NEMO Webinar | Michael Peter Edson | Create Dangerously  Museums in the Age of Action
Channel: NEMO - Network of European Museum Organisations
Date: 2023-02-20

In the NEMO Webinar, speaker Michael Peter Edson, Digital Cultural Strategist, challenged the participants' view of museums and their purpose in the modern age. Our ideas about what a museum is and does were developed in slower, simpler times. But the realities of 2023 - including the climate emergency, armed conflict in Europe, and global technological and social change reveal gaps and flaws in the traditional boundaries of our work.

Building on his inspiring keynote speech at the 2022 NEMO European Museum Conference, Michael Peter Edson’s webinar "Create Dangerously: Museums in the Age of Action" argues that we need to dramatically update our concept of museum practice if we are to create a meaningful response to today’s most important questions about culture, society and change.

How will we get across The Big Frikin’ Wall that separates conventional museum practice from deep engagement with societal challenges? And what can museum workers do to get action started regardless of their position, authority, or pay? 

Access the slides on NEMO's website: www.ne-mo.org/news/article/nemo/now-online-nemo-webinar-on-modern-museum-practice-and-climate-change

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