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UNESCO online debate: “Reflections on the future of museums”.
18. mars 2021 // 14:00 - 17:00
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the fundamental role that museums play in the resilience of societies. However, it has brought unprecedented challenges to the international museum community, confronting them with critical questions and decisions about their future. As we face the challenges of a world radically changed by the impact of COVID-19, it will be crucial for museums to adapt and reinvent themselves.
This online debate will provide an opportunity to discuss the necessary transformation of museum institutions, the conditions and environment necessary for them to remain fundamental places for meeting, sharing and cultural mediation.
Mr. Ernesto Ottone R, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Culture will open the discussions, with the President of the International Council of Museums, Mr. Alberto Garlandini. The debate will then focus on two high-level panels, one on lessons learned and lessons learned from the pandemic, the other on how museums envisage the future in the post-Covid period.
The list of panelists:
– Tristram Hunt, Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum (London),
– Deborah Lynn Mack, Director of the National Museum of African Art (Washington),
– Laurella Yssap-Rinçon, Director of ACTe Memorial (Guadeloupe),
– Xudong Wang, Director of Palace Museum (Beijing),
– Emmanuel Kasarherou, President of Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (Paris),
– Juliana Restrepo, Director of the National Museum of Colombia (Bogota),
– Antonio Saborit, Director of the National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico City),
– Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim, Executive Director of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (Cairo),
– Barbarian Jatta, Director of the Vatican Museum (Rome),
– Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the Ermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg),
– Hamady Boucum, Director of the Museum of Black Civilizations (Dakar)
– Barbara Helwing, Director of Museum of Ancient Near East, (Berlin).
The first panel on the concrete repercussions of the sanitary crisis on museums will be moderated by Laurella Yssap-Rinçon, Director of Memorial ACTe (Guadeloupe). It will be composed of Xudong Wang, Juliana Restrepo, Tristram Hunt, Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim, and Barbara Helwing.
The second panel will discuss how museums are meeting the challenges of the present and shaping the future of their institutions. It will be moderated by Emmanuel Kasarhérou, President of the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum. The panelists are Antonio Saborit, Hamady Boucum, Barbara Jatta, Mikhail Piotrovski and Deborah Lynn Mack,
