Thinking Through the Museum

The empty frames in Ukraine's museums - Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa Since 2014, Russian forces have looted hundreds of museums and galleries in occupied Ukraine, stealing at least 1.7 million works of art. Experts speak of a systematic criminal campaign against Ukraine’s artistic and cultural heritage

Congratulations to TTTM team member Michelle McGeough on her new exhibition Love Medicine! ✨💕✨💕✨💕✨

Love Medicine - MacKenzie Art Gallery Love Medicine, curated by Métis art historian Dr. Michelle McGeough, aims to create a space of recognition and community, offering an artistic embrace in response to the historical traumas inflicted by the settler nation-state on 2spirit/Indigiqueer bodies.

Children in Museums/Museums in Children: Inspiring Approaches, Methodologies, and Experiences

11am-1:00pm EST
May 18, 2026
online (register below)

This year, we are going to celebrate International Museum Day on 18 May in a very special way. The official theme is "Museums Uniting a Divided World" and there are no better conciliators and unifiers in the world than children.

Cultural Inquiry invites some of the professionals currently leading the renewal of child-related museology to share their vision of how this is radically transforming the way professionals are working with children in museums. We will be joined by internationally renowned experts who are changing the way museums work with children, such as Sharon Shaffer, Nicola Wallis, Monica Patterson, and Nicole Cromartie.

In this free online panel, we will discuss, among other things:
· How are professionals' perceptions of the role children play in museums today changing?
· What has caused this shift towards a more democratic model in which children have an increasing capacity to make decisions that directly affect the museum (not only its content and programming)?
· What role has the emergence of a whole theoretical trend (critical child museology, for example) that is firmly committed to this change played in this shift?
· What implications does this have for the daily practice of professionals in their relationship with both their respective work teams and their local communities (indigenous communities, for example)?
· What challenges (both internal and external to the museum) lie ahead to develop this trend and this vision further?
· What role does AI play in the way children and museums relate to each other?

Please, book the event in your agenda.
18 May 2026
Time: 11 am EST/EDT/4 pm BST/5 pm CEST
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Children in Museums/Museums in Children: Inspiring Approaches, Methodologies and Experiences. 18 May 2026. International Museum Day After registering, you will receive a link with the Zoom invitation so that you can participate. Your data included on this form will be processed in accordance with the European Union's GDPR regulations.

What can art and artists bring to researching the origins and biographies of objects? How do they shed new light on – or even unsettle – existing approaches to such questions? Proposing the new term – artistic provenance research – the contributors to this innovative book illuminate art’s capacity to expand provenance research in critical and provocative ways.

Join Editors Tal Adler and Sharon Macdonald to discuss their new book Artistic Provenance Research. Moderated by Dr. Cara Krmpotich, the conversation will touch on the urgent concerns in contemporary heritage research and practice such as colonialism and decolonization, ownership and art-markets, institutionalization, human remains, return and restitution.

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TTTM Curates — Affiliate Simone Cambridge takes us inside “it comes from the head: A Straw Heritage”, an exhibition that was on view at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas (NAGB) from September 2024 to February 2025.

The exhibition celebrates straw craft through contemporary interpretations by Bahamian artists, drawing inspiration from the writings of Cambridge’s own grandmother, Thelma Eula Cambridge’s 1968 volume “Growing Functional Arts in the Bahamas”, while highlighting the deep connections between straw work and Bahamian histories of labour, migration, identity, colonialism, and cultural tradition.

Featuring work by: Tamika Galanis, Anina Major, Jodi Minnis, Averia Wright

The exhibition was curated by Simone Cambridge and supported through the NLS Curatorial and Art Writing Fellowship.

Watch the full presentation and tour here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLaplTENSus

TTTM Curates — Affiliate Simone Cambridge takes us inside “it comes from the head: A Straw Heritage”, an exhibition that was on view at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas (NAGB) from September 2024 to February 2025. The exhibition celebrates straw craft through contemporary interpretations by Bahamian artists, drawing inspiration from the writings of Cambridge’s own grandmother, Thelma Eula Cambridge’s 1968 volume “Growing Functional Arts in the Bahamas”, while highlighting the deep connections between straw work and Bahamian histories of labour, migration, identity, colonialism, and cultural tradition. Featuring work by: Tamika Galanis, Anina Major, Jodi Minnis, Averia Wright The exhibition was curated by Simone Cambridge and supported through the NLS Curatorial and Art Writing Fellowship. Click the link in bio to watch the full presentation and tour!

Major protests take place at Venice Biennale previews More than 200 people attended a protest outside the Israeli pavilion, while the activists groups P***y Riot and FEMEN led a demonstration at Russia’s

Hundreds Protest Israel’s “Genocide Pavilion” at Venice Biennale Activists led by the Art Not Genocide Alliance blocked the entrance to Israel’s pavilion while waving Palestine flags on the first day of exhibition previews.

Call for Papers!

“Echoes of Conflict, Paths to Peace“

Dates: October 27–28, 2026

Host Venue: War Childhood Museum, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Annual Conference Annual Conference Past conference “Museum Professionalism and Ethics in Challenging Times”October 24-26, 2024 | Yerevan, Armenia The joint conference organized by the International Committee on Ethical Dilemmas (IC ETHICS), ICOM’s International Committee for the Training of Personnel (ICTOP),I...

5 Resistance Museums Recall the Bravery of ‘Ordinary People’ For many visitors to these European museums, the acts of those who opposed Na**sm and Fascism have become newly relevant.