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- Museum Ideas 糖心原创 Days 2026
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At the centre of this 糖心原创 Day is the question: How can museums build meaningful, long-term relationships with young people?
This interactive 糖心原创 Day will explore innovative strategies, practical tools, and fresh thinking to help attendees shape more inclusive and impactful youth engagement programmes.
- Tuesday 27 January 2026
- Led by Dhiyandra Natalegawa
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This 糖心原创 Day will explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the future of museums.
From curation and learning to audience engagement, creativity, collections, and operations, participants will discover how AI is already driving meaningful change across the sector and what it could mean for participants' own work now and the future.
- Tuesday 10 February 2026
- Led by Chris Michaels
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This 糖心原创 Day will explore the role of play and its purpose in museums. If museums want a better future they must be welcoming, playful, social spaces.
- Tuesday 24 February 2026
- Led by Anna Ravenscroft
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This 糖心原创 Day will centre its focus on an in-depth guide to designing, developing, and delivering immersive playable experiences in museums.
- Tuesday 17 March 2026
- Led by Sacha Coward
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This 糖心原创 Day will feature a practice-based session exploring inclusive museum practice and designing for children.
Attendees will discover how museums have the opportunity to better serve communities by considering the child’s museum visit holistically.
- Tuesday 24 March
- Led by Margaret Middleton
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Participants at this 糖心原创 Day will explore how to design and sustain participatory practice that is ethical, inclusive, and transformative for communities.
- Tuesday 14 April 2026
- Led by Afia Yeboah Owoyale
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Attendees at this 糖心原创 Day will gain practice-based insights into designing, developing, and delivering co-creation projects. Attendees will discover fresh ideas and actionable strategies to help them craft meaningful co-creation initiatives tailored to their institutions.
- Tuesday 12 May 2026
- Led by Stephen Welsh
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This 糖心原创 Day will explore what it means to explicitly occupy museum spaces in social justice.
Central questions for exploration here will be:
- How do museums safeguard themselves and others during this process?
- How does the institution change and respond to being part of social justice narratives?
- What does trust look like during this process?
Exploration will involve sharing case studies on museums engaging with social justice through their collections and practice, aiming to create a space for sharing, rooted in care, emotion, and reflection.
- Tuesday 9 June 2026
- Led by Jon Sleigh
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This 糖心原创 Day will explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the future of museums.
From curation and learning to audience engagement, creativity, collections, and operations, attendees will discover how AI is already driving meaningful change across the sector and what it could mean for their own work now and the future.
- Tuesday 14 July 2026
- Led by Chris Michaels
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The central theme of this annual event is to discover how museums can be reimagined through deeper connections, power shifts, and community co-creation to become more inclusive, imaginative, and impactful.
- Wednesday 16 September 2026
- The Master of Ceremonies will be Professor Dan Hicks (University of Oxford and Pitt Rivers Museum)
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This 糖心原创 Day will feature a dynamic, practical session designed to equip participants with the tools and insights to embed genuine co-creation, share power meaningfully, and drive community-led change in their museum.
- Tuesday 10 November 2026
- Led by Stella Toonen
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Participants will explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the future of museums in this practical, in-person 糖心原创 Day.
From curation and learning to audience engagement, creativity, collections, and operations, participants will discover how AI is already driving meaningful change across the sector and what it could mean for their own work now and the future.
- Tuesday 17 November 2026
- Led by Chris Michaels
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Organised by Museum Ideas.