Rethinking museums – #3 – Building an inclusive museum

The Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives is proud to present “Rethinking museums”, a series of webinars on a range of questions encountered by museums in France and Sri Lanka, taking place December 1st to 8th, 2021.

Session 3 – Creating a museum

ow do museums interact with society? How can civil society and activists fit within museum practices? How can we build museum policies that are inclusive of other communities and audiences? How can outreach programs play a role?

Speakers:

00:00 Introduction
03:55 Presentation by Pap Ndiaye, Director general at the Palais de la Porte Dorée, Historian, Professor at Sciences Po Paris
19:58 Presentation by Vindhya Buthpitiya, Associate Lecturer at the University of St Andrews and Curator at Museum of Religious Freedom
31:02 Presentation by Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Chief curator and director of mediation and cultural programmes at the Musée du Louvre
47:38 Presentation by Periyasamy Muthulingam, Director of Institute of Social Development-Tea Plantation Workers Museum
1:03:05 Questions and Answers with the public

Moderated by Aurélia Collard, Cultural Attachée

This discussion is organized by the Embassy of France to Sri Lanka and the Maldives with the support of ARTRA Magazine and Daily ARTRA as official art partners, The Morning – Brunch as digital media partner, Academy Of Design – AOD, Institut Français and the network of Alliance françaises in Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

Full program and registration links: https://lk.ambafrance.org/Rethinking-museums-1-8-December-2021