CoMuseum International Conference
MUSEUMS AND HOPE
3 – 5 DECEMBER 2025
The 15th International CoMuseum Conference concluded successfully, marking a special anniversary edition that brought together museum and cultural professionals from around the world for three days of dialogue, learning, and collective reflection.
Under the theme “Museums and Hope,” this year’s conference invited us to look back on our fifteen years anniversary and the transformative museum practice, while simultaneously imagining the future of museums as spaces of care, imagination, healing, resilience, and social responsibility.
Through a diverse programme of keynote talks, panel discussions, masterclasses, and participatory workshops, we explored urgent and timely questions:
How can museums move beyond reaction and act meaningfully in times of uncertainty?
How can cultural institutions support communities facing social, political, and environmental challenges?
And how can museums remain hopeful, relevant, and grounded while navigating an unpredictable future?
The conference became a shared space for exchange, critical thinking, and collaboration—where diverse perspectives met, challenging us to rethink the role of museums not only as cultural institutions, but as active agents in shaping more just and inclusive futures.
Stay connected with the CoMuseum as we plan further activities in the coming months, and mark your calendars for the next CoMuseum Conference, taking place 2–4 December 2026.
CoMuseum 2025 brought together approximately 960 participants, attending both in person and online. Through keynote sessions, panels, masterclasses, and participatory workshops, the conference became a space for meaningful conversations on hope, responsibility, and the evolving role of museums in times of global change.
Photos by Nefeli Papaioannou (Athens) and Pavlos Makridis (Thessaloniki)
THE CONFERENCE: MEET CULTURAL PROFESSIONALS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE
Invited speakers are innovators, daring changemakers and strong advocates of the power that culture has on people’s lives. They are determined to multiply this power by sharing their most valuable expertise and experience.
THE WORKSHOPS: THINK AND DO; TOGETHER
Participants work together to find solutions on common challenges in the field of cultural production. As a core part of the conference, the workshops use new models of learning together at the intersection of culture, activism, education, creativity, entrepreneurship, solidarity, urbanism and social innovation.
DELEGATION PROGRAMME
The Satellite Programme is a series of additional visits and conversations that takes place on the second day of the CoMuseum conference, and enables further networking, creates more opportunities and connects international guests with the local arts and culture community in Athens.
ORGANISED BY
IN COLLABORATION WITH
UNDER THE AUSPICES
ACCESSIBILITY SPONSOR
SUPPORTER
BENAKI MUSEUM STRATEGIC PARTNER
BENAKI MUSEUM OFFICIAL HOSPITALITY SPONSOR
BENAKI MUSEUM OFFICIAL AIR CARRIER SPONSOR
SPONSOR OF NETWORKING EVENT
BENAKI MUSEUM OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION SPONSOR
BENAKI MUSEUM PERMANENT COMMUNICATION SPONSORS
