Explore Our Digital Resources

9 April 2020

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We want to stay connected with you through these difficult times. As you conduct research from home or are looking for curatorial resources, explore our online offerings to further your professional development. Education encourages the questioning of existing practices and the promotion of evolution in the field of contemporary art.

Contribute to our Forum

During this time of reflection, CIMAM makes available to all its members an online space to debate the main issues regarding museum management and to propose topics to generate debate among all the professionals who are part of this committee. We encourage you to submit advice, questions, exchange ideas and suggest topics for debate.

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Art Museums in Times of Coronavirus

This week we propose a conversation between Bartomeu Marí (MALI) and Nicolás Gómez (MAC Lima) where they have shared personal reflections on the role of museums today and the changes brought about by the COVID-19. Read here.


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Watch our Talks

Browse the complete collection of video-recorded Annual Conference presentations since 2012:

Patricia Falguières, speaker at CIMAM 2015 Annual Conference in Tokyo titled How Global Can Museums Be?

Debating on museums: What is the question?


Ismail Ertürk, speaker at CIMAM 2012 Annual Conference in Istanbul titled Museums Beyond the Crises.

Mapping the Distance of Museums and Culture from the Vortex of Financial Crisis


Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, speaker at CIMAM 2016 Annual Conference in Barcelona titled The Museum and Its Responsibilities.

The Circus Mistress and Mastering the Ceremony — A lecture


Stephen Wright, speaker at CIMAM 2013 Annual Conference in Rio de Janeiro titled New Dynamics in Museums: Curator, Artwork, Public, Governance.

Making Way for Usership


Hannah Mathews, speaker at CIMAM 2019 Annual Conference in Stockholm titled The 21st Century Art Museum: Is Context Everything?

Performativity: Knowing your Context


Jörg Heiser, speaker at CIMAM 2018 Annual Conference in Stockholm titled The Museum in Transition.

The Curator as Scapegoat


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Read our Publications

Read CIMAM's conference proceedings since 2005, gathering the presentations of speakers under titles such as:

The Force of Hunger
Marina Garcés, speaker at CIMAM 2016 Annual Conference in Barcelona titled The Museum and Its Responsibilities.

“Time to Unlearn”: Urgency and Practical. Intelligence in the Southeast Asian Museum
Patrick D. Flores, speaker at CIMAM 2017 Annual Conference in Singapore titled The Roles and Responsibilities of Museums in Civil Society.

Big Data
Michelle Kuo, speaker at CIMAM 2018 Annual Conference in Stockholm titled The Museum in Transition.

Why so many Walls?
Wesley Enoch, speaker at CIMAM 2019 Annual Conference in Sydney titled The 21st Century Art Museum: Is Context Everything?

Private to Public, Public to Private: What Are the New Professional Practices?
Luiz Augusto Teixeira de Freitas, speaker at CIMAM 2014 Annual Conference in Doha titled Museums in Progress: Public interest, private resources?