Museum Ideas 2015 International Conference | UK

The 2015 edition of the International Conference Museum Ideas will take place at the Museum of London, UK, on 1 October.  This leading international conference presents a valuable opportunity for professional inquiry and development with a packed schedule of progressive sessions from leading thinkers in the global museum community. Museum Ideas 2015 is entitled "Museums Re-imagined in the Era of Participatory Culture". Museum Ideas attracts a truly international crowd – the 2014 conference attracted a global mix of delegates from 24 countries, including the US, Japan, Mexico, Korea, Iceland, Spain, Germany, Norway, France, Sweden and China. Confirmed speakers at Museum Ideas 2015 include Kaywin Feldman, Director and President of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and current board chair of the American Alliance of Museums; Rose Hiscock is Director of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney; Victoria Suzman, Project Cataloguer at the British Museum; Synthia Griffin, Curator of Community and Regeneration Programmes at Tate Modern, Daryl Karp, Director of the Museum of Australian Democracy; and Peter Higgin, Enrichment Director at the ground-breaking theatre company Punchdrunk. Further speakers will be announced soon. For additional information about Museum Ideas 2015, please visit http://www.museum-id.com/event-detail.asp?id=437