Category: Exhibitions

Today, the challenge of a sustainable accessibility and re-appropriation of content is crucial for museums.

Just bringing down museum walls is no longer enough to transmit cultural values and knowledge. Museums and cultural institutions need to embrace and advocate a  policy of total openness of their collections with no limits on space, time, use and ownership.

From the opening of data to the enhancement of heritage in the age of open APIs and artificial intelligence, museums are looking for guidance through these different stages so that tomorrow’s accessible heritage is usable and relevant.

The conference was founded in 2000 by Corinne Estrada, CEO of Agenda cultural communications agency and Damien Whitmore, then-Director of Communication at TATE.
Their objective was to offer a high calibre networking and knowledge building opportunity to top arts professionals.
In its 19 years, Communicating the Arts has attracted more than 6,500 delegates from 40+ countries in 20 global cities.

Event in Lausanne 22-24 June 2020 | Programme PDF

Theme : The Art of Placemaking

Theatres, operas, festivals, galleries, heritage organisations, historical Monuments and museums have the power to transform their local areas into lively, beautiful and resilient communities with arts at their core.

Placemaking is a call to action for the arts world to capitalise on local assets, inspiration and potential to create public spaces that promote good health, stimulate local economies and lead to increased creative activity, innovation, diversity and civic engagement.

This requires carefully constructed and managed partnerships between the public, commercial, and not-for-profit sectors. How constitutive members collaborate with each other, across institutions and disciplines; with local communities and their changing demographics; with city stakeholders; with diverse funders; and with other urban agendas is crucial to their success.

At Communicating the Arts Lausanne we will share best practices and develop new understandings through a series of interactive case studies and conversations about the growing contribution that cultural organisations are making to create better cities.

We invite inspiring cultural leaders and experts from within and outside the arts to hear from international trends toward placemaking, learn from their mistake and discuss how cultural organisations can best serve their cities.

Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac

How is a collection dedicated to non-European cultures and arts formed? What roadmap should a national museum at the crossroads of fine arts, ethnology and modern art follow? We take a look behind the scenes of an institution through twenty years of acquisitions