Coordinator: Wencke Maderbacher (chair.ceca[at]icom.museum)

Focus: Strengthens the field of museum education by sharing knowledge on training, fair contracts, inclusion, and visibility. Provides a platform for professional growth and advocacy.

Language: English.

Open to: All, via registration.

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Calendar 2025–2026

About the coordinator

Wencke Maderbacher has been heading the Learning and Cultural Interaction department at Moesgaard Museum since 2018. She also serves as board member of ICOM Denmark and is actively involved in ICOM CECA as its current Chair. Prior to this, she spent 15 years at the Technisches Museum Wien in Austria, starting as a museum educator in 2001 and the Deputy head of the Department from 2006 – 2016.

Description

The aim of the SIG for Professional Development of Museum Educators is to provide a platform for museum education experts to exchange knowledge and ideas on further education for museum professionals, with a view to improve the professional situation of museum mediators. Museum educators deserve stable contracts and fair payment, as well as acknowledgement of their works and profession inside and outside of the institution. The topics of our group are:

• Trainings & skills for museum educators
• Job description
• Fair contracts & payment for museum educators
• Inclusion & collaboration inside the institutions
• Visibility of our work outside the institution
• Organization & administration of educator teams
• Educators as networkers

Our group has already gained more than 200 experts from all around the world with a lively exchange. We are looking forward to welcoming more members to realize our goals for museum educators!

The meetings are hosted and moderated by Wencke. The format of the meetings requires either group discussions in the Zoom rooms and using interactive tools to share thoughts or meeting the guest to get a deeper view on a specific topic. This SIG has a “Chat in the house” role so no video recordings are shared after the meetings. The presentations can be shared if the presenter agrees on it.

Annual reports

2025, 2024, 2023.