What is the future of museums? Directors of ten of the world's leading museums address the issue

Kicking off is the What is a Museum? series of meetings conceived by Christian Greco to reflect on the future of museums and to rethink their role in the age of globalization and digitization. Ten directors of the world’s most prestigious museum institutions will meet with the director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin to outline the role and challenges of the future of museums, understood increasingly as a kind of laboratory of contemporaneity and not only as places for reconstruction and preservation of memory. Each meeting will feature one of the ten directors, for a total of ten meetings. It will start on Tuesday, May 9 at 6 p.m. with Barbara Jatta, director of the Vatican Museums; the meeting will take place in the conference room of the Egyptian Museum.

Research, digitization, education, inclusion, accessibility and heritage care are the topics on which leading international museums will be invited to discuss, accompanying the Egyptian Museum on a path of physical transformation and innovation, in view of its bicentennial, which will be celebrated in the fall of 2024.

All appointments will be free admission with reservations through Evenbrite. For English-language meetings, simultaneous translation into Italian will be available for the audience in the auditorium. Live streaming in the original language on the Egyptian Museum’s Facebook page and YouTube channel is also planned.

Following is the schedule of appointments.

May 9, 2023 Barbara Jatta (Vatican Museums)

May 26, 2023 Massimo Osanna (General Directorate of Museums)

September 26, 2023 Hermann Parzinger (Preussischer Kulturbesitz)

November 9, 2023 Miguel Falomir Faus (Prado)

January 17, 2024 Taco Dibbits (Rijksmuseum)

March 7, 2024 Anna-Vasiliki Karapanagiotou (National Archeological Museum, Athens)

May 9, 2024 Tristram Hunt (Victoria and Albert Museum)

September 10, 2024 Hartwig Fischer (British Museum)

November 7, 2024 Laurence des Cars (Louvre)

December 3, 2024 Hartmut Dorgerloh (Humboldt Forum)

What is the future of museums? Directors of ten of the world's leading museums address the issue

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