Best Practices Releases

• CIMAM Announces Three Recipients of the 2024 Outstanding Museum Practice Award

  

  Istanbul Museum of Modern Art (Turkey), the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Art in Kyiv, (Ukraine) have been named OMPA 2024 winners for their progressive models and practices that can inspire museums worldwide.

• UN Climate Change Partners with Global Visual Arts Sector to Increase Climate Action

  

  UN Climate Change News, 19 April 2024 – UN Climate Change announced today that the global Art Charter for Climate Action (ACCA) will join its efforts to unite the arts and entertainment sectors in transformative climate action. The announcement was made at The Hope Forum held during the 60th Venice Biennale international art exhibition.

• Open Call for Nominations: CIMAM Outstanding Museum Practice Award 2024

  

  CIMAM seeks to recognize Outstanding Museum Practices that shape the future of modern and contemporary art museums. The nomination process will be open from March 18 to August 30, 2024.

• The CIMAM Award for Outstanding Museum Practices 2023 recognizes the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá

  

  CIMAM's OMPA 2023 recipient is "CHAGRES: Nomadic Residencies Program" by the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá. The CIMAM Award for Outstanding Museum Practices recognizes exceptional practices around the world that champion innovation, accessibility, public exchange, and sustainability within the modern and contemporary art museum sector.

• Uniting the visual arts sector in taking rapid, ambitious, and meaningful action on the climate and nature crisis.

  

  22 September 2023. CIMAM joins Art Charter for Climate Action, an alliance committed to developing a charter that aligns the global art sector with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the goals of the United Nations Paris Agreement.

• How Modern and Contemporary Art Museums are Responding to Sustainable Development Goals

  

  PR 18 May, 2023 – CIMAM, the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art, announces the incorporation of social and economic aspects of sustainability into its Toolkit on Environmental Museum Practices. This significant update is the result of a study led by the CIMAM’s Working Group on Sustainability and Ecology in Museum Practice.

• Outstanding Museum Practice Award Winners 2022

  

  The CIMAM Board announces three museums as recipients of the second edition of the Outstanding Museum Practices Award during the CIMAM 2022 Annual Conference in Palma de Mallorca, Spain

• A set of Ethical Clauses of Governance to protect and support museums and their staff

  

  These clauses are intended to address the growing vulnerabilities museums face in relation to interference, increasingly political, from their ‘Founders’ or ‘Governing Bodies’ which can undermine the Museum’s mission and values and their ability to operate with the curatorial independence required to create an open space in civil society.

• INTERCOM and CIMAM introduce the Museum Watch Governance Management Project

  

  PR 3 May 2022. INTERCOM and CIMAM introduce the Museum Watch Governance Management Project as a special ICOM initiative to help the museum community address management challenges more effectively.

• CIMAM's Toolkit on Environmental Sustainability in Museum Practice

  

  PR 6 July 2021. CIMAM's Toolkit on Environmental Sustainability in Museum Practice.

• CIMAM acknowledges the Queens Museum with the Outstanding Museum Practices Award 2021

  

  PR 9 November 2021. CIMAM acknowledges the Queens Museum, New York, with the Outstanding Museum Practices Award 2021

• CIMAM recognizes Outstanding Museum Practices in Times of Global Crisis.

  

  PR 11 May 2021. CIMAM recognizes Outstanding Museum Practices in Times of Global Crisis.

• CIMAM Advocates for Museums for Modern and Contemporary Art

  

  PR 9 July 2020. CIMAM Advocates for Museums for Modern and Contemporary Art at a time of World Crisis.

• Precautions for Museums during COVID-19 Pandemic

  

  PR 28 April 2020. Precautions for Museums during COVID-19 Pandemic.

• Outstanding Museum Practices in a Time of Global Crisis

  

  PR 24 April 2020. Outstanding Museum Practices in a Time of Global Crisis.

• CIMAM Opens Nominations for the 2025 Outstanding Museum Practice Award

  

  CIMAM announces the Call for Nominations for the fifth edition of the Outstanding Museum Practice Award (OMPA) 2025, an international recognition of the incredible work being done in modern and contemporary art museums worldwide. Deadline for submissions: June 27, 2025