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The Red Star Line Museum in Belgium has developed a practical tool to address how museums can responsibly handle personal stories that touch on sensitive themes. This resource outlines how the museum navigates questions of…

UNESCO invites online visits to its new initiative aimed at tackling the global challenge of stolen cultural objects. The project introduces a virtual museum dedicated to digitising and showcasing cultural property that is listed…

A new report from the Mapping Museums Lab at Birkbeck, University of London looks into museum closures in the UK museum sector over the past 25 years. While the sector has grown overall, with 870 new museums opening since 2000,…

The 27th ICOM General Conference recently took place in Dubai, bringing together museum professionals and cultural heritage experts from around the world. Among the key outcomes were strengthened measures against the illicit…

As a new year is about to start, one might reflect on working practices and explore new approaches. For inspiration, creative freelancers can turn to a new resource by Julie’s Bicycle that brings together resources and offers a…

The NEMO European Museum Conference "Who cares? Museums, wellbeing, and resilience” brought together 327 participants from 37 countries in Horsens, Denmark, from 26-28 October 2025 to explore how museums can foster wellbeing and…

NEMO will appoint a researcher to explore how AI is shaping museums and to compile findings into a report that will guide institutions through this time of rapid technological change. Overseen by the NEMO Working Group Digital…

How can museums nurture critical thinking - for their audiences, their teams, and the wider public - and why is this skill essential in today’s cultural landscape? These questions shaped the latest NEMO Members’ Meetup, held…