CIMAM: What’s On Now
Discover the current CIMAM programs, calls, and opportunities
As a CIMAM member, your participation in CIMAM programs not only connects you with peers across the world but also contributes to a growing network of shared knowledge, tools, and modern and contemporary art museum best practices.
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Call for Contributions: Ethical Principles for Museum Collections
- CIMAM's Museum Watch Committee (MW) is launching a new research initiative to develop a framework of ethical principles to guide building and maintaining a museum collection.
📅 1 September 2026.
→ Share your professional Experience. Take part in this survey
Panel: Rethinking Collection Governance: Ethics, Stewardship and Institutional Responsibility
- Organized by CIMAM in collaboration with MACBA Public Programs, this panel will explore what ethical principles should guide the management of a museum collection today.
📅 18 September 2026
🕒 10:00–11:30
📍 MACBA Auditori Meier, MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Plaça del Àngels, 1, Barcelona).
→ Admission is free, but registration is required as seating is limited. Register here
CIMAM Connects: Curating Across Uneven Grounds, Negotiating Theory and Practice
- Led by Portia Placino, Gallery Administrator and Curator, JCB Gallery, Philippine Women's University, Quezon City, Philippines.
📅 30 September 2026
🕒 10:00 Paris / 12:00 Dubai / 16:00 Manila / 18:00 Sydney
→ CIMAM Members can access the Zoom registration link by logging into the Members Only Section.
General Registration Open for CIMAM 2026 in Harare
- Registration for the CIMAM 2026 Annual Conference will remain open until 30 September 2026, unless the conference reaches full capacity and places are sold out earlier.
Contact conference@cimam.org for any enquiries.
📅 30 September 2026, unless the conference reaches full capacity and places are sold out earlier
Free Admission at Art Biennials Opening this September with your CIMAM membership
- This September, CIMAM members can enjoy free admission to two major international art biennials with prior registration: Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time (Preview Day: 11 September) and the 18th Lyon Biennale: To Pass from One Dream to Another (Preview Days: 17–18 September). Registration is required.
→ Review the calendar and book your spot!
Join the CIMAM membership for the 2026–28 term
- Apply to join as an Individual
- Apply to join as an Institutional
- Support CIMAM, join our Patrons' Program
Stay connected, keep learning, and grow through CIMAM’s open programs and resources for all museum professionals
- Recommended Reading & Listening of books, articles and podcasts.
- The Sustainability Toolkit updated with new resources.
- Open Job Opportunities in modern and contemporary art museums around the world.
- CIMAM’s Spotify Playlist curated by our Members.
- 2026 Webinars: Catch up on sessions you missed or want to revisit.
- 2026 CIMAM Connects: Join the members-only conversations on Contemporary Art Museum Practice
- Revisit or watch for the first time all speaker presentations and Q&A sessions from CIMAM 2025 on CIMAM TV.
- Share a case with the Museum Watch Committee.
Thank you for your participation and contribution to CIMAM's programs :)
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