The webinars are free and anyone can participate. The Network of European Museum Organizations (NEMO) invites international museum experts from Europe to speak on 22 September on the theme of sustainable museum development: holistic, sustainable and future-oriented.

At the international level, museums record great changes, new needs, the transformation of cultural organizations in the context of the crisis of recent years. However, the network notes, like all other industries, museums produce climate-damaging carbon dioxide. Expectation: reduce, transform, act more responsibly.

The seminar will discuss, among other things, what measures need to be taken, the development of strategies for sustainable development, the implementation of individual measures, how we can become stewards of sustainable development in the culture as a whole.

A few days later, from 9 to 11 October in Lula, Portugal, the European Congress of Museums will look at workshops on how a museum can become more innovative. Resilient museums in times of upheaval. How can they be innovative and flexible in a rapidly changing and complex world? There will be conversations about new approaches and perspectives, as well as self-criticism of the museum and its functions. The change in their business models due to the growing digitalization of society, etc. will also be considered.

It is true that professionals from museums and cultural organizations abroad are increasingly mobilized. The Danish Association of Museums has announced that by 2025 it will help the country’s museums to become more sustainable. With funding of DKK 5.8 million (€780,000) from the Augustine Foundation, the ambitious “Green Museum Academy” has been launched, which aims to implement a nationally coordinated approach to climate change. It will focus on buildings, conservation and exhibitions, and will provide a forum for knowledge sharing.

It’s not just environmental issues, reduced energy consumption, sustainable solutions and proposals, digital challenges and experiences that have been exacerbated by lockdowns during the pandemic. Museums and cultural institutions are transforming by discussing diversity, equality, accessibility, inclusion, gender identity.