Leading up to the NEMO European Museum Conference ‘Who cares? Museums, wellbeing, and resilience’, NEMO is delighted to welcome Tessa Kerre, medical doctor and haematologist at Ghent University Hospital, to deliver a NEMO Webinar on how art can become part of healing.
Drawing from her clinical work with patients undergoing intensive treatments in isolation, Tessa Kerre will share personal stories and insights from her research on the effects of art and shared reading for cancer patients. She will also present examples of different art forms introduced at her hospital and discuss the impact of art in healthcare settings for both patients and caregivers.
Join the one-hour webinar on 29 September 2025 from 11:00-12:00 CEST to get inspired and explore how museums and the cultural sector can play a vital role in health and wellbeing.
- Register to the NEMO Webina
- Participation in the NEMO Webinar is free of charge, but registration is mandatory. The webinar is limited to 200 participants on a first come, first serve basis.
Dive deeper into the topic at the NEMO European Museum Conference ‘Who cares? Museums, wellbeing, and resilience’, taking place from 26-28 October 2025 in Horsens, Denmark. Together we will explore the transformative role of museums in supporting mental health, wellbeing, and community resilience. As museums increasingly embrace their potential as spaces for emotional healing, social connection, and therapeutic experiences, the European museum conference will highlight inspiring case studies and innovative approaches that position museums as active contributors to public health.
Meet the speaker
Prof Tessa Kerre, MD, PhD, is a medical doctor, haematologist, and head of the department of haematology at the Ghent University Hospital. She is specialised in acute leukaemias, allogeneic stem cell transplantation and T-cell based immunotherapy. Her research focuses on these domains, but she also started a novel research line studying the impact of shared reading on cancer patients.
She is one of the promotors of the international network CHARM (Consortium for Health Humanities, Arts, Reading and Medicine), led by her colleagues Jürgen Pieters and Zoë Ghyselinck. In 2020, she founded the fund Princess Delphine of Saksen-Coburg, to support initiatives integrating art into health care. In 2022, she wrote Art on Prescription, an essay advocation for the integration of arts in health care. (Academia Press, 2022). Her dream is to develop a room service for arts in the hospital.
