In collaboration with
ICOM NATHIST, ICOM France, Musée des civilisations de Côte d’Ivoire,

With the support of
ICOM African Regional Alliance, ICOM National Committees Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Mali,
ICOM National Committees Greece, Spain, Argentina,
UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa,
Musée de l’Eau du Burkina Faso.

Social sustainability, natural sustainability: the urgency of education
Abidjan, Ivory Coast, November 23/28, 2024

One of the traditional ways of including visitors in the life of museums is to offer educational and cultural programs to a variety of audiences, both usual and remote, that are likely to attract them and put the museum’s wealth at the service of society’s needs.

For more than ten years, ICOM CECA has been using and improving a tool designed to support the professional designers of these programs, deepening their reflection on the many scientific, social, material and financial aspects involved in implementing this offer.

The proposed workshop in French-speaking West Africa will aim to develop the educational skills of museum professionals around program implementation, and will do so with two more specific intentions: to deal with material and natural heritage, and to work more particularly towards communities in an inclusive approach.

The presence of CECA representatives in the region during the workshop should help disseminate skills, leading to greater participation by African professionals in the annual international “Best Practice Award” competition, which gathers numerous proposals each year and rewards and publishes the best programs.