Whether you work in public programming, interpretation, education, or strategic leadership, Museum Ideas 2026 is an opportunity to reflect, recharge, and reimagine museums

Join museum colleagues from around the world in London on 16 September 2026 for a day of shared learning, fresh perspectives, and international insights. Delegates from 17 countries attended the 2025 edition of the conference. Book tickets now to benefit from the early-bird rate and be part of the conversation shaping the future of museums.

Professor Dan Hicks, University of Oxford, will once again chair the conference, marking his fifth year leading the annual Museum Ideas event. Dan is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, where he works on the material and visual culture of the human past, up to and including the modern, colonial, contemporary and digital worlds. He has been a curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, since 2007, where his wide-ranging curatorial practice has included the co-curated exhibition and book Lande: The Calais “Jungle” and Beyond. The author and editor of nine books, Dan is internationally recognised for his work on museums, heritage, and restitution. His acclaimed book The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution (2020) was described as “landmark cultural moment”, “an essential text” that “should be on every museum professional’s shelf”. His latest book, Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting, published by Penguin, is out now.

Call for Speakers: Museum Ideas 2026

We are now inviting proposals for Museum Ideas 2026. Now in its fifteenth year, Museum Ideas brings together museum professionals from around the world to share new thinking and transformative ideas shaping the future of museums. We’re particularly interested in talks that explore how museums can be reimagined as dynamic, inclusive, and responsive spaces — places that embrace experimentation, care, and community at their core.

We welcome proposals that address (but are not limited to): new approaches to collections, interpretation, and storytelling; collaboration, co-creation, and community engagement; decolonisation, restitution, and rethinking institutional practice; environmental sustainability and climate-emergency curation; leadership, care, and the future of museums.

We encourage submissions from across the international museum and heritage sector. Talks are typically 20–25 minutes, followed by Q&A and discussion.

To submit a proposal, please send a short speaker biography (100 words) and a proposed session title and summary (up to 250 words) to info@museum-id.com. We look forward to hearing your ideas.

The Museum Ideas conference in London has welcomed thousands of museum professionals from over 30 countries and featured speakers from around the globe, including South Africa, Argentina, India, UAE, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. The annual event offers fresh perspectives on how museums can thrive in an era of change. Join us to explore new ideas, make valuable new connections, and help drive change across the museum sector. Be part of shaping the future of museums together.

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