Statutory Meeting: 85th ICOM Advisory Council Meeting

Date: 9:30-12:00, Sunday, 1 September
Venue: Main Hall (Level 1)
Overview: The Advisory Council consists of the Chairpersons of National and International Committees, Regional Alliances, and Affiliated Organisations. It will meet in Kyoto to debate about policies, programmes, procedures and finances of ICOM.

Statutory Meeting: 85th ICOM Advisory Council Meeting

Date: 13:30-15:00, Sunday, 1 September
Venue: Main Hall (Level 1)
Overview: The Advisory Council consists of the Chairpersons of National and International Committees, Regional Alliances, and Affiliated Organisations. It will meet in Kyoto to debate about policies, programmes, procedures and finances of ICOM.

Statutory Meeting: Separate Meeting of ICOM National Committees

Date: 15:30-17:30, Sunday, 1 September
Venue: Room A (Level 2)
Overview: The Boards of the ICOM Committees get together to discuss committees’ matters.

Statutory Meeting: Separate Meeting of ICOM International Committees

Date: 15:30-17:30, Sunday, 1 September
Venue: Room B-1 (Level 2)

ICOM International Committees Board Meetings

Date: 18:00-20:00, Sunday, 1 September
Venue: ICC Kyoto

Ceremony: Opening of the 25th ICOM General Conference @Kyoto International Conference Center

Date: 9:30-10:55, Monday, 2 September
Venue: Main Hall (Level 1) (Live Broadcasting: Sakura / Room A / Room E)

Keynote Speech: Kengo Kuma

Date: 10:55-11:25, Monday, 2 September
Venue: Main Hall (Level 1) (Live Broadcasting: Sakura / Room A / Room E)
Overview: World-renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma 2016 was awarded with the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in 2016 and is the founder of the firm Kengo Kuma & Associates. Kuma’s works, such as the Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center or the V&A Dundee, stunningly blend into their natural and cultural landscape.

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Plenary Session: Curating Sustainable Futures Through Museums

Date: 11:45-13:15, Monday, 2 September
Venue: Main Hall (Level 1) (Live Broadcasting: Sakura / Room A / Room E)
Overview: Considering the various local and global aspects of sustainability, this session will explore different paths and innovative strategies that museums are following and can follow to support society to meet unprecedented challenges. So much has been achieved, and so much more can be achieved, as museums are at the nexus between tradition, innovation and communities to nurture sustainable futures. All museums have a part to play, and through working together we can maximise our collective impact and benefit. This panel will encourage all participants to consider how they can get involved in creating this shared story of positive transformation.

Workshop: Publishing and Writing Workshop - How to get your work published in scholarly and professional publications

Date: 11:45-13:15, Monday, 2 September
Venue: Room H (Level 1)
Overview: The aim of this workshop is to assist museum professionals and researchers in getting their proposals selected and their work published in scholarly and professional journals and books. It will also give an overview of today’s scholarly publishing environment in terms of open access policies, copyright clearance and publishing ethics.

Museum Fair and Expo Forum

Date: 12:30-18:00, Monday, 2 September
Venue: Event Hall / New Hall / Annex Hall
Overview: The Museums Fair and Expo Forum is an international trade event with hundreds of exhibitors and an audience of over 3,000 visitors aimed to show you new products and museum solutions.

Networking Session: ICOM Newcomers Session

Date: 13:30-14:30, Monday, 2 September
Venue: Room I (Level 2)
Overview: The welcome session is open to all new ICOM members who wish to know more about our international organisation, together with its institutional processes, missions and activities.

ICOM Committees Conferences

Date: 14:30-16:00, Monday, 2 September
Venue: ICC Kyoto & Inamori Memorial Hall
Overview: The ICOM Committees get together to discuss the challenges that museums are facing today.

Workshop: Curating Sustainable Futures Through Museums

Date: 14:30-16:00, Monday, 2 September
Venue: Room E (Level 1)
Overview: This workshop is aimed at anyone interested in exploring how museums can create better social, cultural and environmental futures, locally and globally. Participants will contribute to a manifesto for museum workers, on ‘Museums for the Future’. Participants will also explore their own museums’ ‘superpower’ and contribution to sustainability, and how their roles can support planetary wellbeing.

Panel: Decolonisation and Restitution - Moving towards a more holistic perspective and relational approach 1

Date: 14:30-16:00, Monday, 2 September
Venue: Main Hall (Level 1)
Overview: The aim of these two concurrent sessions is to enable participants to develop a holistic view of decolonisation which includes, but is not limited to, issues of restitution. The session will help participants trace and map new and different ways of seeing and thinking around these issues; and provide new methods of creative problem solving and new approaches to conflict resolution.  These sessions will also be used as the basis for understanding how ICOM as an international network can support relationships building among communities of interest and facilitate knowledge exchange.

ICOM Committees conferences

Date: 16:30-18:00, Monday, 2 September
Venue: ICC Kyoto & Inamori Memorial Hall
Overview: The ICOM Committees get together to discuss the challenges that museums are facing today.

Panel: Decolonisation and Restitution - Moving towards a more holistic perspective and relational approach 2

Date: 16:30-18:00, Monday, 2 September
Venue: Main Hall (Level 1)
Overview: The aim of these two concurrent sessions is to enable participants to develop a holistic view of decolonisation which includes, but is not limited to, issues of restitution. The session will help participants trace and map new and different ways of seeing and thinking around these issues; and provide new methods of creative problem solving and new approaches to conflict resolution.  These sessions will also be used as the basis for understanding how ICOM as an international network can support relationships building among communities of interest and facilitate knowledge exchange.

Ceremony: Opening Party of the 25th ICOM General Conference

Date: 18:30-20:30, Monday, 2 September
Venue: Main Hall, Swan Banquet Hall and Garden
Overview: During the Opening Party, participants will have the chance to meet and to enjoy the traditional Japanese culture.

Museum Fair and Expo Forum

Date: 9:00-18:00, Tuesday, 3 September
Venue: Event Hall / New Hall / Annex Hall
Overview: The Museums Fair and Expo Forum is an international trade event with hundreds of exhibitors and an audience of over 3,000 visitors aimed to show you new products and museum solutions.

Keynote Speech: Sebastião Salgado

Date: 9:00-10:00, Tuesday, 3 September
Venue: Main Hall (Level 1) (Live Broadcasting: Sakura)
Overview: The works of award-winning photographer Sebastião Salgadohave been and continue to be presented in museums and galleries throughout the world. The Brazilian photographer is currently working on a project on the theme of the Brazilian Amazon forest and its inhabitants, the indigenous communities. 

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Plenary Session: The Museum Definition - The backbone of ICOM

Date: 10:30-12:00, Tuesday, 3 September
Venue: Main Hall (Level 1) (Live Broadcasting: Sakura)
Overview: Over recent decades museums have adjusted, transformed, and re-invented their purpose, policies and practices, to the point where the ICOM museum definition no longer seems to reflect our challenges and manifold visions and responsibilities. In this plenum ICOM will bring together network experts and external voices to discuss about the overall need for a change in the museum definition and of the visions and potentials for a new definition.

Workshop: Digital and Smart - Creating and running communications campaigns and partnerships

Date: 10:30-12:00, Tuesday, 3 September
Venue: Room D (Level 1)
Overview: The aim of this workshop is to provide participants with the basics and the tools needed to create and execute compelling digital communications campaigns and establish meaningful co-communications with partners. The main focus of this workshop is to communicate smart: achieving the highest impact while being the most time effective.

Networking Session: Let experience inspire you! ICOM Mentoring Session

Date: 12:30-13:30, Tuesday, 3 September
Venue: Room A (Level 2)
Overview: This Mentoring Session is to gather experienced and young international museum professionals around five relevant museum topics:
1. Conservation,
2. Education,
3. Management,
4. Communication and Marketing as well as
5. Curatorship.
Selected Mentors from the ICOM Community will provide first hand insight into their professional careers, and give examples of challenges and opportunities they encounter/ed. They will also openly discuss current issues and questions with their respective groups. Although this session targets young ICOM members who were awarded a grant to attend ICOM Kyoto 2019, it is open to all curious conference participants.

Workshop: ICOM through the Lens - Membership database workshop for ICOM Committees managers - how to start using IRIS

Date: 12:30-13:30, Tuesday, 3 September
Venue: Room 665 (Level 6)
Overview: This workshop aims to illustrate the functionalities of the ICOM database (IRIS) in order to support the National Committees’ Managers in its daily management. Practical cases will be discussed.

ICOM Committees Conferences

Date: 13:30-16:00, Tuesday, 3 September
Venue: ICC Kyoto & Inamori Memorial Hall
Overview: The ICOM Committees get together to discuss the challenges that museums are facing today.

ICOM Committee Conferences: ICOM Memorial Lecture Stephen E. Weil

Date: 13:30-14:30, Tuesday, 3 September
Venue: Room C-2 (Level 1)
Overview: The Stephen E. Weil Memorial Lecture commemorates the work of this outstanding pioneer and author in museum studies, recognized for his contribution to the world of museums and the development of the profession. Since 2006, the organizers of the lectures have invited eminent figures from the sector of museums and culture to present a paper that considers the role of museums in contemporary society and to provide new perspectives for museums and their professionals. This year, the lecture is organized by ICOM, ICOM US and the ICOM International Committee on Management (INTERCOM).

Workshop: The Backbone of Museums? Roundtables on a New Museum Definition 1

Date: 14:30-16:00, Tuesday, 3 September
Venue: Sakura (Level 1)
Overview: In this roundtable session, the Museum Definition, Prospects and Potentials Committee (MDPP) will facilitate a discussion of the need for a new museum definition, which is more in tune with the challenges and the opportunities of the current times.
A focus will be on how a new museum definition can strengthen, support and guide museums as they navigate the complex and often conflicted societal challenges and responsibilities of the 21st century, but also, and not least, as they explore the rich future potentials.

Statutory Meeting: Open Forum for Resolutions

Date: 14:30-16:00, Tuesday, 3 September
Venue: Main Hall (Level 1)
Overview: ICOM members will get together to draft resolutions on challenges that the global museum community is facing today. The resolutions will be submitted to the vote of the General Assembly.

ICOM Committees Conferences

Date: 16:30-18:00, Tuesday, 3 September
Venue: ICC Kyoto & Inamori Memorial Hall
Overview: The ICOM Committees get together to discuss the challenges that museums are facing today.

Workshop: The Backbone of Museums? Roundtables on a New Museum Definition 2

Date: 16:30-18:00, Tuesday, 3 September
Venue: Sakura (Level 1)
Overview: In this roundtable session, the Museum Definition, Prospects and Potentials Committee  (MDPP) will facilitate a discussion of the need for a new museum definition, which is more in tune with the challenges and the opportunities of the current times.
A focus will be on how a new museum definition can strengthen, support and guide museums as they navigate the complex and often conflicted societal challenges and responsibilities of the 21st century, but also, and not least, as they explore the rich future potentials.

Social Event @Nijo Castle

Date: 19:00-21:00, Tuesday, 3 September
Venue: Nijo-jo Castle
Overview: During the social event, participants will have the chance to meet and to discover the full width of the cultural heritage of Kyoto and having great networking opportunities

Noh & Kyogen Performances

Date: Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:00 to 21:00
Venue: Kongo Noh Theater
Overview: On September 3-4, Nohgaku performances will be presented at the Kongoh Nohgakudo Theatre and the Kyoto Kanze Noh Theater for the enjoyment of ICOM Kyoto attendees. Nohgaku, which includes both Noh and Kyogen, is one of Japan’s traditional performing arts. Because the costumes and language of performances remain almost entirely unchanged since the Muromachi period (14th-16th centuries), Nohgaku has been described as the world’s oldest theatrical art in existence and is recognised by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage. You should be able to enjoy the programmes chosen for presentation even if you have never seen a Nohgaku performance before and English commentary will be provided (free; pre-registration required).

Museum Fair and Expo Forum

Date: 9:00-18:00, Wednesday, 4 September
Overview: The Museums Fair and Expo Forum is an international trade event with hundreds of exhibitors and an audience of over 3,000 visitors aimed to show you new products and museum solutions.

Plenary Session: Museums in Times of Disaster

Date: 9:00-10:15, Wednesday, 4 September
Venue: Main Hall (Level 1) (Live Broadcasting: Sakura)
Overview: In the event of a major disaster museums should react in an effective, conscious and rapid way. To be able to save lives and cultural heritage, they should analyse and prepare response mechanisms. This plenary session provides a forum to share experiences, to discuss the challenges and threats that museums are facing, and to explore the opportunities of international cooperation and knowledge exchange.

Keynote Speech: Cai Guo-Qiang

Date: 10:30-11:00, Wednesday, 4 September
Venue: Main Hall (Level 1) (Live Broadcasting: Sakura)
Overview: The work of Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang crosses a vast array of mediums including drawing, installation, video, and performance, is best known for his innovative use of gunpowder and controlled explosions. Cai’s artworks respond to culture and history and establish an exchange between viewers and the larger universe around them.

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Plenary Session: Asian Art Museums & Collection in the World

Date: 11:00-12:15, Wednesday, 4 September
Venue: Main Hall (Level 1) (Live Broadcasting: Sakura)
Overview: With the growing number of ICOM memberships from Asian countries, ICOM Kyoto 2019 provides the ideal chance to consider the significance of Asian art museums and collection, how they might better connect to local and foreign audiences, and how they can benefit by coordinating with international colleagues around the world in the future. This session also considers the case study of Asian art, examining recent moves to promote deeper understanding of Asian art in museums around the world.

Networking Session: Let experience inspire you! ICOM Mentoring Session

Date: 12:30-13:30, Wednesday, 4 September
Venue: Room A (Level 2)
Overview: This Mentoring Session is to gather experienced and young international museum professionals around five relevant museum topics:
1. Conservation,
2. Education,
3. Management,
4. Communication and Marketing as well as
5. Curatorship.
Selected Mentors from the ICOM Community will provide first hand insight into their professional careers, and give examples of challenges and opportunities they encounter/ed. They will also openly discuss current issues and questions with their respective groups. Although this session targets young ICOM members who were awarded a grant to attend ICOM Kyoto 2019, it is open to all curious conference participants.

Workshop: ICOM through the Lens - Membership database workshop for ICOM International Committees managers - how to start using IRIS

Date: 12:30-13:30, Wednesday, 4 September
Venue: Room 676 (Level 6)
Overview: This workshop aims to illustrate the functionalities of the ICOM database (IRIS) in order to support the International Committees’ Managers in its daily use. Practical cases will be discussed.

ICOM Committees Conferences

Date: 13:30-16:00, Wednesday, 4 September
Venue: ICC Kyoto & Inamori Memorial Hall
Overview: The ICOM Committees get together to discuss the challenges that museums are facing today.

Panel: Possibilities and Impossibilities of Exhibiting Manga/Comic: A comparison between Manga/comic exhibitions in the UK, South Korea, and Japan

Date: 14:30-16:00, Wednesday, 4 September
Venue: Main Hall (Level 1)
Overview: The panel discussion aims to explore the idea of exhibiting Manga/comic from various perspectives by comparing and discussing previous Manga exhibitions in the UK, South Korea, and Japan. Discussing exhibitionary practices of Manga can illuminate the challenges and opportunities faced by museums today, which include the binaries between “Digital and Analog”, “Popular Culture and Fine Art”, and “Culture and Industry”.

ICOM Committees Conferences

Date: 16:30-18:00, Wednesday, 4 September
Venue: ICC Kyoto & Inamori Memorial Hall
Overview: The ICOM Committees get together to discuss the challenges that museums are facing today.

Panel: Museum and Local Development

Date: 16:30-18:00, Wednesday, 4 September
Venue: Main Hall (Level 1)
Overview: With this aim, this panel as a joint session by ICOM and OECD aims at bringing together the representatives of museums and local governments in order to discuss various aspect of the relationship between museums, communities and local governments and explore future strategies in developing stronger policies and action plans to better implement their local and sustainable development agendas.

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Social Event @Kitayama Area

Date: 18:00-21:00, Wednesday, 4 September
Venue: Kitayama Area
Overview: During the social event, participants will have the chance to meet and to discover the full width of the cultural heritage of Kyoto and having great networking opportunities.

ICOM×PechaKucha Night Kyoto
Theme: Communities and Museums

Date: 18:15-20:40, Wednesday, 4 September
Venue: Kyoto Institute, Library and Archives (Rekisaikan)

Noh & Kyogen Performances

Date: Wednesday, 4 September 2019 19:00 to 21:00
Venue: Kyoto Kanze Noh Theater
Overview: On September 3-4, Nohgaku performances will be presented at the Kongoh Nohgakudo Theatre and the Kyoto Kanze Noh Theater for the enjoyment of ICOM Kyoto attendees. Nohgaku, which includes both Noh and Kyogen, is one of Japan’s traditional performing arts. Because the costumes and language of performances remain almost entirely unchanged since the Muromachi period (14th-16th centuries), Nohgaku has been described as the world’s oldest theatrical art in existence and is recognised by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage. You should be able to enjoy the programmes chosen for presentation even if you have never seen a Nohgaku performance before and English commentary will be provided (free; pre-registration required).

Off-site Meetings of ICOM Committees

Date: 9:00-18:00, Thursday, 5 September
Overview: The International Committees organise their own annual meetings in different locations across Japan.

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Social Event @Okazaki Area

Date: 19:00-21:00, Thursday, 5 September
Venue: Okazaki Area
Overview: During the social event, participants will have the chance to meet and to discover the full width of the cultural heritage of Kyoto and having great networking opportunities.

Social event: Excursions

Date: 9:00-18:00, Friday, 6 September
Overview: More than 40 tours will give the change to the Conference participants to discover the city and the prefecture of Kyoto and the Kansai area.

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Statutory Meeting: Extraordinary General Assembly

Date: 19:30-10:30, Saturday, 7 September
Venue: Main Hall (Level 1)

Statutory Meeting: 34th ICOM General Assembly

Date: 11:00-13:30, Saturday, 7 September
Venue: Main Hall (Level 1)
Overview: The General Assembly is the representation of the members and the decision-making body of ICOM. It votes on the Annual Report and the Financial Statements.

Statutory Meeting: 86th ICOM Advisory Council Meeting

Date: 14:45-16:00, Saturday, 7 September
Venue: Main Hall (Level 1)
Overview: The Advisory Council consists of the Chairpersons of National and International Committees, Regional Alliances, and Affiliated Organisations. It will meet in Kyoto to debate about policies, programmes, procedures and finances of ICOM.

Late opening for participants at Kyoto National Museum

Date: 17:30-21:00, Saturday, 7 September
Venue: Kyoto National Museum

Ceremony: Closing Party of the 25th ICOM General Conference at Kyoto National Museum

Date: 19:00-21:00, Saturday, 7 September
Venue: Kyoto National Museum

Ceremony: Closing Ceremony of the 25th ICOM General Conference at Kyoto National Museum

Date: 19:15-20:00
Venue: Kyoto National Museum