MuseumNext Dublin - 2016

18–20 April 2016

www.museumnext.com

Dublin, 18–20 April 2016

Welcome to Dublin, we are so pleased to be here in this historic year of centenary celebrations.

The museums and arts venues of Dublin have been so open and welcoming we have enjoyed making new contacts, meeting old friends and working with long standing MuseumNext supporters. The cultural community in Dublin has been overwhelmingly supportive and we hope you enjoy visiting the galleries, museums, arts venues and the city at large over the next few days.

A huge thank you goes out to our conference speakers, workshop leaders, sponsors, exhibitors, partners and appreciate each and every delegate who has taken the time out of their busy schedule to dedicate three days to exploring new ideas and questioning what is next for museums. We are hugely indebted to our volunteers who have generously given their time to help the smooth running over the next few days - thank you!

Dublin is an ever-changing, vibrant city with a thriving cultural scene, steeped in cultural heritage, we do hope you’ll have the chance to really experience the city while you are here and enjoy all it has to offer.

1. National Gallery of Ireland Clare Street, Merrion Square, Dublin 2 nationalgallery.ie 2. Board Room and Lavery Room (entrance next to National Gallery Ireland entrance) 5 Clare Street, Merrion Square, Dublin 2 nationalgallery.ie 3. Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland Society House, 63 Merrion Square, Dublin 2

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4. Science Gallery Dublin Naughton Institute, Dublin, Pearse St, Dublin 2, Ireland

7. Temple Bar Gallery 5 - 9 Temple Bar, Dublin 2

10. The Little Museum of Dublin 15 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin

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5. Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane Charlemont House, Parnell Square North, Dublin 1

8. The LAB Gallery 1 Foley St, Dublin 1, Ireland

11. Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin 8

www.hughlane.ie 6. Epic Ireland The CHQ Building, Custom House Quay, Dublin 1

www.dublincityartsoffice. ie/the-lab/exhibitions 9. Chester Beatty Library Dublin Castle, Dublin 2 www.cbl.ie

www.imma.ie 12. Mansion House Dawson Street, Dublin 2

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Dublin, 18–20 April 2016

14.00-16.00

TOUR & TALK: Temple Bar Gallery and Studio

14.00-14.45

TOUR: Library and Archive Collections at the National Gallery of Ireland Meet outside no. 90 Merrion Square

Day 1, Monday 18 April

14.00-16.00

TOUR: Epic Ireland – Hard Hat Tour

14.00-14.30

PRESENTATION: The Added Value of Inclusive Programming Lecture Hall, Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland

The first day of the conference takes place in various locations across Dublin city centre with tours, panels and presentations, workshops and events. You will have pre selected your activity and will have received your own personal schedule for the day. Below is an overview of all events taking place, please take a look at the website for more information on each event.

14.30-16.30

WORKSHOP: Wikipedia Editathon Board Room, 5 Clare Street, attached to the National Gallery of Ireland

14.30-15.00

PRESENTATION: Showcasing Techniques Lavery Room, 5 Clare Street, attached to the National Gallery of Ireland

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10.00-17.00

Registration – Open at National Gallery Ireland in the atrium throughout the day

14.30-15.30

PANEL: Storytelling in a Digital Age Lecture Hall, Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland

10.00-10.45

OUR: Treasures from the National Gallery’s Work on Paper Collection T National Gallery of Ireland meet by registration

14.30-15.30

PRESENTATION: Innovative Practice and the Creative Europe Programme Workshop Room, Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland

10.45-11.30

OUR: Conservation at the National Gallery of Ireland T National Gallery of Ireland atrium by registration

14.45-15.30

TOUR: Conservation at the National Gallery of Ireland Meet in the National Gallery of Ireland atrium by registration

11.00-11.45 TOUR: Tour of current displays and exhibitions in the National Gallery of Ireland National Gallery of Ireland atrium by registration

15.00-16.00

OUR: House and Collections of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland T Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland

15.00-17.00

PANEL: Museums of the Future National Gallery Ireland in the Lecture Hall

15.00-16.30

TOUR+TALK: Project 20/20 at the Lab Gallery

15.00-15.45

TOUR: Current Displays and Exhibitions in the National Gallery of Ireland

15.00-16.15

TOUR: Exploring Irish Art National Gallery of Ireland – meet in atrium by registration desk

15.30-17.00

ANEL: Touring Exhibitions: Learning from the Past and Looking at the Future P Science Gallery Dublin

11.00-13.00

PANEL: A Spirited History at National Gallery Ireland National Gallery Ireland in the Lecture Hall

11.30-12.30 WORKSHOP: Scan Objects, Write Stories and Engage Visitor Groups of All Ages Board Room, 5 Clare Street, next to National Gallery Ireland 11.30-12.15

URATOR’S TOUR (EXHIBITON): Pathos of Distance: Sarah Pierce in C Collaboration with the ESB Centre for the Study of Irish Art National Gallery of Ireland, meet in the NGI atrium by registration

12.00-13.00

TOUR: House and Collections of the Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland

12.00-13.00

WORKSHOP: Future Thinking: Finding Answers to Difficult Questions Workshop room at Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland

15.30-16.15

PANEL: ANU Productions and the National Museum of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland in Lecture Hall

12.00-13.00

PRESENTATION: FC Museum Lecture Hall, Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland

15.30-16.00

TOUR: Chester Beatty Library Exhibitions

12.00-13.00

WORKSHOP: Museum Board Governance and Succession Planning Lavery Room, 5 Clare Street, next to National Gallery of Ireland entrance

16.00-18.00

EVENT + PANEL: The Creative Museum Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle

12.30-14.30

PRESENTATION + WORKSHOP: If This, Then That Board Room, 5 Clare Street next to the National Gallery of Ireland

17.00-18.00

EVENT: Networking For First Time Delegates The Little Museum of Dublin

17.00-18.00

Coaches from Merrion Square to Irish Museum of Modern Art

12.30-13.00

PRESENTATION: How To Make A MOOC Lecture Hall, Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland

18.00

Coach from Chester Beatty Library to Irish Museum of Modern Art

13.00-14.30

ORKSHOP: A Cross Cultural Survival Guide: Succeeding as a Museum W Professional in Another Country Lavery Room, 5 Clare Street, next to National Gallery of Ireland entrance

18.30-20.00

EVENING RECEPTION: Irish Museum of Modern Art

19.00-19.30

TOUR: Patrick Hennessy at IMMA

19.30-20.00

TOUR: The Passion of Carol Rama at IMMA

13.00-15.00

RESENTATION: Heads Up! Designing Social Play in Museums Without Getting P Lost in the Device Lecture Hall, National Gallery of Ireland

13.00-13.30

PRESENTATION: Digital Transformation: Theory and Practice Lecture Hall, Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland

13.00-14.30

WORKSHOP: Developing More Playful Places Workshop Room, Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland

13.30-15.00

TOUR: Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane

13.30-14.00

PRESENTATION: The Dodo Roadshow Lecture Hall, Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland

Dublin, 18–20 April 2016

Day 2, Tuesday 19 April

Day 3, Wednesday 20 April

Mansion House

Mansion House

The second and third days of the conference take place at the Mansion House, an events space and residence of Dublin’s Lord Mayor.

9.15-10.00

9.15-17.00

Registration – If you weren’t able to register on Monday, please pick up your delegate pass and bag. The pass ensures your entry to MuseumNext events.

Main Hall 10.00-10.15

Welcome

10.15-11.45

PANEL: AAA. Attracting All Ages – Museums for Everyone Chair: Sarah Glennie, Director, Irish Museum of Modern Art

10.15-10.35

Ready for Prime Time: Older Adults Make Their Mark at MoMA F rancesca Rosenberg, Director of Community, Access and School Programs,The Museum of Modern Art, New York

10.35-10.55 Takeover Day – Why Giving Young People a Role in a Museum Matters Dea Birkett, Creative Director, Kids In Museums

10.55-11.15

The Mythical Millennial in Museums Susan Evans McClure, Director, Smithsonian Food History Programs

11.15-11.45 Discussion, questions from the audience 11.45-12.30

KEYNOTE: Burning Man: Building Inclusive, Collaborative, Creative Culture Marian Goodell, CEO, Burning Man

12.30-13.30

LUNCH – buffet served at the Mansion House

13.30-15.00

PANEL: Museums and Communities Chair: Lynn Scarff, Director, Science Gallery Dublin

13.30-13.50 Prototyping Places for People, Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts Deborah Cullinan, CEO, Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, San Fransisco, USA

13.50-14.10 Tate for All? The Development of the Social Model Synthia Griffin, Curator, Regeneration and Community Parnerships, Tate Modern, UK

14.10-14.30 Connecting Up Wellington’s Nationally Significant Institutions Dr Sarah Rusholme, Wellington Museums Trust, New Zealand

14.30-15.00 Discussion, questions from the audience

15.00-15.30 PRESENTATION: What is the Tomorrow We Are Talking About

Luiz Alberto Oliveira, Chief Curator, Museum of Tomorrow, Brazil

Alexandre Fernandes, Director of Audience Development, Museum of Tomorrow, Brazil 15.30-16.00

Break – light refreshments

16.00-17.00

PANEL: Valuing People Within Museums

16.00-16.20 Inside Out, How Staff Engagement Creates Museum Success Eleanor Appleby, staff engagement and communications consultant, Jane Wentworth Associates, UK

16.20-16.40 Expanding Museum People Through Social Media Practice Monica O Montgomery, Co Founder of MuseumHue / #MuseumWorkersSpeak and Action Director of LatimerNOW, USA

16.40-17.00 Discussion, questions from the audience 17.00-17.15

Thanks and Wrap Up

19.00 – 10.00

Evening Reception, Science Gallery Dublin After Dark

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Registration – If you weren’t able to register on Monday, please pick up your delegate pass and bag. The pass ensures your entry to MuseumNext events.

Main Hall 10.00-10.15

Welcome

10.15-11.30

In Conversation with David Fleming David Fleming, Director, National Museums Liverpool, UK Jasper Visser, Senior Partner, Vissch+Stam, The Netherlands

11.30-12.15

KEYNOTE: Building the Global Science Gallery Network Michael John Gorman, CEO, Science Gallery International

12.15-13.15

Lunch – buffet served at the Mansion House

13.15 – 14.45

PANEL: Future Finance Chair: Matt Caines, Editor Guardian Culture Professional Network, UK

13.15-13.35 Revenue and Relevance: How to Make Money Without Selling Out Jim Broughton, Head of International Engagement, The Natural History Museum, UK

13.35-13.55 To charge or not to charge: Museums and the Admission Dilemma Silvia Filippini Fantoni, Director of Interpretation, Media and Evaluation, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA

13.55-14.15 Why Corporations Invest in Museums Jessica Litwin, Senior Account Manager at Boster Group, UK 14.15-14.45 Discussion, Questions from the Audience 14.45-15.15

PRESENTATION: What’s Next for the Google Cultural Institute James Davis, Project Manager, Google Cultural Institute

15.15-15.45

Break – tea, coffee, biscuits

15.45 – 16.45

Closing conversation

16.45-17.00

Thanks and Conference Ends

18.00

Pub Crawl Casual gathering to experience Dublin’s nightlife.

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Tuesday 19 April

Monday 18 April 10-5pm

18.30-20.00

10.00-10.15

The Mythical Millennial in Museums

Registration

EVENING RECEPTION: Irish Museum of Modern Art

Welcome

Susan Evans McClure, Director, Smithsonian Food History Programs, National Museum of American History

Coaches will be picking up from Merrion Square to take delegates to the Irish Museum of Modern Art between 17.00-18.00. A coach will pick up delegates from the Chester Beatty Library at 18.00.

10.15-11.45

There will be complimentary wine and beer, the opportunity to look around the galleries and delegates can pre book onto one of the following curator tours

Ready for Prime Time: Older Adults Make Their Mark at MoMA

19.00-19.30

MoMA has launched Prime Time, a multiyear research and development project which aims to increase the participation of older adults in the Museum’s programs and activities and to think more broadly about how museums and cultural institutions can contribute to a fulfilling ageing process—one defined by creativity, curiosity, connectedness and continued growth.

“We have to get more millennials!” - Who hasn’t heard that rallying cry at museum board meetings, strategic planning sessions, and department check-ins over the past 5 years? Few museums are articulating why this audience is important and how to reach them effectively, instead choosing to focus on what they think will get millennials through the door.

From adding technology to movie nights to DJ and drinks nights at the museum, institutions are all too often following an, “If you build it (with tech and booze), they will come,” mentality.

Registration is open at National Gallery Ireland in the atrium throughout the day.

Please register and collect your delegate badge and bag before going on to your prebooked sessions. The badge ensures your entry to all MuseumNext events and coaches.

Each delegate will have received their personal schedule for day one of the conference based on the selections made on the email booking form. Please stick to your selections as each event has a maximum capacity.

TOUR: Patrick Hennessy at IMMA 19.30-20.00 TOUR: The Passion of Carol Rama at IMMA

PANEL: AAA. Attracting All Ages – Museums for Everyone Francesca Rosenberg, Director of Community, Access and School Programs, The Museum of Modern Art

This presentation will highlight relevant research findings as well as new program and partnership models and will invite audience members to examine their existing relationship with this part of the population and identify ways of tapping into the potential of this curious, learned, and dynamic group.

Takeover Day – Why Giving Young People a Role in a Museum Matters Dea Birkett, Creative Director, Kids in Museums Takeover Day is the biggest ever, annual initiative with young people in museums. In November 2015, over 5000 young people took part in over 150 museums in England and Wales. They took over venues from small oneroomed galleries up to huge sites including Stonehenge, where they guided visitors around the Neolithic stones. They put on exhibitions, designed websites, ran social media, and delivered educational workshops for primary school children. ‘It was the best day of my museum career!’ said one staff member.

The way to the hearts and minds of millennials at the National Museum of American History is to make personal connections with content that forge lasting relationships with the institution. This model can be extended to museums around the world as they develop strategies to connect with new and growing audiences. But don’t forget the booze.

Sarah Glennie, Director, Irish Museum of Modern Art will chair this panel

Dublin, 18–20 April 2016

11.45 – 12.30

12.30-1.30

KEYNOTE: Burning Man: Building Inclusive, Collaborative, Creative Culture

LUNCH

Marian Goodell, CEO, Burning Man

PANEL: Museums and Communities

Marian Goodell has been involved with Burning Man since 1995 and is one of six founders of the Burning Man organization, which in addition to its year-round programmes, produces the annual event in Nevada’s Black Rock City that becomes home to more than 70,000 ‘Burners’ for eight days each year.

Burning Man, which started out as an informal and spontaneous gathering on a San Francisco beach in 1986, has grown into a global cultural movement fuelled by inclusion, creative selfexpression and generous collaboration. As the non-profit Burning Man Project’s CEO, Marian oversees and leads the organization’s $30+ million dollar budget, 80 year-round employees, and thousands of volunteers. She helped to establish and grow the Global Network, now boasting more than 265 official ambassadors in 125 locations and more than 65 official Burning Man events on six continents annually, and is leading the effort to inspire and nurture Burning Man culture across the globe.

At MuseumNext, Marian will share her experiences and hard-earned insights about generating and cultivating creative culture gained from two decades of participating in and providing leadership to this growing movement.

13.30-15.00

Get Connected: Citizenship in the Capital Dr Sarah Rusholme, Wellington Museums Trust Visiting New Zealand’s capital city is an opportunity for school students to get the feel of places like the Parliament buildings, Government House, Supreme Court, Reserve Bank and the National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. It’s an opportunity to deepen their thinking about what it means to be a New Zealander and to explore their ideas of nationhood, identity and citizenship.

In 2014, research by Wellington Museums Trust identified that many regional students had never travelled to the heart of the capital. Lack of communication, connectivity of learning experiences, and the cost of travel were all barriers to accessing these learning experiences.

In response, thirteen of Wellington’s nationallysignificant institutions formed a consortium with support from the City Council. Led by Wellington Museums Trust, this group initiated joint communication, improved online assets for teachers planning a trip, and produced ChangeAgents: a resource that supports teachers to take a concept-led approach to teaching about citizenship.

This talk explores the difference this multistakeholder partnership approach has made to the consortium, students, teachers and the city – and how lessons learned along the way are shaping the second year of this innovative project.

Tate for All? The Development of the Social Model Synthia Griffin, Curator, Regeneration and Community Partnerships, Tate Modern Reflecting on Tate Modern’s development from power station to art gallery and the process of cultural led regeneration, Synthia Griffin will talk about the gallery’s role as a local museum and present a strategy for inclusive community engagement. Focusing on the development of Tate Modern’s unique ‘Social Model’ which aims to bring together local diverse communities and audiences to engage with the ongoing evolution of the Museum and its collection, she will share experience of delivering a programme of socially engaged art projects and urban interventions both within and outside of the museum context. Synthia will also talk about a collaborative project that involves writing songs about Tate Modern with a variety of community groups and having them performed by Choirs from all over London as part of the opening project for Tate Modern planned for June 2016.

Drawing together and sharing different models of working that offer engaging propositions for communities to collaborate she will talk about Tate’s role initiating steering groups, liaison groups and active participation models moving beyond the traditional offer of workshops to more inspiring longer term democratic models.

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Prototyping Places for People Deborah Cullinan, CEO, Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ “prototyping places for people” initiative addresses the growing issues of disconnection and lack of empathy among the diverse people of San Francisco. In the midst of rapid change, the city’s local media headlines are dominated by battles over public and private space, and questions of whom the city, or any given neighbourhood, really belongs to. Traditional urban planning processes have had limited, if any, community input. But YBCA believes that citizens deserve a voice in the transformation unfolding in their streets.

Through an unprecedented partnership with the San Francisco Planning Department, YBCA has launched an open source model that puts the people of the city at the centre of how things grow and shift. They began on Market Street; a major thoroughfare that spans several neighbourhoods in the midst of dramatic change. The Market Street Prototyping Festival asked citizens to submit their ideas for making Market Street a more welcoming, inspiring destination for the diverse people that live and work along it’s path. An open call yielded hundreds of submissions, and 50 ideas were selected to become temporary design installations (“prototypes”). Over three days in April, almost one million people visited these installations along Market Street, and it brought connectivity, empathy and inspiration to the city’s streets.

This was the first iteration of what will become an annual endeavour, leading up to and beyond the planned redesign of Market Street in 2018.

Over the next two years, YBCA will incubate 100 open-sourced ideas for activating public space, while tackling big questions like: can citizendriven change achieve equity? Moving forward, the “prototyping places for people” work will grow in new directions and neighbourhoods based on learnings.

Lynn Scarff, Director, Science Gallery Dublin, will chair this panel

Dublin, 18–20 April 2016

15.00-15.30

15.30-16.00

PRESENTATION: What is the Tomorrow We Are Talking About?

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Alexandre Fernandes, Audience Development Director Museu do Amanhã (Museum of Tomorrow) Luiz Alberto Oliveira, Curator, Museu do Amanhã (Museum of Tomorrow) The Museum of Tomorrow wants to invite society to think about the impact of the choices we, as people, citizens and members of humankind, are making today and how these choices will lead to different possible tomorrows.

The aim of this presentation is to introduce how the Museum of Tomorrow presents its inventory of possibilities according to the guidelines of sustainability and coexistence.

In addition, they will also discuss how the Museum of Tomorrow, by recognising the region’s historical and cultural values, is trying to legitimate itself as an important agent of transformation and empower the local community.

16.00-17.00 PANEL: Valuing People Within Museums Expanding Museum People Through Through Social Media Practice Monica O. Montgomery, Co Founder, Museum Hue and Action Director, LatimerNow Independent collectives of self directed museum workers are forming communities of practice outside of associations and conference halls. These self directed peer groups band together online as cohorts journeying through social media platforms, internet back channels and web based technologies to glean insights on topics as vast as labour, equity, audience evaluations and work life balance. Their actions are transforming the way professional development is done, calling out privilege and implicit bias and fuelling personal growth. Many emerging museum professionals, students, cultural producers, teaching artists and other arts and culture careerists are involved in weaving a vast network that consumes and creates these digital experiences and brave spaces as routine practice.

The outcomes of this social media revolution is an adaptive, well informed cohort of learners strengthened by input and ideas. Groups like Museum Workers Speak are shifting policy in AAM and generating solutions by adding unique and marginalized voices to the conversation.

The informal scholarship generated in this online crowdsourced approach is advancing tough but necessary issues in the sector, propelling a ripple effect for museum workers to adapt pivot and respond in an iterative digital format, while critically dissecting querying, engaging and archiving their journey.

Inside Out, How Staff Engagement Creates Museum Success Eleanor Appleby, Staff Engagement and Communications Consultant, Jane Wentworth Associates

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17.00-17.15 Thank You and Wrap Up for Day 2

What’s your biggest expense but also your biggest asset? Staff.

19.00-22.00

So how are you going to get the best out of them, especially when budgets are tight?

Science Gallery Dublin After Dark

This presentation will demonstrate how focusing on staff engagement is crucial to museum success – how it is key to creating a compelling and coherent visitor experience and how getting it right can significantly impact the bottom line with increased visitors, income and reputation, as well as improved staff happiness and motivation.

Hear what is meant by staff engagement, the core principles that underpin it, and the simple but effective actions that can be taken to make it work in museums – no matter how large or small. Find out what staff need to hear and how they need to hear it, the most effective internal communication techniques, the vital but often overlooked role of staff touch-points, and the single most important thing leaders can do to get staff believing in them.

Experience the collision of art and science at Science Gallery Dublin in an after-dark evening curated especially for MuseumNext delegates.

The venue’s latest exhibition, FIELD TEST: RADICAL ADVENTURES IN THE FUTURE OF FARMING will be in full swing on the night offering attendees the chance to engage with mediators and explore the questions that the exhibition poses including: Will we make hay while the sun shines or when the sensors say?

Will farms change into factories, food forests or even theme parks? Will we embrace in-vitro meat, drone tractors, and robotic ranchers or are we willing to pay more for slow, local and hand-picked?

Get to know your colleagues better while exploring some of the highlights the gallery has to offer. Take part in engrossing experiments, hands-on workshops, interactive demonstrations and games as the gallery feature some of their greatest hits from the eight years that they have been open. Amongst these, visitors will taste and try crops curated by artists and scientists, explore a digital farm that fits in their bedroom, and dream up the farms of the future.

In the theatre, conference attendees are invited to take inspiration from a previous Science Gallery Dublin exhibition, FAIL BETTER, and participate in a special series of Pecha Kucha talks on failure.

Complimentary drinks and canapés will be available along with a paid bar and substantial menu from the café’s kitchen.

The house DJ will add to the ambiance throughout the night and there will be playful opportunities for networking and finding out more about your fellow conference attendees.

Dublin, 18–20 April 2016

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Wednesday 20 April 10.15-11.30

11.30-12.15

12.15-13.15

Why Corporations Invest in Museums

In Conversation with David Fleming

Building the Global Science Gallery Network

LUNCH

Jessica Litwin, Senior Account Manager, Boster Group

David Fleming, Director, National Museums Liverpool

Dr. Michael John Gorman, CEO Science Gallery International

13.15-14.45

David Fleming has a long, diverse and highly successful career in museums and is one of the world’s leading thinkers and activists on museum management and leadership, city history museums, social inclusion, human rights, politics, ethics and emotion. In this session at MuseumNext, Jasper Visser will ask David about his experiences, the lessons he has learned and his view on the future of museums. Delegates will have the opportunity to ask David their own questions during the session.

From its beginnings of Science Gallery in a forgotten corner of Trinity College Dublin to a burgeoning global Network with eight galleries planned by 2020, Dr. Michael John Gorman has shaped and scaled the Science Gallery concept as Founding Director of Science Gallery Dublin and now CEO of Science Gallery International.

With the Dublin gallery now welcoming more than 400,000 people every year and galleries already planned for London, Bengaluru and Melbourne, the Global Science Gallery Network is poised to connect the best minds in some of the world’s most exciting cities. But can a Network embody the agility, creativity and connectivity of the original gallery whilst growing beyond the original space? During this keynote, Michael John Gorman will discuss the challenges and opportunities of going global, and what it will mean for Science Gallery.

In 2001 David Fleming, OBE MA PhD AMA, became director of National Museums Liverpool. Since then he has led a major modernisation of the National Museums Liverpool, which has resulted in it becoming a leading example of an inclusive museum service with a large and diverse audience. During his time as director, audiences have more than quadrupled, rising to more than 3.2 million per year. David has been responsible for the creation of two new museums in Liverpool, the Museum of Liverpool and the International Slavery Museum.

David is President of the UK Museums Association and former Chairman of the MA’s Ethics Committee. He has served on several Government committees and task forces.

He is currently Convener of the Social Justice Alliance of Museums (SJAM) and President of the Federation of International Human Rights Museums (FIHRM). He is Visiting Professor of Museum Studies at Liverpool Hope University, and Special Advisor to the Museum of Democracy in Rosario, Argentina.

David has published extensively and has lectured worldwide – most recently in Australia, Hong Kong, Georgia and Sweden.

Future Finance To Charge or not to Charge: Museums and the Admission Dilemma Silvia Filippini Fantoni, Director of Interpretation, Media and Evaluation, Indianapolis Museum of Art The debate about whether museums should be free or not is a hot topic at the moment.

Many keep on advocating for free admission to guarantee access to those with limited income.

Due to the lingering effects of the economic downturn, however, others have started to question the sustainability of the free admission model which relies heavily on public funding, large endowment draws and contributions from an aging donor base. In order to contribute to the debate and help institutions that are currently considering switching business models, Silvia Filippini Fantoni from the Indianapolis Museum of Art will share their experience with the recent move to a general admission charge.

During the presentation she will discuss, amongst other things, the reason behind the switch, how this has affected attendance, and audience demographics, but also the impact that it has had on membership numbers, and visitor engagement with the museum and gardens. Silvia will also discuss how the institution has responded to and will continue to address some of the challenges that were brought by this change. In the past few years the IMA has collected lots of data about its visitors both before and after the change. This has given them the opportunity to document the shift in admission policy in a very detailed way and share such useful data with the museum community.

This talk explores how sustainable, long-term partnerships between the private sector and museums can result in a resilient funding model in a climate when government funding is being reduced. Corporate investment in museums has come a long way from its foundations in philanthropy. It is now a component of a diverse development environment, running in tandem alongside trusts and foundations grants, major gifts, government funding and individual giving.

However, corporate investment in museums is drastically different from the other forms of museum funding we see – it requires a return on investment.

This return on investment can help guarantee a more long-term and resilient funding model, but also presents challenges to the institutions being funded.

By exploring a series of case studies, this presentation will examine why the private sector invests, the types of return on investment sought by corporations, and opportunities and challenges in the museum sector.

Revenue and Relevance – Making Money Without Selling Out Jim Broughton, Head of International Engagement, The Natural History Museum Jim will talk about the decisions museums must make in order to identify new areas for expanding their revenue-generating activities, without compromising either credibility or core purpose. He will show how the Natural History Museum has developed a strategic approach to evaluating and cultivating opportunities in order to accrue benefits that support its mission to challenge the way society thinks about its relationship with the natural world as much as they contribute funding towards its operations, programmes and research.

Jim will explore some of the wider issues associated with a closer relationship between museums and business, and will use examples to show how these can be channeled in order to develop a more equitable relationship with funders, enabling new kinds of dialogue beyond the traditional donor/recipient loop.

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14.45 – 15.15 Google Cultural Institute James Davis is Programme Manager at Google Cultural Institute and will talk about the growth of the Institute, new technologies launched, and give a glimpse into where they are going next.

15.15-15.45

June 23 at The Royal Institution, London

BREAK 15.45-16.45 Closing Conversation Museum directors will have an on stage discussion about the future of museums to conclude the conference.

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Thanks and conference ends.

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Director of Digital Content and Strategy, MoMA

Head of Marketing and Digital, Royal Albert Hall

Digital Programmes Manager, Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums

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Director of Marketing, 360 and Content, Cirque du Soleil

Head of Communications and Digital Director, Sonar Festival

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Pub Crawl

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Tom P ursey Co-founder, Flying Object

Dublin, 18–20 April 2016

Marian Goodell Founding Board Member and CEO, Burning Man Project @mariangoodell @burningman www.burningman.org

Synthia Griffin Curator, Regeneration and Community Partnership, Tate Modern

Monica O Montgomery Co Founder, Museum Hue and Action Director Latimer Now @monica_muses @MuseumHue

@deborahcullinan @ybca www.ybca.org

@lscarff dublin.sciencegallery.com

Sarah Rusholme Head of Strategy, Wellington Museums Trust @mrscobbtoyou www.wmt.org.nz

www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk

@synthiag www.tate.org.uk

Deborah Cullinan CEO, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Lynn Scarff Director, Science Gallery Dublin

Caro Howell Director, The Founding Museum

Luiz Alberto Oliveira Chief Curator, Museu do Amanha

Ngaire Blankenberg European Director and Principal Consultant, Lord Cultural Resources and co-author of Cities, Museums and Soft Power

Gail Boyle Curator (Archaeology) Bristol Culture

Dea Birkett Creative Director, Kids in Museums

Sarah Franke Independent Museum Consultant

@boyle123g www.bristol.gov.uk

@kidsinmuseums www.kidsinmuseums.org.uk

@sarahfranke www.sarahfranke.com

Lois Stonock Founder, L. Stonock Consultancy

Silvia Filippini Fantoni Director of Interpretation, Media and Evaluation, Indianapolis Museum of Art

Claire Bown Founder Thinking Museum

@loisstonock

@imamuseum @silviaff20 www.imamuseum.org

www.lord.ca

David Fleming Director, National Museums Liverpool

Charlie Tims Researcher @charlietims

www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk

Michael John Gorman CEO, Science Gallery International

@museudoamanha www.museudoamanha.org.br

@michaeljohng @sciencegallery @LMU_Muenchen dublin.sciencegallery.com

Jessica Litwin Senior Account Manager, Boster Group

@francescatime www.moma.org

Boris Wastiau Director, Ethnographic Museum of Geneva

Susan Evans McClure Director, Smithsonian Food History Programmes, National Museu of American History

www.ville-ge.ch/meg/index. php

@SusnEvans www.americanhistory.si.edu

@clachel @brcarts www.brcweb.com

www.imma.ie

Jim Broughton Head of International Engagment, The Natural History Museum, London

Marijke Oosterbroek Amsterdam Museum

@MuseumsAskew www.museumsaskew.com

@lavadesignlab www.lava.nl/lvalab

@LottieDerry www.moreplayfulplaytimes.org

Ben Templeton Associate Creative Director, Preloaded

@jaspervisser www.visschstam.com

@thoughtben www.preloaded.com

www.nms.ac.uk

Jenny Siung Head of Education, Chester Beatty Library Eleanor Appleby Consultant, Jane Wentworth Associates

@CBL_Dublin @JennySiung www.cbl.ie

@jwalondon www.janewentworth.com

www.amsterdammuseum.nl

Klasien Van De Zandschulp Director, Lava Lab

Charlotte Derry Play Consultant, More Playful Playtimes

Jasper Visser Senior Partner, VISSCH+STAM

Christine McLean Community Engagement Manager, National Museums Scotland

www.rt-cconcepts.com Francesca Rosenberg Director, Community, Access and School Programs, MoMA

Rachael Thomas Senior Curator: Head of Exhibitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art

Kate Bowell Founder, Museums Askew

Lenore McMillan Consultant, Museum Planning Partners

Dr Rainer Tredt Head and CEO of RTCulturalConcepts, Lecturer at University of Würzburg

Christian Lachel Executive Creative Director and Vice President, BRC Imagination Arts

www.nhm.ac.uk

@jesslitwin @bostergroup www.bostergroup.com

@museudoamanha www.museudoamanha.org.br

Alexandre Fernandes, Audience Development Director

@thinkingmuseum www.thinkingmuseum.com

#museumnext

Conxa Roda Head of Strategy and Communication Co-director of the Postgraduate on Museum Management, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya @innova2 www.museunacional.cat

Rob Warren Touring Manager, Science Gallery International international.sciencegallery. com

Laura Crossley Museum Consultant and PhD Researcher @lfcrossley www.lauracrossley.com

Dublin, 18–20 April 2016

Rebecca O’Neill Deputy Chair and PhD Researcher, Wikimedia Community Ireland and University of Hull @wikimediaIE www.wikimedia.ie

Mar Dixon Audience development and social media specialist @MarDixon @AskaCurator @MuseomixUK @Museumcamp @TeensinMuseums @CultureThemes @Puppetarchives www.mardixon.com/

Scott Billings Digital Engagement Officer, Museum of Natural History @morethanadodo @sbeebee www.oum.ox.ac.uk

Dr Oonagh Murphy Associate Professor of Visual Arts Management and Curating, Richmond, The American International University, London

@MarleenHartjes @VanAbbemuseum www.vanabbemuseum.nl/ specialguests Paul Clifford Learning and Creative Technologist

@jmkd www.google.com/ culturalinstitute

Mark Nagurski Co-founder, MakerMatic @iddictive @makematic www.makematic.com

Katie Lowry Culture Officer, Creative Europe Desk Ireland www.artscouncil.ie

www.richmond.ac.uk

Michael Ann Bevivino Honorary General Secretary, RSAI Council Marleen Hartjes Accessibility Manager, Education, Mediation, Van Abbemuseum

James Davis Programme Manager, Google Cultural Institute

www.rsai.ie

Emilia McKenzie Education Manager for Digital Content, British Museum www.britishmuseum.org

Ian Brunswick Programme Manager, Science Gallery Dublin

Miki Lentin Head of Corporate Affairs, The British Library www.bl.uk

Bradley Allen Head, Creative Europe Desk Denmark www.kulturstyrelsen.dk

@ IanBrunswick Dublin.sciencegallery.com

Jeffrey Roe Co-founder, TOG Hackspace

Emma McLean Account Manager AKA

Shannon Darrough Director, Digital Media at The Museum of Modern Art

www.akauk.com

moma.org/

Matt Caines Editor, Guardian culture Professionals Network

Jim Richardson Founder, MuseumNext

@Jeffrey_Roe @TOG_Dublin www.tog.ie

www.thenpaulclifford.com Lar Joye Curator of Transport, Flag and Military History Collections, National Museu of Ireland Collin Barracks Ina Pruegel Digital Project Manager, Historic Royal Palaces

@MNIreland www.museum.ie/home

Cecile Marsan Innovation and Co-operation Projects, Cap Sciences Bordeaux

Jo-anne Sunderland Bowe Director, Heritec www.heritec.com

@capsciences @cecilemarsan www.creative-museum.eu www.cap-science.net

@3today www.hrp.org.uk

Nicholas Bingham International Director of Business Development, GAMAR

Thom Conaty Managing Director, maker Electronics Ireland Ltd

www.gamar.com Ellen Byrne Creative Director, The Festival of Curiosity @SciEllen festivalofcuriosity.ie

www.maker.ie

@GdnCulturePros @Guardian @WannabeHacks www.theguardian.com/ culture-professionals-network

Audrey Keane Culture Officer at Creative Europe Desk Ireland www.artscouncil.ie

@SumoJim @MuseumNext

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