The conference in Romania reflects on the profound transformations shaping museums today, from engaging diverse communities and rethinking representation to addressing sensitive histories, accelerating digital transformation, and adapting conservation and restoration practices to climate change and extreme weather conditions. At the same time, it highlights the increasingly transformative role of open-air museums as spaces that connect tradition and modernity, rural and urban contexts, and past and future. By bringing these perspectives together, the conference opens a platform for dialogue on some of the most pressing and complex questions facing open-air museology today.
