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320 participants join NEMO European Museum Conference 2026 to explore the role of museums in an AI-shaped world

320 participants from 41 countries have gathered in Vilnius, Lithuania, for the NEMO European Museum Conference 2026: Human after all – Museums in the wake of AI. The first full day of the conference programme on 12 October…

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NEMO Executive Board Member Sandro Debono…

On 29 October 2026, NEMO Executive Board member Sandro Debono delivered a keynote presentation at Meet, See, Do 2026 – Museums as Living Institutions: Ethics, Participation, Sustainability and Care, organised by the Balkan Museum…

 
 Two kids lay down on a blown up version of a Bruegel painting. A huge tilted mirror shows them as part of the painting.
NEMO expresses serious concerns over…

On 28 October 2026, NEMO, the Network of European Museum Organisations, sent a letter to Caroline Gennez, Flemish Minister for Welfare and Poverty Reduction, Culture and Equal Opportunities, to express its concern regarding…

 
Call for applications: African-European museum partnership funding for exhibitions and public engagement initiatives

Museums and heritage institutions working in partnership across Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe can now apply for two new funding…

 A classical sculpture of a person is shown from below. Their arms are missing.
NEMO joins call to protect AgoraEU as…

NEMO has joined a broad coalition of cultural, media and civil society organisations in signing an open letter calling on EU member states to safeguard AgoraEU, the proposed successor to creative Europe, in the next multiannual…

 
NEMO Executive Board publishes statement on…

Drawing on discussions at the recent NEMO European Museum Conference: Human after all – Museums in the wake of AI, the NEMO Executive Board has published a statement on the role of museums and their needs in an age increasingly…

 
Austrian study highlights museums' contribution to wellbeing and social sustainability

The Austrian Museums Association (Museumsbund Österreich) and QWB Lab, both NEMO members, has published a new study exploring the…

ECHOES regional meeting explores the future…

On 14 October 2026, following the NEMO European Museum Conference in Vilnius, museum and cultural heritage professionals gathered at the Palace of the Grand Dukes for a regional meeting organised by the ECHOES project. Bringing…

 
NEMO European Museum Conference 2026: Deep…

The second day of full conference programme at the NEMO European Museum Conference 2026 in Vilnius invited participants to look beyond AI as a technological development and consider its wider implications for truth, trust, work,…

 
NEMO Working Group Digital Transformation…

From 9-10 October 2026, members of NEMO's Working Group Digital Transformation gathered in Riga, Latvia, for a two-day study visit hosted by the Latvian Museum Association. Bringing together museum professionals from across…