The museum world is on the cusp of profound transformation — and the future demands imagination, courage, and clarity of vision. The Museum Forecast Summit brings together leading thinkers, creators, and changemakers to explore what lies ahead for museums in 2026 and beyond.
Date: December 17 – 18, 2025
Location: Online
Across two days, you’ll hear from voices redefining the role of museums in a rapidly changing world — from children’s museum leaders reimagining scale as strength to cultural visionaries calling for resistance, care, and collective imagination in the face of global instability.
Sessions will delve into emerging trends such as AI-enabled curation, immersive distribution networks, intersectional learning, and futures literacy, while exploring how museums can become more psychologically accessible, ethically grounded, and community-driven. You’ll gain insight from pioneers who are reshaping collections, leadership, learning, and storytelling for a new era of social, technological, and environmental change.
What to expect
- Hear from global changemakers as they share the signals, insights, and emerging forces set to shape museums in 2026 and beyond.
- Explore bold new perspectives on what museums can become, with speakers challenging assumptions and offering fresh definitions, models, and ways of working.
- Get practical strategies and honest advice, with live Q&As that create space to ask questions about the real-world challenges your museum is facing.
- Learn from forward-thinking, real-world examples that show how museums of all sizes are experimenting, adapting to disruption, and building more resilient futures.
- Build essential future-ready skills—from cultivating futures literacy and designing for cognitive accessibility to applying AI, game design, and immersive approaches in museum practice.
- Gain insights into the future museum workforce, including how to support emerging professionals and foster healthier, more sustainable organizational cultures.
- Discover new approaches to collections, ethics, access, and global sharing. Including how AI may transform stewardship, interpretation, and decision-making.
See more details and register at the link below.
