Annual Conference
The ICOM-CECA 2025 Annual Conference will take place in Dubai in November.
► ► ► CECA PROGRAM OVERVIEW: 11th – 17th November 2025
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► ► ► Dubaï CECA activities proposal
Session A3
CECA alone
CECA’s Special Interest Groups: Synthesis and results of five years of online activiies
CECA’s Special Interest Groups have been initiated during the COVID shutdown to encourage continuous contacts and common work between members. Multilinguals, they meet on Line between 4 to 8 times a year, covering themes such as:” Inclusive museum, global accessibility” ” Surveying audience reception of educational and cultural programmes ” ” Professional development of museum educators ” ” Museum Education and Decolonization ” ” Sensitive mediation ” ” Young members network “. This session will give their coordinators the opportunity to present the result of their work and encourage new attendees for their future meetings.
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Session BC2
CECA alone
Presentation of the winning projects of CECA’s Research,
Best practice and Young Members awards, Award ceremony.
CECA organizes every year for its members the possibility to submit a project within the framework of three international competitions;
– The Best Practice Award, a tool to improve museum education internationally
– The Colette Dufresne Tassé Research award
– The Young Members award
More than thirty projects are submitted each year to three international jurys
Three Best Practice awardee projects, two Research awardee projects and one Young Member awardee project will be presented by their wilnners and the session will end with the official award ceremony
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Session C3
CECA, NatHist, CIMUSET
Science and Natural History museums as effective and inclusive environments for young adults’ quality understanding of their world .
In the growing concern for inclusion in contemporary museums, the young adults represent a crucial concern, whatever their conditions. Knowing that this generation is the demographic segment with the highest interest and openness toward scientific knowledge, science museums are keen to know what sort of impact they can have through their exhibitions to become places of reflective engagement towards the future. Research results from Swizerland, Canada and Mexico will help to go beyond optimistic dreams or ready made assumptions, trying to design some principles for more significant and effective museographies.
Speakers
Nicolas Kramar, Director of the Musée de la Nature du Valais, Switzerland
Colette Dufresne Tassé, Research director, Department of education, Montreal University, Canada
Rubiales Ricardo Garcia Jurado, Director of the Museum of Light in Mérida, Mexico
Discussion
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Virtual posters will be presented during these sessions in the premises, open to face to face presentations and discussions
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IC day Louvre Abu Dhabi
Strictly for CECA memùbers. Upon prior registration
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- Presentation of the museum and of the public and educational activities of the Louvre by the education team
– Q and A session on this presentation - CECA board election results. Presentation of the new board
- In the Louvre galleries : Free exploration of the collections and premises
- In the Louvre galleries :Group interactive exchanges in the galleries by the Louvre Abu Dhabi education team and the coordinators of the Special Interest Groups.
Themes :
– Inclusive museum, global accessibility
– Museum Education and Decolonization
– Surveying audience reception of educational and cultural programme
– Professionaldevelopment of museumeducators –
– Young Members Network - In the museum large auditorium
– Feedback of the working groups
Our conference will be held in conjunction with ICOM’s triennial General Conference.
27th ICOM General Conference / 11th to 17th November 2025 / Dubai World Trade Centre Dubai, UAE
Program: <https://dubai2025.icom.museum/programme#conference-theme>
