2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Archive of the Commons

  Joaquin Barriendos
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• What Does Home Mean to You?

  Louis Platman
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 15:40

• Art and Emerging Technologies

  Trish Classe Gianakis
  Innovation Showcase

• Smell on Display

  Ulrike Zitzlsperger
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Entering the Wardrobe

  Ann Rowson Love
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Reimagining Sound Archives

  Zhuolin Li, Wenyan Wang
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• An Analysis of Historical, Cultural and Spiritual Aspects Impacting the Interior Design of a Natural History Museum

  Inge Lize Weber
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Staying Relevant

  Maja Rudloff
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Accessing Museum Collections in Contemporary Pakistan

  Noor Ahmed
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Para-Pedagogical

  Lleah Smith
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Online Asynchronous

• Youth Innovation Through Curatorial Collaboration

  Christina Alderman, Conor Moynihan
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Extending the Museum's Educational Mission into the University

  Audrey Fessler
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Opinion of Experts Regarding the Use of the Internet of Things on Museum Objects Standardized by CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model

  Aysouda Akesst, Amir Reza Asnafi
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Curating Exclusion - Analyzing the Legacy of Redlining in Contemporary Museum Spaces

  William Gates
  Poster Session
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 11:50

• Designing for Participation

  Büşra Altıntepe
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 15:20

• Quinceañeras

  Angharad Valdivia
  Innovation Showcase

• Cut Paper, Food Barges and Ceramic Dragons

  Deborah Randolph
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Embedding Inclusive Practice in Museum Programmes

  Simon Dodi, Vanessa Weibel
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 15:40

• En Attendant Ars Aevi - Navigating Absence, Presence, and Cultural Resilience toward an Open-air Urban Museum

  Senka Ibrisimbegovic, Nermina Zagora
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Online Asynchronous

• Living Archive

  Melanie May, Elsa Franco Franco
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.2 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 15:40

• A Naturally-Occuring Ecomuseum in Polish Spisz

  Janusz Barański
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 12:50

• Unseen Angles

  Renato Trotta
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Transforming Museums into Wellbeing Tools with Neuroaesthetics

  Zoé Jiménez Corretjer
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The MOCO Museum Network

  Paula Jaulín Lecina
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 13:20

• Gendered Governance and Financial Reporting Quality of Museum Foundations

  Christophe Van Linden
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Online Asynchronous

• The Architecture of Wandering

  Amos Bar-Eli
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 11:10

• Sustainable Museums and Cultural Sustainability

  Marina Sofia Papantonaki
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Museums, Libraries and Archives - Mapping the (In)tangible

  Ana Carvalho
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 15:00

• The Role of Multimedia Content Accessibility in Enhancing Museum Inclusivity

  Nikita Bolshakov
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Augmented Reality for Inclusive Arts and Culture

  Tommaso Santilli, Catia Giaconi, Simone Betti, Lorenzo Virgini
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Gatekeeping Curatorial Voice

  Laura-Edythe Coleman
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 11:10

• The W. E. B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Adam Holmes
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 10:30

• Design Strategies for Children

  Amparo Alvarez, Mariana Lozada
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Re-envisioning Oral History Archives as Tools for Self-Actualization and Collective Liberation through Research-Creation and Participatory Performance Art

  Gracia Dyer Jalea
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 16:00

• Improving Curatorial Practices Through the Dimensions of Curation Competing Values Model

  Xiaonan Jiang
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Online Asynchronous

• Expanding the Art Museum Possibilities

  Irma L Uribe Santibáñez
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Reconstructing Disability Discourse in Museums

  Lirui Zhang
  Poster Session

• Subjectivity, Plurality, Transparency

  Lilian Cameron
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Contribution of Artistic and Heritage Activity to Education With a Focus on Interrelated Learning of Mathematics and Music

  Olga Souto
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Newid Byd | Something New

  Kate Allen, Nicholas Hollinworth, Gosia Kwiatkowska
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Online Asynchronous

• Sensory Heritage - Bridging Culture, Memory, and Access through Sensory Practice

  Julia Collar
  Innovation Showcase

• Museum of Language

  Sunshine Dlangamandla
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• LGBTQ+ Programming and Public Practice in a Major Museum

  Anastasia Sotnikova
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Museums as Living Labyrinths of Collective Imagination

  Isaac Mensah, Elizabeth Gilblom
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Mental Health in the Archive

  Vicky Palmer, Adam Barnard
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 13:10

• Are Museums Inclusive Places for Generally Excluded Social Groups?

  Nancy Rocio Rueda Esteban
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 16:20

• Reimagining the Academic Library as a Third Space

  Domen Žalac
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Say Their Names Exhibit + Research Project

  Virginia Thomas
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Participation of NGOs in Museum Management

  Željka Miklošević
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 13:00

• The Museology of Peacebuilding

  Bengi Atun
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• An Ecosystem for Fashion Repositories

  Carolina Francesca Maria Davalli
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Online Asynchronous

• Interactivity and Spatial Narratives

  Julia Resende, Luiza Novaes
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Online Asynchronous

• Sustainable Art Residences

  Piotr Sikora
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• I Am Matriarch - a Cross-Museum Platform for Feminist, Ethical, and Decolonial Storytelling

  Andrea Fernandez
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Museum Sources and Playful Elements in History Teaching

  Kornélia Jeszenszki
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• inART - an Inclusive Arts Project for People with Visual Impairments in Athens Municipal Gallery

  Loukia Chaidemenaki
  Innovation Showcase

• Redefining Personalisation - AI-Enhanced Museum Experiences Through Social Interaction and Serendipity

  Danyang Li, Yimeng Li
  Poster Session

• The Many Souls of a Cemetery

  Michelangelo Giampaoli
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Play Office

  Catherine Paterson
  Poster Session

• Hearing History

  Teresa Neff
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Bridging Cultural Gaps

  Vanessa Cesário
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Generating a Healing Gallery

  Natasha S. Reid
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 13:30

• Restore a Museum

  José Nicolás Balbi
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Museums for All

  Yassamin Kouraichi
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 16:00

• Given Time - Sensory Aesthetics of Reclamation

  Megan Alvarado Saggese
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Inclusive Museum Education Project for Students with Visual Disabilities

  Gian Marco Girgenti, Sara Morena, Eleonora Mancuso
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Reorienting Museums in Community

  Gabrielle Mangaser
  Innovation Showcase

• From Silos to Synergy?

  Geerd De Ceulaerde
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Health and Happiness

  Anna Wong
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Reimagining Narratives with Local Communities and Cultural Institutions in A Coruña

  Francesco Aresti
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Inclusive Science Education and Inclusive Museums

  Senem Bas
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 16:00

• Archives Against Stereotype

  Ellen Stone
  Innovation Showcase

• Facing the Global Crisis Together

  Neus Crous Costa
  Workshop Presentation
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 11:50

• Clay Cycle - a Material Methodology

  Dena Bagi
  Innovation Showcase
  Room 2.4 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 12:40

• The "Then" and the "Now" in Urdu Graphic and Type Design

  Komal Salman
  Innovation Showcase

• A Library and…

  Nomalanga Mahlangu
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Artificial Intelligence in Museum Education

  Jungwon Lee
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Reimagining Museum Spaces

  Raša Urbas
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Queering the Museum, Rethinking Curatorial Practices

  Maria Ejarque
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Construction of the Modern Museum in Brazil

  Luna Lobão
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Building Belongings in the City of Las Vegas

  Zida Wang
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Evaluating Community Voice Labels at the Cleveland Museum of Art

  Lingran Zhang
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Using Augmented Reality to Discover Community in the Borderlands

  Lisa Falk
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 10:50

• Creating Virtual Exhibitions

  Zida Wang, Morgan Hamilton
  Innovation Showcase

• Inclusive Museum Spaces for Migrant Integration

  Sofia Canda
  Innovation Showcase

• The Final Stop of Migrant Labor

  Yu-ling Ku
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Co-creating Radical Taxonomies

  Florence Okoye
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Strategies for Promoting Pre-Service Teachers’ Comfortability with Musuem-Based Learning Activities as a Way to Increase Museum Accessibility and Attendance for Young Children and Their Families

  Lauren Burrow
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.2 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 16:00

• Engaging Stakeholders, Shaping the Future

  Gesualda Iodice, Francesco Bifulco
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.2 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 16:20

• Reviving Thoughts

  Hedista Rani Pranata
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Meeting and Communicating Together Thanks to Museum Mediation

  Muriel Molinier
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Museum of Everyday Life

  Clare Dolan
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• A Way of Encountering — Expressing and Listening Inclusively About Inclusion

  Hsuan Chi Liu
  Workshop Presentation

• Museums for Health and Wellbeing

  Irene Pérez López
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 12:40

• Community Access Scheme for Historic Royal Palaces

  Jatinder Kailey, Kim Klug
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 13:10

• Mannequin Makeover

  Miriam Yeo
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Making Exhibitions More Accessible

  Christoph Kreinbucher Bekerle, Angela Fink
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Online Asynchronous

• A Care-ful Approach to Participatory Practices in Art Museums

  Judith Abellán Reina
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Teaching innovation at the University - the Muse_Com project, Museums and University

  Mónica Viñarás Abad, Juan Enrique Gonzálvez Vallés, Ana Pedreño Santos, José A. Ruiz San Román
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• A Little History of the Sikhs

  Rav Singh
  Innovation Showcase
  Room 2.4 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 15:20

• Community Museums - Engines of Identity and Connection for Cities

  Laura Gallardo
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• 3D Printing & Cultural Spaces

  Samuel Foulkes, Tom Babinszki
  Innovation Showcase
  Room 2.4 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 15:00

Representations

• Towards Universal Design in Museums

  Zakia Hammouni
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Deaf & Voiced - Rewriting Cultural Narratives Through Inclusive Praxis

  Varvara Merenkova, Vlad Kolesnikov
  Workshop Presentation

• Complex Context

  Skylar Masuda
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Connecting Through Culture

  Shubhani Shubhani
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Women, Technology, and the Museum

  Alena Podnebennaia
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Highlighting Sustainability Development Goals Associations with Cultural Heritage Institutions

  Lyndon Nixon
  Workshop Presentation

• i-curation - How Curatorial Practices on Instagram May Provide a New Participatory Curatorial Model in Museums of Contemporary Art

  Simon Banos
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• (Non-)Performative Decolonisation

  Giorgia Cacciatore
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 10:30

• Interpreting Interpretation

  Peter Dixon
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Online Asynchronous

• Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage

  Jen Ross, Cate Schofield, Philippa Sheail, Melissa Terras
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 15:00

• Latino cARTographies

  Pamela Anne Quiroz, Juana Guzman, Marisela Martinez
  Innovation Showcase
  Room 2.4 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 13:20

• Visual and Material Representations of Greek Post-war Labour Migration in Germany

  Christos Zisis
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Wakhi Museum and Arts Gallery

  Ali Rehmat
  Innovation Showcase

• Reinforcing Marginality

  Nitya Sankhe
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Innovative Museography - Integrating Cross-cultural Narratives through Digital and Physical Spaces

  Irena Sertic
  Innovation Showcase

• Innovative Re-use Scenario of a Digital Museum Object

  Tina Schneider
  Innovation Showcase
  Room 2.4 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 16:00

• Preserving Cities

  Athira Manoharan
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Burdens of Resistance

  Sahar Tarighi
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Connecting and Collecting Tangible and Intangible Sporting Heritage

  Catherine Robins
  Poster Session

• Museums as Practice not Place

  Lisa Enright
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 10:50

• Contextualizing a Neolithic Artifact

  Pelin Alkan
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Online Asynchronous

• From Silence to Story

  Gloria Mc Daniel Hall
  Workshop Presentation
  Room 2.2 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 11:50

Visitors

• Grief, Empathy, and Inclusion - How Museums Support Visitors Through Loss

  Katya Provornaya
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 13:20

• Memory Work in the Promotion of Contemporary Dialogue

  Hazel Gold
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Barriers and Possibilities for Visitors with Blindness through Accessible Online Exhibitions

  Letícia Marinho, Jessica Norberto Rocha
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Castle as a Museum - Heritage Presentation and Interpretation in Stirling Castle, Scotland

  Damian Werczyński
  Poster Session

• Museum Making Sense

  Jinyu Han, Paul Gault
  Innovation Showcase
  Room 2.4 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 13:00

• Viva GLAMs?!

  Melissa Redmond, Beth Martin
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Post-Curatorial Disruption(s)

  Madison Hough
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• White Entitlement in White Sanctuaries

  David G. Embrick
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Audience Journey of the Elderly in Czech Museums

  Markéta Nováková, Pavla Pospíšilová
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 15:40

• Art through the Eyes of Children

  Francesco Walker
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 13:00

• Public / Private

  Georgia Burns
  Workshop Presentation

• Reawakening the Past

  Sven Packmohr
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Maps, Stories, and Streets

  Chewasit Boonyakiet, Sarawan Vindubrahmanakul, Yupaporn Thanyawiwatkul, Worakarn Wongsuwan, Sirada Thiendej, Kusra Mukdawijitra
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Online Asynchronous

• Making Room at The Bronx Museum

  Patrick Rowe, Nell Klugman
  Workshop Presentation

• Moving Pieces

  Undi Gunawan, Teresia Hanna Sanjaya, July Hidayat
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Assessment of the Frontline Services of the National Museum of the Philippines

  Geneva Oaferina
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Museum Thresholds

  Yohana Frias
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• People as the Principle and Purpose of Museum Activity

  Íñigo Ayala Aizpuru
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 12:40

• Critical Posthumanism in Art Museums

  Megan Wanttie
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• A New Guided Tour for Generation Z

  Dalma Lilla Dominek
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Online Asynchronous

• Collaboration between Institutions and Disciplines as a Pathway for the Future

  Zvjezdana Antos
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Archaeology Alive

  Taylor Cwikla
  Innovation Showcase
  Online Asynchronous

• Art (Spaces) Imitates Life?

  Afruza Aminul
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Brain-Computer Interfaces and Inclusive Perception

  Antonella Rosmino
  Poster Session
  Online Asynchronous

• The MiniMuseums Companion

  Renata Keck, Greg Walsh
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Online Asynchronous

• The Attitudes of University Students with Dual Hungarian Citizenship towards Museums

  Anita Hegedus
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Online Asynchronous

• Cultural Linguistic Diversity in the Museum

  McKenna Jackson
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Online Asynchronous

• Reframing Success on Social Media

  Ellen Charlesworth
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 16:20

• The Influence of Art Museum Education Courses on Pre-Service Art Teachers in Singapore

  Agnieszka Chalas
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Collections

• Collecting to Forget

  Karolina Bukovskyte
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Institutional Caring for Community-based Art Works

  Rachel Mader, Siri Peyer
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 12:50

• Starting a Campus Museum

  Jeff Knight
  Poster Session

• Conserving by Engaging

  Hélène Verreyke, Ulrike Müller
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Data Lifeboat - Preserving Billions of Images on Flickr.com

  George Oates
  Innovation Showcase
  Room 2.4 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 15:40

• Reframing the Encounter

  Cecilia Järdemar
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Pasteur Institute in Tunis

  Houda Kohli Kallel
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Museums are the repositories of visual representations of the diverse urban environment to support cultural identity, cultural pluralism, and cultural distinctiveness

  Zartasha Shah
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Digitisation of Everything from Collection Objects to Intangible Ideas

  Anna Stein
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Archive of the Commons

  Joaquin Barriendos
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• What Does Home Mean to You?

  Louis Platman
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 15:40

• Towards Universal Design in Museums

  Zakia Hammouni
  Representations

• Smell on Display

  Ulrike Zitzlsperger
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Entering the Wardrobe

  Ann Rowson Love
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Reimagining Sound Archives

  Zhuolin Li, Wenyan Wang
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• An Analysis of Historical, Cultural and Spiritual Aspects Impacting the Interior Design of a Natural History Museum

  Inge Lize Weber
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Grief, Empathy, and Inclusion - How Museums Support Visitors Through Loss

  Katya Provornaya
  Visitors
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 13:20

• Staying Relevant

  Maja Rudloff
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Accessing Museum Collections in Contemporary Pakistan

  Noor Ahmed
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• The Para-Pedagogical

  Lleah Smith
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Online Asynchronous

• Youth Innovation Through Curatorial Collaboration

  Christina Alderman, Conor Moynihan
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Extending the Museum's Educational Mission into the University

  Audrey Fessler
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• The Opinion of Experts Regarding the Use of the Internet of Things on Museum Objects Standardized by CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model

  Aysouda Akesst, Amir Reza Asnafi
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Memory Work in the Promotion of Contemporary Dialogue

  Hazel Gold
  Visitors

• Designing for Participation

  Büşra Altıntepe
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 15:20

• Barriers and Possibilities for Visitors with Blindness through Accessible Online Exhibitions

  Letícia Marinho, Jessica Norberto Rocha
  Visitors

• Cut Paper, Food Barges and Ceramic Dragons

  Deborah Randolph
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Embedding Inclusive Practice in Museum Programmes

  Simon Dodi, Vanessa Weibel
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 15:40

• En Attendant Ars Aevi - Navigating Absence, Presence, and Cultural Resilience toward an Open-air Urban Museum

  Senka Ibrisimbegovic, Nermina Zagora
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Online Asynchronous

• Collecting to Forget

  Karolina Bukovskyte
  Collections

• Complex Context

  Skylar Masuda
  Representations

• Institutional Caring for Community-based Art Works

  Rachel Mader, Siri Peyer
  Collections
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 12:50

• Living Archive

  Melanie May, Elsa Franco Franco
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.2 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 15:40

• A Naturally-Occuring Ecomuseum in Polish Spisz

  Janusz Barański
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 12:50

• Connecting Through Culture

  Shubhani Shubhani
  Representations

• Unseen Angles

  Renato Trotta
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Transforming Museums into Wellbeing Tools with Neuroaesthetics

  Zoé Jiménez Corretjer
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• The MOCO Museum Network

  Paula Jaulín Lecina
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 13:20

• Gendered Governance and Financial Reporting Quality of Museum Foundations

  Christophe Van Linden
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Online Asynchronous

• The Architecture of Wandering

  Amos Bar-Eli
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 11:10

• Sustainable Museums and Cultural Sustainability

  Marina Sofia Papantonaki
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Museums, Libraries and Archives - Mapping the (In)tangible

  Ana Carvalho
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 15:00

• Conserving by Engaging

  Hélène Verreyke, Ulrike Müller
  Collections

• The Role of Multimedia Content Accessibility in Enhancing Museum Inclusivity

  Nikita Bolshakov
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Women, Technology, and the Museum

  Alena Podnebennaia
  Representations

• Viva GLAMs?!

  Melissa Redmond, Beth Martin
  Visitors

• Augmented Reality for Inclusive Arts and Culture

  Tommaso Santilli, Catia Giaconi, Simone Betti, Lorenzo Virgini
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Gatekeeping Curatorial Voice

  Laura-Edythe Coleman
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 11:10

• The W. E. B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Adam Holmes
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 10:30

• Post-Curatorial Disruption(s)

  Madison Hough
  Visitors

• Design Strategies for Children

  Amparo Alvarez, Mariana Lozada
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• White Entitlement in White Sanctuaries

  David G. Embrick
  Visitors

• Re-envisioning Oral History Archives as Tools for Self-Actualization and Collective Liberation through Research-Creation and Participatory Performance Art

  Gracia Dyer Jalea
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 16:00

• Improving Curatorial Practices Through the Dimensions of Curation Competing Values Model

  Xiaonan Jiang
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Online Asynchronous

• Audience Journey of the Elderly in Czech Museums

  Markéta Nováková, Pavla Pospíšilová
  Visitors
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 15:40

• Expanding the Art Museum Possibilities

  Irma L Uribe Santibáñez
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Subjectivity, Plurality, Transparency

  Lilian Cameron
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• The Contribution of Artistic and Heritage Activity to Education With a Focus on Interrelated Learning of Mathematics and Music

  Olga Souto
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• i-curation - How Curatorial Practices on Instagram May Provide a New Participatory Curatorial Model in Museums of Contemporary Art

  Simon Banos
  Representations

• Newid Byd | Something New

  Kate Allen, Nicholas Hollinworth, Gosia Kwiatkowska
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Online Asynchronous

• Museum of Language

  Sunshine Dlangamandla
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• LGBTQ+ Programming and Public Practice in a Major Museum

  Anastasia Sotnikova
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Museums as Living Labyrinths of Collective Imagination

  Isaac Mensah, Elizabeth Gilblom
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Mental Health in the Archive

  Vicky Palmer, Adam Barnard
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 13:10

• Are Museums Inclusive Places for Generally Excluded Social Groups?

  Nancy Rocio Rueda Esteban
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 16:20

• (Non-)Performative Decolonisation

  Giorgia Cacciatore
  Representations
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 10:30

• Art through the Eyes of Children

  Francesco Walker
  Visitors
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 13:00

• Reimagining the Academic Library as a Third Space

  Domen Žalac
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Say Their Names Exhibit + Research Project

  Virginia Thomas
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Participation of NGOs in Museum Management

  Željka Miklošević
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 13:00

• The Museology of Peacebuilding

  Bengi Atun
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Interpreting Interpretation

  Peter Dixon
  Representations
  Online Asynchronous

• An Ecosystem for Fashion Repositories

  Carolina Francesca Maria Davalli
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Online Asynchronous

• Reawakening the Past

  Sven Packmohr
  Visitors

• Interactivity and Spatial Narratives

  Julia Resende, Luiza Novaes
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Online Asynchronous

• Maps, Stories, and Streets

  Chewasit Boonyakiet, Sarawan Vindubrahmanakul, Yupaporn Thanyawiwatkul, Worakarn Wongsuwan, Sirada Thiendej, Kusra Mukdawijitra
  Visitors
  Online Asynchronous

• Sustainable Art Residences

  Piotr Sikora
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• I Am Matriarch - a Cross-Museum Platform for Feminist, Ethical, and Decolonial Storytelling

  Andrea Fernandez
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Museum Sources and Playful Elements in History Teaching

  Kornélia Jeszenszki
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage

  Jen Ross, Cate Schofield, Philippa Sheail, Melissa Terras
  Representations
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 15:00

• The Many Souls of a Cemetery

  Michelangelo Giampaoli
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Hearing History

  Teresa Neff
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Bridging Cultural Gaps

  Vanessa Cesário
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Generating a Healing Gallery

  Natasha S. Reid
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 13:30

• Restore a Museum

  José Nicolás Balbi
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Reframing the Encounter

  Cecilia Järdemar
  Collections

• Visual and Material Representations of Greek Post-war Labour Migration in Germany

  Christos Zisis
  Representations

• Moving Pieces

  Undi Gunawan, Teresia Hanna Sanjaya, July Hidayat
  Visitors

• Assessment of the Frontline Services of the National Museum of the Philippines

  Geneva Oaferina
  Visitors

• Museums for All

  Yassamin Kouraichi
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 16:00

• Given Time - Sensory Aesthetics of Reclamation

  Megan Alvarado Saggese
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Museum Thresholds

  Yohana Frias
  Visitors

• Inclusive Museum Education Project for Students with Visual Disabilities

  Gian Marco Girgenti, Sara Morena, Eleonora Mancuso
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• People as the Principle and Purpose of Museum Activity

  Íñigo Ayala Aizpuru
  Visitors
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 12:40

• Critical Posthumanism in Art Museums

  Megan Wanttie
  Visitors

• From Silos to Synergy?

  Geerd De Ceulaerde
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• A New Guided Tour for Generation Z

  Dalma Lilla Dominek
  Visitors
  Online Asynchronous

• Collaboration between Institutions and Disciplines as a Pathway for the Future

  Zvjezdana Antos
  Visitors

• Health and Happiness

  Anna Wong
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Reimagining Narratives with Local Communities and Cultural Institutions in A Coruña

  Francesco Aresti
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Inclusive Science Education and Inclusive Museums

  Senem Bas
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 16:00

• Reinforcing Marginality

  Nitya Sankhe
  Representations

• A Library and…

  Nomalanga Mahlangu
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Artificial Intelligence in Museum Education

  Jungwon Lee
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Reimagining Museum Spaces

  Raša Urbas
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Queering the Museum, Rethinking Curatorial Practices

  Maria Ejarque
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Art (Spaces) Imitates Life?

  Afruza Aminul
  Visitors

• The Construction of the Modern Museum in Brazil

  Luna Lobão
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Preserving Cities

  Athira Manoharan
  Representations

• Burdens of Resistance

  Sahar Tarighi
  Representations

• The MiniMuseums Companion

  Renata Keck, Greg Walsh
  Visitors
  Online Asynchronous

• Building Belongings in the City of Las Vegas

  Zida Wang
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Evaluating Community Voice Labels at the Cleveland Museum of Art

  Lingran Zhang
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• The Attitudes of University Students with Dual Hungarian Citizenship towards Museums

  Anita Hegedus
  Visitors
  Online Asynchronous

• Using Augmented Reality to Discover Community in the Borderlands

  Lisa Falk
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 10:50

• The Final Stop of Migrant Labor

  Yu-ling Ku
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Co-creating Radical Taxonomies

  Florence Okoye
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Museums as Practice not Place

  Lisa Enright
  Representations
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 10:50

• Strategies for Promoting Pre-Service Teachers’ Comfortability with Musuem-Based Learning Activities as a Way to Increase Museum Accessibility and Attendance for Young Children and Their Families

  Lauren Burrow
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.2 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 16:00

• Engaging Stakeholders, Shaping the Future

  Gesualda Iodice, Francesco Bifulco
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.2 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 16:20

• The Pasteur Institute in Tunis

  Houda Kohli Kallel
  Collections

• Reviving Thoughts

  Hedista Rani Pranata
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Meeting and Communicating Together Thanks to Museum Mediation

  Muriel Molinier
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• The Museum of Everyday Life

  Clare Dolan
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Museums for Health and Wellbeing

  Irene Pérez López
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 12:40

• Contextualizing a Neolithic Artifact

  Pelin Alkan
  Representations
  Online Asynchronous

• Community Access Scheme for Historic Royal Palaces

  Jatinder Kailey, Kim Klug
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 13:10

• Museums are the repositories of visual representations of the diverse urban environment to support cultural identity, cultural pluralism, and cultural distinctiveness

  Zartasha Shah
  Collections

• Mannequin Makeover

  Miriam Yeo
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• The Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Making Exhibitions More Accessible

  Christoph Kreinbucher Bekerle, Angela Fink
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Online Asynchronous

• A Care-ful Approach to Participatory Practices in Art Museums

  Judith Abellán Reina
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Teaching innovation at the University - the Muse_Com project, Museums and University

  Mónica Viñarás Abad, Juan Enrique Gonzálvez Vallés, Ana Pedreño Santos, José A. Ruiz San Román
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Cultural Linguistic Diversity in the Museum

  McKenna Jackson
  Visitors
  Online Asynchronous

• Community Museums - Engines of Identity and Connection for Cities

  Laura Gallardo
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Reframing Success on Social Media

  Ellen Charlesworth
  Visitors
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-15 16:20

• The Influence of Art Museum Education Courses on Pre-Service Art Teachers in Singapore

  Agnieszka Chalas
  Visitors

• The Digitisation of Everything from Collection Objects to Intangible Ideas

  Anna Stein
  Collections

Innovation Showcase

• Art and Emerging Technologies

  Trish Classe Gianakis
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Quinceañeras

  Angharad Valdivia
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Museum Making Sense

  Jinyu Han, Paul Gault
  Visitors
  Room 2.4 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 13:00

• Sensory Heritage - Bridging Culture, Memory, and Access through Sensory Practice

  Julia Collar
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Data Lifeboat - Preserving Billions of Images on Flickr.com

  George Oates
  Collections
  Room 2.4 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 15:40

• inART - an Inclusive Arts Project for People with Visual Impairments in Athens Municipal Gallery

  Loukia Chaidemenaki
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Latino cARTographies

  Pamela Anne Quiroz, Juana Guzman, Marisela Martinez
  Representations
  Room 2.4 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 13:20

• Reorienting Museums in Community

  Gabrielle Mangaser
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Wakhi Museum and Arts Gallery

  Ali Rehmat
  Representations

• Archives Against Stereotype

  Ellen Stone
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Clay Cycle - a Material Methodology

  Dena Bagi
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.4 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 12:40

• The "Then" and the "Now" in Urdu Graphic and Type Design

  Komal Salman
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Innovative Museography - Integrating Cross-cultural Narratives through Digital and Physical Spaces

  Irena Sertic
  Representations

• Innovative Re-use Scenario of a Digital Museum Object

  Tina Schneider
  Representations
  Room 2.4 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 16:00

• Archaeology Alive

  Taylor Cwikla
  Visitors
  Online Asynchronous

• Creating Virtual Exhibitions

  Zida Wang, Morgan Hamilton
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Inclusive Museum Spaces for Migrant Integration

  Sofia Canda
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• A Little History of the Sikhs

  Rav Singh
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.4 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 15:20

• 3D Printing & Cultural Spaces

  Samuel Foulkes, Tom Babinszki
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.4 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 15:00

Workshop Presentation

• Deaf & Voiced - Rewriting Cultural Narratives Through Inclusive Praxis

  Varvara Merenkova, Vlad Kolesnikov
  Representations

• Highlighting Sustainability Development Goals Associations with Cultural Heritage Institutions

  Lyndon Nixon
  Representations

• Public / Private

  Georgia Burns
  Visitors

• Making Room at The Bronx Museum

  Patrick Rowe, Nell Klugman
  Visitors

• Facing the Global Crisis Together

  Neus Crous Costa
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.3 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 11:50

• A Way of Encountering — Expressing and Listening Inclusively About Inclusion

  Hsuan Chi Liu
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• From Silence to Story

  Gloria Mc Daniel Hall
  Representations
  Room 2.2 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 11:50

Poster Session

• Curating Exclusion - Analyzing the Legacy of Redlining in Contemporary Museum Spaces

  William Gates
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation
  Room 2.1 (Second Floor) : 2025-09-17 11:50

• Starting a Campus Museum

  Jeff Knight
  Collections

• Castle as a Museum - Heritage Presentation and Interpretation in Stirling Castle, Scotland

  Damian Werczyński
  Visitors

• Reconstructing Disability Discourse in Museums

  Lirui Zhang
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Redefining Personalisation - AI-Enhanced Museum Experiences Through Social Interaction and Serendipity

  Danyang Li, Yimeng Li
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• The Play Office

  Catherine Paterson
  2025 Special Focus—Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums: Engines of Innovation and Social Participation

• Brain-Computer Interfaces and Inclusive Perception

  Antonella Rosmino
  Visitors
  Online Asynchronous

• Connecting and Collecting Tangible and Intangible Sporting Heritage

  Catherine Robins
  Representations

Grief, Empathy, and Inclusion - How Museums Support Visitors Through Loss

Katya Provornaya
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

This paper, based on my chapter for the Routledge Handbook of Museum and Heritage Education (2025), explores how museums can serve as spaces for healing, helping visitors navigate grief, and fostering empathy and inclusion. The COVID-19 pandemic amplified collective experiences of loss, underscoring the need for inclusive spaces that address and process grief. Loss manifests in various forms – such as the loss of health, meaningful relationships, and forced migration – and often remains socially neglected or overlooked, leaving individuals unsupported in their grieving process. Museums, as public institutions, have begun to embrace their role in supporting emotional well-being by offering programs that help individuals process their grief, adapt to life after loss, and build connections within their communities. This presentation draws on participatory learning theory, object-based learning frameworks, and grief studies to explore the transformative role museums play in nurturing empathy and social connection. Through three case studies—the Anchorage Museum (USA), the Whitworth (UK), and the Museum of Loss (UK)—the paper highlights how museums create inclusive spaces for reflection and healing. These case studies focus on addressing environmental loss, baby loss, and displacement and demonstrate how museums can engage visitors in empathetic, community-oriented experiences that support emotional well-being. By fostering an open, inclusive environment for visitors to process grief, museums can promote healing and resilience. This research emphasises the importance of creating spaces where every visitor feels seen, heard, and supported in their personal and collective journey through loss.

The Para-Pedagogical

Lleah Smith
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Inspired by Helguera’s (2010, 2011) 'Education as Art' and the para-curatorial theories of McDowell (2016) and Hoffmann (2011, 2013), this research introduces the para-pedagogical, my new neologism that reimagines the role of arts-rich pedagogies within cultural institutions. While the 'para' in para-curatorial is often perceived as 'lesser than' (Hoffmann, 2011, 2013; McDowell 2016), the 'para' in the para-pedagogical liberates pedagogy by freeing it from the constraints of exhibitions. This autonomy enables pedagogy to align with institutional missions and move with its own intentionality, positioning the para-pedagogical as a transformative framework for the GLAM sector to act as engines of innovation and social participation. By fostering sustainable, community-centered approaches, it empowers institutions to respond flexibly to evolving societal needs. The para-pedagogical reclaims education as a critical, relational practice driven by it's own intentionality, it emphasises slow, dialogical, and situated formats that nurture shared knowledge and material entanglements both with and beyond the institutional frame. By prioritising storied, embodied learning experiences, the para-pedagogical supports GLAM institutions in creating inclusive spaces for collaboration and dialogue. Aligned with the Reggio Emilia approach, the para-pedagogical prompts reflective questions such as, 'Who am I working for today?' and 'What opportunities are we hoping to afford?' (Alkhudhair, 2014). Through productive agitation (Smith, 2024), it fosters intellectual and ecological resilience, enabling institutions to decentralise knowledge systems and embrace non-Western and more-than-human epistemologies. The para-pedagogical transforms GLAM institutions into vital sites of social participation, advancing sustainability and equitable, innovative futures.

The MOCO Museum Network

Paula Jaulín Lecina
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

The contemporary art collection of Kim and Lionel Logchies, former dutch gallerists, has given rise to a museum network with locations in Amsterdam (2016), Barcelona (2021), and London (2024), all housed in historically significant buildings. This study examines the role of these collectors as patrons of contemporary art and their influence on redefining the museum as a hybrid and inclusive space where artistic exhibition, sensory experience and technological innovation converge. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this research explores the architectural and urban configuration of these museums, their management model and the curatorial strategies implemented to attract a broad and diverse audience. Particular attention is given to the interaction between art and the market, analyzing the impact of the MOCO brand in the cultural economy and its positioning within experiential tourism. Additionally, the study addresses the inclusivity / integration of new technologies and digital interactivity in contemporary museography, considering how these tools enhance accessibility, visitor engagement, and the dissemination of art in the digital environment. In this context, MOCO emerges as a paradigm of the 21st-century museum, characterized by the fusion of art and entertainment, the creation of immersive narratives and adaptation to the dynamics of cultural consumption in the age of social media. This analysis contributes to the reflection of the evolving concept of the museum and its role in the democratization of art.

Re-envisioning Oral History Archives as Tools for Self-Actualization and Collective Liberation through Research-Creation and Participatory Performance Art

Gracia Dyer Jalea
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

By responding to the current-day needs and interests of descendants, oral history interviews are resurrected from archives to become useful tools for self-actualization. Moving beyond mere remembrance into spaces for co-created futures, this study explores how oral history interviews can be used to break cycles and heal division so we can learn, grow and discover new pathways forward that don’t replicate harm from the past. Drawing on oral history, research-creation, autoethnography and ethnic studies articulated through the work of Filipinx scholars, this approach asks the reader to consider oral history interviews as more than historical texts. Through this approach they become valuable resources for descendants. As relics, they carry the potential to strengthen, repair and maintain relationships that have been severed due to colonial rule, displacement, separation, and death. Through oral history interviews and participatory performance art the sharing of stories and memories of the past moves beyond mere remembrance into spaces for co-created futures, where the burden of repair is a collective effort to listen, learn, engage with, and make sense of what was, so we can move forward into what could be. Through images, audio, and film, I share examples of oral history interviews recorded with my grandmother in 2008 that were re-visited and re-purposed in 2023 to produce two participatory art pieces that were performed at the Acts of Listening Lab at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling in Montreal, engaging my mother, daughter and I in a process of co-creation.

Are Museums Inclusive Places for Generally Excluded Social Groups?

Nancy Rocio Rueda Esteban
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

In the beginning, museums used to be places for elite and academic visitors, nonetheless, these institutions have evolved towards accessibility, inclusivity, and openness, to allow entrance to different groups of the community, and allow different voices in their exhibitions. But, to what point do museums still exclude people, who are at the same time socially excluded groups? What is the role of museums in the inclusion and awareness of these people in society? Homeless, victims, and migrants are generally groups of people excluded from the social life of cities. The objective of this research is to analyze whether museums consider socially excluded groups and how they try to construct the social fabric of cities with inclusive strategies in the capital city of Colombia, Bogotá, a place known as a receiving city for displaced people from the conflict and migrants, with difficult social issues. A qualitative methodology is used, first to identify the museums that apply inclusive strategies to these groups of people. Then in-depth interviews are made to understand activities and their impact on society.

Reimagining Narratives with Local Communities and Cultural Institutions in A Coruña

Francesco Aresti
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

This paper explores how cultural institutions can engage with local communities in processes of heritage interpretation through participatory practice. It focuses on an ongoing doctoral project centred on the UNESCO-listed lighthouse of the Tower of Hercules in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain), the Archaeology and History Museum, and local communities. The aim is to understand how narratives are used and reinterpreted by different community actors, and to foster collaboration between the museum, the UNESCO site, and local communities by highlighting lesser-known meanings that the lighthouse's associated legends hold today for the local population. The project is relevant both as a case of shared stewardship in heritage interpretation and as an example of cultural institutions’ interconnection with community memory and heritage transmission. Positioned within Heritage Studies and Citizen Humanities, the work engages with critical debates on museum collaboration and intangible heritage. Methodologically, it adopts a practice-based and qualitative approach grounded in collaborative planning. Activities are currently being co-designed with the museum and grassroots groups. The next stages involve working with local associations through museum workshops, using tools such as collective storytelling, memory mapping, and audio-visual documentation to support oral history collection and transmission. Preliminary outcomes show strong potential for reconnecting institutional narratives with diverse experiences, while challenges include overcoming ingrained official discourses and adapting to varied participant backgrounds. The project suggests that cultural institutions can serve as inclusive hubs for engagement, enabling space for diverse memories and voices within museum displays.

Engaging Stakeholders, Shaping the Future

Gesualda Iodice, Francesco Bifulco
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

This study investigates the effects generated by the interaction of museums with the reference community. The research is centered on analyzing and evaluating stakeholder strategies employed by a single case study, the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN) through a gap analysis based on the investigation of three main drivers: identity, image, and reputation. The research adopts a qualitative approach implemented through action research. Specifically, the authors submitted a semi-structured questionnaire to a shortlist of selected Opinion Leaders. The evidence returns a photograph of cultural institutions perceived as places of welcome and inclusiveness, a cultural hub around whose core gravitates multiple heterogeneous networks that share the mission of urban regeneration and artistic dissemination. Therefore, this study offers cultural institutions as value-creating attractors of social, cultural, economic, and qualifiable as (a) connectivity enablers; (b) aggregators; and (c) activators of relational places, in physical and virtual contexts.

Museums are the repositories of visual representations of the diverse urban environment to support cultural identity, cultural pluralism, and cultural distinctiveness

Zartasha Shah
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Museums are the repositories of visual representations of the diverse environment of urban communities. The process is expected to support cultural identity, cultural pluralism, and cultural distinctiveness. The importance of the representations of new ideas, artistic approaches, and creativity can be seen through the physical representation of the artworks in traditional and non-traditional ways in education. The new learnings should be able to support the modern and contemporary ideas of creativity for making the artworks to educate, inform, and explain the nature of the priorities at museums. This research aims to investigate the importance of representations in urban museums. The research will also inform more about Critical Race Theory to support the values of the ethnicity of ethnic artists for cultural identities, individuality, and integrity in education. A process to support the conservation, preservation, and protection of the artifacts provides more details about the priorities at the urban museum. The data collection by interviewing the participants to know their thoughts about each part will be able to support the research. The research will revolve around qualitative methods, ethnography, ethnographic research open-ended questions, transcribed semi-structured interviews, and coded transcriptions. The analysis will provide the details of each part of the research by drawing on the responses of the participants. The implications and discussion will inform more information about the results and their outcome.

A Care-ful Approach to Participatory Practices in Art Museums

Judith Abellán Reina
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This paper analyzes citizen participation in art museums as a care tool designed to engage with local communities. Specifically, the research focuses on the case study of the health program ‘Cuid’Art’ at the Garrotxa Museum (Catalonia, Spain). The aim is to examine its impact on all parties involved and to evaluate the role and significance of the museum in its surrounding community. In Catalonia, many museums have embraced citizen participation as a primary strategy to connect with their audiences. However, despite its democratic and pedagogical potential, many of these initiatives lack a coherent framework to standardize criteria, theories and models that could guide museum practitioners. This research seeks to establish indicators for assessing their influence and effectiveness, aiming to serve as a valuable and practical tool to enhance the Catalan museum sector. Using a qualitative approach and an ethnographic fieldwork based on participant observation, interviews, and focus groups, the ‘Cuid’Art’ program is analyzed to comprehend the uses, interpretations, and behaviors that shape participatory processes as ‘care work’ in museums. Thus, the project exemplifies participation from a site-specific standpoint, meaning that it is designed to meet the needs of the people and the organizations in the surrounding areas. Although participants’ sense of agency may be limited, the program highlights the experiences of a vulnerable group using art as a transformative tool. Ultimately, it reflects the museum’s commitment to social care and well-being, connecting participants with the institution, objects and space in an intimate, safe, accessible and inclusive way.

Reframing Success on Social Media

Ellen Charlesworth
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There is a prevalent belief in the UK museum sector that posting on social media helps museums reach larger and more diverse audiences. However, recent studies have shown that museums’ online audiences are generally no more diverse than their on-site counterparts. Our research analyses over 3,400 UK museums’ social media accounts over two years to investigate why this is the case. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, we use statistical analysis alongside supporting interviews with museum professionals to ask which digital strategies work. Moving beyond the strategies of ‘superstar’ museums with large digital teams and significant resources at their disposal, we explore how social media success may look across the entire sector. After outlining general trends in the data, we will spotlight the successes and innovative practices of two groups of museums: those based in rural Scotland and transport museums. These two examples saw – somewhat unexpectedly – large and highly engaged international audiences throughout the pandemic. By looking in-depth at their online offering, we explore how they were able to cultivate an open dialogue with online audiences and converted online engagement into on-site visits. Situating these examples in lessons from the wider sector, we aim to provide clear takeaways for museums and outline a different model of social media success.