Child looks down through glass floor tiles.
Dutch museums request more support as visitor…

The Netherlands Museums Association urges the government to allocate additional emergency support and recovery plan to museums throughout 2022. Government support for sectors hit hard by the pandemic is due to finish at the end of…

 
 A large group of tourists stand behind a rope fence inside a museum to take photos of something outside of the picture.
NEMO contributed to an online debate on free…

NEMO Secretary General Julia Pagel shared her thoughts in the online debate “Should all museums be free to the public?" together with Member of Parliament Niklas Nienaß and hosted by Debating Europe.

 
 Woman with her back to the camera is looking at a painting of a person in a black dress. The wall is also black which contrasts the woman's red dress.
Prescription museum visits to relieve…

A three-month pilot project in Brussels, Belgium, allows doctors to prescribe museum visits to rebuild mental health amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

 
 Two people have their backs to the camera as they both take a photo of a painting hanging on the wall. The person in the back is taking her photo of the painting through the phone screen of the person of the person standing in front of her.
Survey on new technologies and innovations in…

The Museum Innovation Barometer 2021 provides an overview of the current and planned implementation of technology enhanced tools​ and approaches among museums around the world. 

 
Webinar on quality digital content for museums

Watch the recording of the webinar, "Museums going digital: Why invest on quality digital content?" that took place on 29 April…

 Two people wearing face masks walk through an exhibition hall. There is plenty of space between them and the walls are covered with distance markings.
Latvian state museums earned only 4% of…

Shortly after museums in Latvia could reopen on 1 June 2021, the Ministry of Culture released figures stating 3.5 million euro revenue loss in the Latvian museum sector.

 
 Two people wearing face masks are looking at art hanging on the wall.
EU Commission guidelines on safe reopening of…

On 29 June 2021, the European Commission launched guidelines on the safe reopening and resumption of activities in the cultural and creative sectors in Europe.

 
 This images shows a map of Europe. The green dots represent the NEMO member states and indicate that the museums in these countries have all reopened.
NEMO map update shows that museums across all…

NEMO has updated its interactive map of museum reopenings and closings and is happy to confirm that all countries across Europe included in the map allow museums to be open. The last country to officially allow all museums to…

 
 The graphic is divided into two triangles. The upper left triangle is a painting of people holding hands and dancing against a blue background. The image on the lower right is a historic fresco of women holding hands and looking into the same direction. Between the two images a conference is announced.
NEMO spoke at conference about the new normal…

On 7 June 2021, the conference Visions and perspectives for museums and cultural institutions: six studies towards a new normal, organised by the Fondazione Scuola dei beni e delle attività culturali, the took place online. NEMO…