ICOM International Symposium 2021

1. A distant park,
an ocean liner
and a truck
with rocks
Museum visions
and the much-
desired change
Maria Vlachou
International Symposium ICOM 2021
Prague, 26.8.21

2. John Cotton Dana

5. • Why are we doing this?

6. • Why are we doing this?
• How can we be useful?

7. • Why are we doing this?
• How can we be useful?
• What makes a community?

8. • Why are we doing this?
• How can we be useful?
• What makes a community?
• How can we take care of each
other?

9. • Why are we doing this?
• How can we be useful?
• What makes a community?
• How can we take care of each
other?
• How can we be more pirate?

10. “What if love was the core value that steered the
radical change needed in museums today?”

11. “It's interesting how many
organizations which no doubt have
been training leaders for decades
still have terrible leadership
practices, especially when these
practices are imposed upon groups
who traditionally have little to no
power.”
Robert Weisberg, Museum Human

12. John Cotton Dana
Elaine Heumann Gurian Bernadette Lynch
Stephen E. Weil Deborah Cullinan
Esme Ward Nina Simon

13. Sandra Benites
Merete Sanderhoff
Alice Procter John Hampton
Robert Janes
Richard Sandell
Johnnetta Cole

14. David Fleming Sara Wajid Lonie Bunch Wayne Modest
Joan Baldwin Gretchen Jennings
Tacco Dibbits

15. “…to produce free
citizens, citizens
who are free not
because of wealth
or birth, but
because they can
call their minds
their own.”
Martha Nussbaum, Cultivating
Humanity: A Classical Defense of
Reform in Liberal Education (1997)

16. Maria Vlachou
mariavlachou.pt@gmail.com
Blog: Musing on Culture