The Seventeenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum is dedicated to exploring the future role of museums, with a particular focus on how they can become more inclusive.
The Seventeenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum covers topics such as:
- Defining museum stakeholders and measuring participation
- Visitor diversity in the inclusive museum
- Multilingualism: accessibility for small languages and cultures
- The politics of heritage: national, regional, ethnic, diasporic and first nation identities
- Disability access in the museum
- Gender and sexual orientation in the museum
- Public trust: re-establishing the bases of ‘authority’
- Competing cultures: high, folk, popular, techno-scientific
- Pedagogy as presentation or dialogue: how the museum relates to its visitors
- Defining the ‘education’ and ‘communications’ roles of museums
- Competing pleasures: museums against or with ‘entertainment’ and ‘edutainment’
- The ubiquitous museum: towards the anywhere anytime learning resource
- Sponsorship and philanthropy: logics and logistics
- Cross connections: with schools, with universities
- Memberships: changing roles and demographics
- The economics of admissions
- Government stakeholders (local, state, national, transnational): museums in politics and navigating government funding and policies
- Voluntarism and professionalism: calibrating the mix