It’s time for MuseumNext’s Museum Learning Summit, a major annual conference trusted by leading museums across the globe. Delegates are invited to join from anywhere for this virtual presentation format, which will remain on demand for 12 months.
Date: July 16 – 17, 2024
Format: Virtual
The Museum Learning Summit 2024 brings together those leading this work in museums around the world to explore innovative museum practices, highlighting play-based cultural experiences, digital heritage conservation, community engagement in prisons, authentic local storytelling, interdisciplinary STEM-art education, youth integration, decolonizing curricula, food-based initiatives, and family-centered programs, showcasing diverse and modern engagement strategies.
What to Expect
- New ideas and 2024’s big trends
- Speakers and live Q&As so you can find answers and get advice
- Tools and techniques to help you save time and energy
- Opportunities to connect with industry folks in the members area
Tickets
Choose from a variety of ticketing packages, from individual access to unlimited delegates within one organization. To make Museum Learning Summit more accessible to all, freelancers and students can purchase tickets at a discounted rate.
Find details on ticket info here.
Note: For those interested in attending “live,” presentations are scheduled in BST (London time), so be sure to plan accordingly.
Schedule Highlights
Empowered Evaluation: Programs, Educators, and Reflection
Reflection and evaluation are at the heart of great programming. It’s how we grow as educators, evolve our practice and deepen the experiences we create to engage others. Explore how the Museum of Australian Democracy supports the ongoing professional development of its Museum Educators in order to building knowledge, grow skills and instil self-reflection over time. Discover practical, inclusive tools for undertaking observations, targeting presenter techniques and promoting self-reflection in team members.
Children’s Boards: Learning from Children to Create Better Museums
Museum professionals can learn essential skills for their work from children. Celebrating failure, connecting fully with the present and with nature, finding abundance where others only see scarcity of resources, living constantly from play, not fearing risk and creating the future, adopting a caring mentality where everyone is welcome, attentive listening, being open to the unexpected and to your instincts, etc.
Band Together: A Consortium Model for Neurodiverse Programming
Authors of a practical handbook for sensory-friendly cultural programming share insights from their journey to connect with neurodiverse learners and describe how The Dallas Sensory Consortium, a pioneering partnership between cultural and clinical institutions, can serve as a model to empower others with similar goals.
Youth as Participatory Designers of Indigenous Mixed Reality Science Exhibits
Join us for a deep dive into how we can reimagine museum spaces through the lens of rightful presence, a justice-centered framework vital to engaging marginalized communities in museum spaces. Learn how we are using participatory co-design strategies to engage Indigenous youth and families in developing Indigenous perspective-centered science exhibits.
