Museum as Toolbox: International Symposium a Tallin

On August 27, 2016, an international conference on the practice of communication and mediation of an art museum in the 21st century was held in Tallinn, Estonia.

What should be the characteristics of a museum today in relating to young people, in order to be an interactive and social exchange hub? This is the main theme of the Tallinn symposium, between exchanges and presentations, for effective and targeted communication. There will be three thematic sessions throughout the day: young people and art museums, socially engaged art and artistic interventions in museums, communication methods.

Close to Victoria Walsh (Royal College of Art, London), Jasper Visser (Museum of the Future), Sinéad K. Rice (National Gallery of Ireland), Michela Perrotta (Palazzo Grassi and Punta Della Dogana, Venice), Louise Springborg (Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen) and Nikolaj Recke (Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen), also attended by Sarah Greenwood (Head of Marketing at Museion), with a presentation regarding interdisciplinary communication tools in a museum, and Brita Köhler (Head of Services at public/Educational projects at Museion) presenting the Artist in residency project which saw the Polish artist Marcin Polak working at Museion in April 2016 together with around twenty young people.