Museums as Agents of Change

Museums are on the move. No longer places of gathered dust and historic artefacts, musums are now habitats for progressive thought and community engagement.

From Museum for the United Nations - UN Live to the Horniman Museum in London, from the Beiruit Museum of Art in Lebanon, to the Explora Park in Medellin, Colombia, museums are breaking out, now places for forward looking open discussion and connection that can help us to recognise our shared humanity.

The global movement of museums as agents of change draws together the arts, science and humanities and thus brings together humanity in ways that governments, through international collaboration ought, but sadly, as increasingly witnessed, don’t.

Please note: The Olive Network (ON) was created for this very purpose – in the internet age to work laterally beyond borders, to foster long-term thinking, to empower people with vision and a drive for equality and social good. The work of charities, NGO’s, International Orgs, the arts, science - museums and educational institutions far outweighs the sense and practical purpose of hierarchical national governments as a way forwards beyond the pandemic and finding resolutions to the climate crisis.

L'INTERNATIONALE

L’Internationale is a European confederation of museums, arts organizations and universities,

founded in 2009. It takes its name from the nineteenth-century workers’ anthem written by Eugène Pottier.

L’INTERNATIONALE ONLINE

L’Internationale Online is the common platform for research, debate and communication for the confederation.

L’Internationale Online is a space where commissioned texts, research and artistic projects intersect with the activities,

collections and archives of the members’ institutions.

MUSEUM FOR THE UNITED NATIONS - UN LIVE

MUSEUM NEXT

NEMO - NETWORK OF EUROPEAN MUSEUMS

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF MUSEUMS

INTERNATIONAL GALLERIES ALLIANCE

MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD

WE ARE MUSEUMS