @thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece @britishcouncileurope #comuseum2025 #thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece #museumsandhope #museumsrevisited

International Museum Day 2026: Museums Uniting a Divided World Museums across the globe, come together to mark International Museum Day under the theme “Museums Uniting a Divided World.” This year’s theme highlights the vital role museums can play as bridges across cultural, social, and geopolitical divides — fostering dialogue, understanding, inclusion, and peace within and between communities worldwide. Throughout the years, The CoMuseum International Conference, has served as a platform for exchange and critical reflection across borders, disciplines, and communities, bringing together museum professionals, artists, scholars, policymakers, and cultural practitioners from around the world. Rooted in the belief that museums can act as civic spaces of connection and understanding, The CoMuseum has consistently explored how museums can foster empathy, challenge polarisation, and strengthen democratic and inclusive societies. In this spirit, CoMuseum will continue to serve this cause, supporting museums as active agents in building more connected and equitable futures — with people at the centre. #InternationalMuseumDay #IMD2026 #MuseumsUnitingADividedWorld #MuseumsUniteTheWorld #MuseumDay2026 #MuseumsForPeace #CultureForUnity #MuseumInclusion #MuseumsForAll #CultureConnects #MuseumCommunity #MuseumStories #ArtEducation #GlobalMuseums #Heritage

From Cultural Value to Public Policy Advocacy in and through Museums and Cultural Institutions As part of the @delphieconomicforum Economic Forum XI, this @thecomuseum signature event — organised by the @thebenakimuseum Benaki Museum and the @britishcouncil British Council, Programming Partners of the Forum — brings culture into the core of public policy discourse, examining its role in shaping Europe’s future. 🗓 Friday 24 April 2026 🕕 18:10–18:50 📍 Ermis Hall, Amalia Hotel, Delphi, Greece This event forms part of CoMuseum’s signature events and reflects the conference’s ongoing commitment to strengthening the role of museums and cultural organisations in contemporary societies. Key questions: 🔵 How can culture move from a complementary role to a strategic position within economic and policy frameworks? 🔵 What does it mean, in practical terms, to embed culture within competitiveness, democracy, and security? 🔵 And if its impact is now widely acknowledged, why is it still marginal in funding and decision-making processes? Invited speakers: Elly Andriopoulou, Managing Director, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center @snfcc Anastasia Andritsou @andritsouanastasia , Country Director Greece and Cyprus, British Council @britishcouncil @britishcouncileurope Lars Ebert, Secretary General, Culture Action Europe @culture_action_europe Emmie Kell, Director of Museums and Cultural Property, Arts Council England @aceagrams Esme Ward, Director Manchester Museum @mcrmuseum , the University of Manchester (current European Museum of the Year) Chair: Dr Sophia Handaka @sophakas , Curator of World Cultures and CoMuseum CoFounder, Benaki Museum @thebenakimuseum 🎥 Livestreamed via the Forum’s page upon registration lphiforum.gr/ 📋 See the full agenda: lphiforum.gr/agenda #DelphiForum #CoMuseum #BenakiMuseum #BritishCouncil #CulturalPolicy #Museums #PublicPolicy #Arts #Europe

#CoMuseumsMoments Provocation by Natalie Giorgadze @nataliegiorgadze , General Director of @culture_action_europe , Belgium The CoMuseum is organised by @thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece @britishcouncileurope #comuseum2025 #thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece #museumsandhope #museumsrevisited

#CoMuseumsMoments Future Curating – towards collective practices with humans and non-human others with Joasia Krysa, Professor of Exhibition Research, Liverpool John Moores University @ljmu & Liverpool Biennial @liverpoolbiennial (UK) The CoMuseum is organised by @thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece @britishcouncileurope #comuseum2025 #thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece #museumsandhope #museumsrevisited

#CoMuseumsMoments Moving at the pace of Trust – change at a time of uncertainty with Lynn Scarff, Director National Museum of Ireland @nationalmuseumofireland , Ireland The CoMuseum is organised by @thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece @britishcouncileurope #comuseum2025 #thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece #museumsandhope #museumsrevisited

#CoMuseumsMoments Reclaiming the Museum: Solidarity, Crisis, and the Renewal of Institutional Imagination with Daniel Muzyczuk, Director Muzeum Sztuki @msnwarszawa , Poland The CoMuseum is organised by @thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece @britishcouncileurope #comuseum2025 #thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece #museumsandhope #museumsrevisited

#CoMuseumsMoments Enthusiasm, surprise and inspiration. Übersee-Museum Bremen – a workshop report with Dr. Wiebke Ahrndt, Director @Übersee-Museum Bremen @ueberseemuseum , Germany The CoMuseum is organised by @thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece @britishcouncileurope #comuseum2025 #thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece #museumsandhope #museumsrevisited

#CoMuseumsMoments Provocation by Karalyn Monteil, Head of Programmes & Stakeholders Outreach, Culture Sector, @unesco (France) The CoMuseum is organised by @thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece @britishcouncileurope #comuseum2025 #thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece #museumsandhope #museumsrevisited

#CoMuseumsMoments space of togetherness with Elina Kountouri @elina_kountouri , Director @neongreece , Organisation for Culture and Development D. Daskalopoulos, Greece The CoMuseum is organised by @thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece @britishcouncileurope #comuseum2025 #thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece #museumsandhope #museumsrevisited

#CoMuseumsMoments The Grit & Glitter, how asking the question “What If?” can inspire us to be more in times of turbulence with Sharon Ament, Director of London Museum, UK The CoMuseum is organised by @thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece @britishcouncileurope #comuseum2025 #thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece #museumsandhope #museumsrevisited

#CoMuseumsMoments Pessimism of the intellect versus optimism of the will by Dimitris Christopoulos, Professor of State and Legal Theory at the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University, Greece The CoMuseum is organised by @thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece @britishcouncileurope #comuseum2025 #thebenakimuseum #britishcouncilgreece #museumsandhope #museumsrevisited