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Culture Sector and Museum Conferences [2024 Updated]

In preparation for the 2024 conference season, we have created a list of events across the globe that focus on innovation and development in the culture sector. Whether you’re an archivist, a curator, or even a student, there’s something on this list for everyone. And if you’re on the fence about your conference line up, many of these events are accessible remotely. Check out the information below for details about virtual registration and registration prices.

If you have an update or conference to add to this list, please reach out to Rielle.ullberg@axiell.com. Prices listed are in USD unless otherwise specified.

 

Canadian Museums Association (CMA) National Conference 2024 – April 9-11

CMA’s annual conference offers a program centered around professional development and networking. The conference is entitled “The Future of Collaboration,” addressing questions related to how museums can open their processes to communities.

✈️ Niagara Falls, ON, Canada

💳 Registration is open!

  • Regular member rate (until March 28): $695 CAD
  • Student member rate: $350 CAD
  • Late member rate: $795 CAD

Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) Conference 2024 – May 1-4

The AAMC conference offers a selection of panels, keynotes, workshops and breakout opportunities for socializing with other conference attendees. Targeted to the visual arts community, the conference will explore and create dialogues around the conference theme, “Now/Next,” which seeks to explore the current and future relevance and value of art institutions.

✈️ San Francisco, CA, USA

💻 Virtual attendance is also accommodated.

💳 Registration is open!

  • Current members
    • In-person: $375
    • Virtual: $200
  • Non-member curator and affiliated non-profit employees
    • In-person: $1500

Museums + Heritage Show 2024 – May 15-16

One of the UK’s largest cultural sector conferences, the Museums + Heritage blends networking, premium content, and community support together into a multi-day event.

✈️ Olympia, London, UK

💳 Registration is open!

  • Free for museum, heritage, and cultural sector employees.

Association of Children’s Museums (ACM) Conference 2024 – May 15-17

ACM’s 2024 conference is entitled “InterActivity 2024: Flourish,” focusing on how the field can ensure that every child can prosper into caring, compassionate, and inclusive individuals. The conference will be comprised of program content that explores how to adapt to new and changing museum dynamics, skills-based training workshops, and networking and social events.

✈️ Madison, WI, USA

💳 Registration is not yet open.

 

American Alliance of Museums (AAM) Annual Meeting and Museum Expo 2024 – May 16-19

AAM’s Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo is a large-scale event that brings culture sector professionals together for a program of presentations and workshops generated in collaboration with institutions and individuals from the sector. This year’s program will focus on museums’ roles in promoting health and well-being.

✈️ Baltimore, MD, USA

💳 Registration is open!

  • Full meeting member rate: $675
  • Full meeting: $875
  • Presenter: $395
  • Student member: $275
  • One-day: $375

American Institute for Conservation (AIC) Annual Meeting 2024 – Pre-sessions May 20-21, Main Conference May 22-24

For this annual meeting, the theme is “Expect the Unexpected: Embracing and Managing Change, Uncertainty, and Surprise.” The conference is particularly interested in stories of the unexpected, surprises, and pivots. The submission portal for abstracts will be open until September 15.

✈️ Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

💳 Registration is open!

  • Early (until March 6)
    • Standard member: $399
    • Standard: $499
    • Post graduate member: $299
    • Student member: $205
    • Student: $299
    • Speaker: $299
  • Regular (until April 15)
    • Standard member: $449
    • Standard: $549
    • Post graduate member: $329
    • Student member: $215
    • Student: $329
    • Speaker: $329

Association of Independent Museums (AIM) Conference 2024 – June 16-17

The Association of Independent Museums hosts an annual event for members in the UK. The 2024 program will focus on community-centered governance, power, and staff and visitor wellbeing in museums.

✈️ Dudley, UK

💳 Registration is not yet open.

 

International Conference on Art Museums, Galleries and Archives 2024 – June 20-21

This Conference aims to centralize scholarly presentations regarding the most recent innovations, trends, concerns, and practical challengers within the culture sector. This conference’s topic focus is all aspects of art museums, galleries, and archive governance.

✈️ Paris, France

💳 Registration is open!

  • Non-Student Oral/Poster Presenter Registration: € 450
  • Student Oral/Poster Presenter Registration: € 350
  • Listener Registration: € 250
  • Additional Paper Publication: € 100

International Conference on Digital Heritage 2024 – July 18-19

This Conference aims to centralize scholarly presentations regarding the most recent innovations, trends, concerns, and practical challenges within the culture sector. This conference’s topic focus is all aspects of digital heritage.

✈️ Rhodes, Greece

💳 Registration is open!

  • Non-Student Oral/Poster Presenter Registration: € 450
  • Student Oral/Poster Presenter Registration: € 350
  • Listener Registration: € 250
  • Additional Paper Publication: € 100

Digital Library Federation (DFL) Forum 2023 – July 29-31 and virtually October 22-23

The DFL Forum is geared to promote learning, networking, and skill-building through a community of digital library, museum, archives, and cultural heritage practitioners.

✈️ East Lansing, MI, USA (July 29-31)

💻 Virtual (October 22-23)

💳 Registration is not yet open.

 

Society of American Archivists (SAA) Annual Meeting 2024 – August 12-17

The SAA Annual Meeting is held during the late summer in cities across America, offering education sessions, pre-conference workshops, networking opportunities, special events, exhibits, and tours of local repositories. Affordability and access are top concerns for the conference as well as social responsibility and diversity.

✈️ Chicago, IL, USA

💳 Registration is not yet open.

 

Archives and Records Association (ARA) UK and Ireland Conference 2024 – August 28-30

The ARA UK and Ireland Conference brings influential museum players together to discuss the latest developments within the community. The conference is a must-attend for record-keeping professionals and boasts an exciting line up of industry leading speakers.

✈️ Birmingham, UK

💳 Registration is not yet open.

 

Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) Annual Meeting 2024 – September 3-7

The 2024 SPNHC annual meeting for the natural history community will be hosted jointly with Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). The annual meeting includes workshops, symposia, and ample opportunity to exchange ideas and network with colleagues in the field of natural history collections care.

✈️ Okinawa, Japan

💳 Registration is not yet open.

 

17th International Conference on the Inclusive Museum 2024 – September 13-15

The 2024 Conference on the Inclusive Museum will explore intersectionality through a series of interrelated themes: visitors, collections, and representations.

✈️ MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria

💻 Virtual attendance is also accommodated.

💳 Registration is open!

  • In-person: $545
  • In-person student: $395
  • Virtual: $295
  • Virtual student: $195

DAM Yew York 2023– October 23-24

DAM New York is one of the world’s leading and largest global conference dedicated to Digital Asset Management. The conference program is designed to facilitate shared experiences, enhance knowledge and build professional networks. Conference themes include metadata, end-to-end integration, omnichannel publishing, programmable media, creative operations, artificial intelligence, workflow automation, corporate archives, governance, rights management, and many others.

✈️ New York, New York, USA

💳 Registration is open!

  • Standard Fee: $1,499
  • Solution Providers: $2,299
  • Not for profit employees: $1,099

Museums Association Conference 2024 – November 12-14

As a member organisation for UK museums, Museum Association hosts an annual conference and exhibition each Autumn. This year’s conference will bring together presenters from all around the world for sessions, workshops, and networking under the theme “the joy of museums.”

✈️ Leeds, UK

💳 Stay tuned for 2024 registration.

 

2025:

International Council on Archives Congress 2025 – October

The International Council on Archives hosts an annual event organized in partnership with local archives to identify their fundamental roles in society. The 2023 congress is entitled “Enriching Knowledge Societies,” and will serve as an opportunity for professionals to share innovative ideas and research with colleagues.

✈️ Barcelona, Spain

💳 Stay tuned for 2025 conference dates and registration.

 

To be announced:

MuseWeb (MW) Conference – Spring

MuseWeb’s conferences explore developments in museum innovation and technology. Last year’s conference offered professional learning opportunities including plenary sessions, networking events, workshops, and awards.

✈️ In-person in Washington DC in 2023

💳 Stay tuned for 2024 conference dates and registration.

 

Australian Museums and Galleries Association (AMaGA) National Conference – Spring

This conference typically offers various tracks, including plenary sessions, lightning talks, and awards. The 2023 theme was “Discomfort,” exploring how this feeling is experienced, understood, and addressed within museums and galleries.

✈️ In-person in Awabakal and Worimi Land Newcastle, Australia 2023

💻 Virtual attendance was also accommodated.

💳 Stay tuned for 2024 conference dates and registration.

 

SITEM Conference – Spring

SITEM is an international exhibition of museums, places of culture, and tourism. The 2023 year conference focused on three trends in the culture sector: cultural economy, internationalization, and cultural variety.

✈️ In-person at Carrousel du Louvre, Paris in 2023

💳 Registration typically opens in April of the conference year.

  • Cultural, heritage, tourist and community institutions and sites: free
  • Cultural professionals: free
  • Commercial companies: € 75
  • Students: € 10

Collections Trust Conference – Fall

Author of the Spectrum collections management standard, Collections Trust hosts an annual conference in the UK. This year’s conference will focus on the possibilities that data sharing facilitates and the benefits that collections data can provide users

💻 Fully remote via Zoom

💳 Stay tuned for 2024 conference dates and registration.

 

Axiell North American User Conference – Fall

Historically Axiell has hosted an in-person user meet up every year at a different North American city. The event will feature sessions you know and love: roadmaps, platform updates, trainings and more.

✈️ Cleveland, OH in 2023

💳 Stay tuned for 2024 conference dates and registration.

 

Museum Computer Network (MCN) Conference – Fall

MCN has been held every year since 1968. The event brings hundreds of culture sector professionals together for presentations geared along three tracks: museum, computer, and network.  This event also features valuable opportunities for networking at their signature evening event called “Ignite!”

✈️ Philadelphia, PA in 2023

💳 Stay tuned for 2024 conference dates and registration.

 

The Art Museum in the Digital Age – Winter

The Belvedere Research Center hosts an annual conference geared towards art museums and digital transformation. At past conferences, international experts delivered lectures around topics such as hybridity and the merging of digital and analog entities within the museum.

✈️ Wein, Austria (workshops and panel discussion) in 2023

💻 Fully virtual (conference) in 2023

💳 Stay tuned for 2024 conference dates and registration.

 

Museum Connections Conference – Winter

With a mission statement to inspire tomorrow’s culture and tourism experience, Museum Connections is an international trade fair that focuses on the challenges museums and cultural institutions face, and the trends and innovations emerging in the sector.

✈️ Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, Paris in 2024

💳 Registration is not yet open and free for MuseumConnections members

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