Event series title
- Museum Ideas Study Days 2026
Location
Date
Event series details
Transforming Youth Engagement in Your Museum
At the centre of this Study Day is the question: How can museums build meaningful, long-term relationships with young people?
This interactive Study Day will explore innovative strategies, practical tools, and fresh thinking to help attendees shape more inclusive and impactful youth engagement programmes.
- Tuesday 27 January 2026
- Led by Dhiyandra Natalegawa
Access further details at Transforming Youth Engagement in Your Museum
How AI is Reshaping the Future of Museums
This Study Day will explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the future of museums.
From curation and learning to audience engagement, creativity, collections, and operations, participants will discover how AI is already driving meaningful change across the sector and what it could mean for participants' own work now and the future.
- Tuesday 10 February 2026
- Led by Chris Michaels
Further details can be accessed at How AI is Reshaping the Future of Museums
Playful Approaches to Museum Interpretation
This Study Day will explore the role of play and its purpose in museums. If museums want a better future they must be welcoming, playful, social spaces.
- Tuesday 24 February 2026
- Led by Anna Ravenscroft
Access further details at Playful Approaches to Museum Interpretation
Making Playable Immersive Experiences in Your Museum
This Study Day will centre its focus on an in-depth guide to designing, developing, and delivering immersive playable experiences in museums.
- Tuesday 17 March 2026
- Led by Sacha Coward
Further details can be accessed at Making Playable Immersive Experiences in Your Museum
Inclusive Museum Practice: Designing for Children in Museums
This Study Day will feature a practice-based session exploring inclusive museum practice and designing for children.
Attendees will discover how museums have the opportunity to better serve communities by considering the child’s museum visit holistically.
- Tuesday 24 March
- Led by Margaret Middleton
Access further details at Inclusive Museum Practice: Designing for Children in Museums
Reimagining Participation in Museums
Participants at this Study Day will explore how to design and sustain participatory practice that is ethical, inclusive, and transformative for communities.
- Tuesday 14 April 2026
- Led by Afia Yeboah Owoyale
Further details can be accessed at Reimagining Participation in Museums
Co-Creating with Care in Museums
Attendees at this Study Day will gain practice-based insights into designing, developing, and delivering co-creation projects. Attendees will discover fresh ideas and actionable strategies to help them craft meaningful co-creation initiatives tailored to their institutions.
- Tuesday 12 May 2026
- Led by Stephen Welsh
Access further details at Co-Creating with Care in Museums
Social Justice and Co-production in Museums
This Study Day will explore what it means to explicitly occupy museum spaces in social justice.
Central questions for exploration here will be:
- How do museums safeguard themselves and others during this process?
- How does the institution change and respond to being part of social justice narratives?
- What does trust look like during this process?
Exploration will involve sharing case studies on museums engaging with social justice through their collections and practice, aiming to create a space for sharing, rooted in care, emotion, and reflection.
- Tuesday 9 June 2026
- Led by Jon Sleigh
Further details can be accessed at Social Justice and Co-production in Museums
Intelligent Futures: How AI Will Reimagine Museums
This Study Day will explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the future of museums.
From curation and learning to audience engagement, creativity, collections, and operations, attendees will discover how AI is already driving meaningful change across the sector and what it could mean for their own work now and the future.
- Tuesday 14 July 2026
- Led by Chris Michaels
Access further detail at Intelligent Futures: How AI Will Reimagine Museums
Museum Ideas 2026 Conference
The central theme of this annual event is to discover how museums can be reimagined through deeper connections, power shifts, and community co-creation to become more inclusive, imaginative, and impactful.
- Wednesday 16 September 2026
- The Master of Ceremonies will be Professor Dan Hicks (University of Oxford and Pitt Rivers Museum)
Access further detail and updates at Museum Ideas 2026 Conference
Co-Creation, Museums and Making Change
This Study Day will feature a dynamic, practical session designed to equip participants with the tools and insights to embed genuine co-creation, share power meaningfully, and drive community-led change in their museum.
- Tuesday 10 November 2026
- Led by Stella Toonen
Further details can be accessed at Co-Creation, Museums and Making Change
AI and Museums: Integration, Imagination and Innovation
Participants will explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the future of museums in this practical, in-person Study Day.
From curation and learning to audience engagement, creativity, collections, and operations, participants will discover how AI is already driving meaningful change across the sector and what it could mean for their own work now and the future.
- Tuesday 17 November 2026
- Led by Chris Michaels
Access further details at AI and Museums: Integration, Imagination and Innovation
Organised by Museum Ideas.