CIMAM Connects: Contemporary Art Museum Evolution and Social History

Join the next CIMAM Connects meeting on Thursday, April 11, 2024, to discuss contemporary museum practices with fellow CIMAM members from around the world.

Please verify the correct time in your time zone and join to expand your global network!

CIMAM Connects is a new series of participant-led online sessions focused on peer-to-peer learning. These sessions are designed to facilitate networking and knowledge sharing among CIMAM members and encourage participants to discuss challenges facing modern and contemporary art museums and share inspiring solutions.

The theme "Contemporary Art Museum Evolution and Social History" is proposed for the next session to facilitate a first discussion. Still, participants may choose to discuss other topics of greater interest to them.

Contemporary Art Museum Evolution and Social History.

Discuss strategies for shaping the future of museums by emphasizing the intersection of collections, social history, and decolonial perspectives.

📅 Schedule for Thursday, April 11, 2024

• 🕖 7:00 Warsaw, Poland (CEST)
• 🕚 7:00 Cape Town, South Africa, Africa (SAST)
• 🕥 10:30 Bengaluru, India (IST)
• 🕐 13:00 Hong Kong, Singapore, Manila (HKT)
• 🕒 15:00 Sydney, Australia (AEST)
• 🕙 22:00 Los Angeles, USA (PDT)
• 🕚 23:00 México City, Mexico (CDT)

Register here: Login at CIMAM Members Only

The networking session will last 1 hour, and participants are expected to:

1. Login at CIMAM Members Only. Introduce your username (email) and password, to join the discussion. Should you forget your password, you can generate a new password easily.
   
2. Introduce themselves briefly (15 mins). Include information like name, role, museum, or institution, and a brief highlight of the topic to be discussed.
   
3. Group Discussions (30 mins). The participants will be divided into small groups of five to discuss the proposed topic. Each participant will be encouraged to share their point of view on the topic and discuss common challenges and possible solutions. Later, one of the participants can be selected as the spokesperson to share the ideas discussed in the small groups, when everyone gathers in the central room again.
   
4. Open Floor Discussion (15 mins). The group reconvenes, and the spokespersons are invited to summarize some of the ideas contributed by each small group, and all participants are invited to share additional thoughts. Participants are invited to propose topics for the next session.

Register here: Login at CIMAM Members Only