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Two global surveys from ICOM and @unesco reveal new insights and data regarding the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the cultural sector 🌏 We thank all museums and museum professionals for participa...

We've collected some of our favourite reinterpretations of the #IMD2020 poster. What a wonderful global celebration it's been! Thanks to all participants and museum lovers who championed #Museums4Equa...

The poster for #IMD2020 aims at representing #Museums4Equality through figures that are both similar and diverse ❇️ we’ve collected 35 different translations! Can you spot yours? ☀️

Happy International Museum Day! 🎉 This year we celebrate "Museums for Equality: Diversity and Inclusion". #IMD2020 #Museums4Equality ℹ️ imd.icom.museum ➖ ¡Feliz Día Internacional de los Museos! 🎉 Es...

#IMD2020 is just two weeks away! 😁✨ Museums worldwide are sharing their online activities on our interactive map, to mark with us the greatest annual celebration of museums. Take part in #Museums4Equ...

Facing #ClimateChange, there is an urgent need for international action and appropriate copyright laws to ensure that museums can preserve our cultural heritage ⚠️ World Intellectual Property Organiza...

In the context of the current global #covid_19 crisis, we are launching a special Call for Articles for ICOM’s online editorial space, #ICOMVoices We invite all ICOM members to share their experience...

Only 1 month to #IMD2020! What is your museum planning? 🎬 Visit our website to find materials and ideas to prepare for International Museum Day 2020! Link in bio 👆 #Museums4Equality

"Bold action is needed to address the ecological and social crises that humanity has caused. As stewards of the planet’s cultural and natural heritage, it is incumbent on museums to contribute to this...

The #COVID19 pandemic is threatening the livelihood of thousands of museum professionals around the globe. To advocate for an urgent response from governments and salvage museums, we need data. Help u...

On April 10, Dr. Peter Keller, Director General of ICOM, will participate among the speakers in the webinar “COVID-19 and museums: impact, innovations and planning for post-crisis”, co-organised with ...

Understanding that the priority is to ensure the health and economic safety of the populations affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, we express our concern regarding the future of #museums and the invalu...

On International Transgender Day of Visibility #TDOV, we support the work of @M_O_T_H_A in stimulating critical thinking on the (visual) history of trans people, still too little considered and repre...

Waiting for International Museum Day 2020, we are focusing this week on LGBTQAI rights and the role museums can play to promote inclusion and representation 👐 #Museums4Equality #IMD2020

During the ICOMxPechakucha night at #ICOMKyoto2019, @museoq shared with us its journey to become an ephemeral, ever-changing place reaching out to queer communities in Colombia, allowing them to re-wr...

Museums have a huge role in challenging narratives and educating the public to #FightRacism.👐 📸Last October, the ICOM training programme “Museums for reconciliation: communities, pedagogies and memori...

🌠International Museum Day 2020 is in 2 months! In these difficult times that have lead to museum closures and quarantines - how can museums use social media and digital technologies to reach their aud...

There is now an opportunity to consider restitution in a larger, more holistic context and understand how claims of restitution could provide the basis for relationship building that could support oth...

#tbt to #IMD2017 when @museowurthlarioja in Spain encouraged visitors to bring used shoes, a symbol of their personal journey and their experiences, to create a collaborative exhibit that was later do...

Los museos de base comunitaria tienen un gran valor en materia de derechos humanos, y paz, y desarrollo comunitario sostenible, especialmente en los contextos de #comunidadesindígenas y de minorías ét...