Eighth International Conference on The Inclusive Museum
- 2015 Special Focus: Museums as Civic Spaces
- 7–9 August 2015
- National Science Museum, New Delhi, India
Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Eighth International Conference on The Inclusive Museum.
Countries represented.
The inclusive museum is an aspirational civic space that is created and recreated based on the context and relevance to diverse stakeholders. It liberates museums and communities from legacies, enables a first voice, and empowers people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds with a sense of place and multiple identities. The challenge is also to address intersectionality across cultural borders through appropriate research, development and capacity building. This must be at all levels of engaged partners from curators, educators, conservators to directors and trustees. Connecting collections and communities is critical.
The Inclusive Museum Knowledge Community continues to build on the lessons learnt and ongoing discursive crossings to promote for posterity the museum for diverse peoples irrespective of their backgrounds. India on the cusp of an unprecedented museum development is the host to the Eighth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum. As the world’s largest democracy it is also well known for its cultural and language diversity. This diversity is embedded in the nation’s Constitution. A vibrant civil society such as India mandates relevant and responsive cultural institutions, especially inclusive museums.
The Eighth International Conference on The Inclusive Museum featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Emeritus Professor, Ancient Indian History, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Director, Statens Museum for Kunst/National Art Gallery of Denmark
Professor; High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India
Curator, Remember Bhopal Museum, India; Journalist, The Washington Post in India
Director General, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (formerly Prince of Wales Museum of Western India), Mumbai; Head of the Postgraduate (Diploma) Program, Museology & Conservation, University of Mumbai, India
Painter; Head of Learning Practice and Research, Tate Gallery, London, UK
Urban Planner
Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Conservation Architect; Risk Management Consultant; UNESCO Chair Professor, Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan; Senior Advisor to the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS); President and Executive Committee member, ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Risk Preparedness and ICOMOS-India
Artist; Independent Curator
Museum Director; Lecturer, Museum Management, Economics Department, Cattolica University, Milan, Italy
Chairperson, The Sustainability Knowledge Community; Editor, The Sustainability Journal Collection
For each conference, a small number of Graduate Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for graduate students at this stage in their academic careers. The 2015 Graduate Scholar Awardees are listed below.
University of Bologna, Italy
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Department of National Museums, Sri Lanka
Ambedkar University, New Delhi, India