Program

To view the preliminary program click here.

To view the parallel and poster session lists, click here.

The Conference Program, is based on the theme Interesting times: New roles for collections, and the sub-themes below.

Conference themes

Collections for communities: Using collections to tell the stories of all our communities. Includes use of collections to strengthen indigenous communities
Collections for cultural diplomacy: The role of collections in international and local diplomacy (including touring exhibitions, repatriation and restitution issues)
Collections and commerce: Leveraging collections to create revenue streams and support (e.g. sponsorship, friends groups, retail, catering, commercial marketing, intellectual property)
Collections in peril: War, terrorism, financial crisis, natural disasters
Interpreting and showcasing collections (through exhibition design, building architecture, new technologies)
Communicating collections: Understanding, researching and evaluating exhibitions, programs, audiences and non-attenders; new approaches to marketing and communications, including new media
A national strategy for Australia’s museums?
Collections for creativity: Using collections to drive creativity, for life-long learning, for healthy communities, to open minds
Using collections to preserve languages, intangible heritage and the ephemeral
Using collections for research: Includes ongoing and new roles for natural history collections; taxonomic research; new or unexpected research topics and methods
Fellow travellers: Organisations collecting outside the museum (e.g. Universities, hospitals, performing arts centres, corporations)
City museums: The living metropolis
A position of trust: The evolving roles of trustees, governors and boards
Don’t forget the present: Contemporary collecting
Collections and education (including the use of collections to support the national curriculum; collections and the digital education revolution; best museum education practice; museums in a box and other creative strategies for education collections)
Conservation and significance
Public programs, theatre and performance
Museums and environmental sustainability
Keeping up, or leading from the front? New technologies

For the latest information on speakers go to the guest speakers and speakers pages.