About the AEOM 2024

The last decades have seen historic traumas and social challenges – wars, resettlement of social groups, (mis)treatment of minorities, migration, gender issues, reintegration of peripheral social groups, intergenerational challenges – in several societies.

As museums, more specifically, as open air institutions, what are our possibilities? And what is our social responsibility towards our source community and audience? What means do we have for the museum representation?

The next conference of AEOM aims to map the theoretical background, the good practices and case studies concerning these topics in an open air museum context. All topics are subdivided into the categories of research, acquisition, museum representation (exhibitions of different kinds) and knowledge transfer.

AEOM also plans to compile an action plan of sustainability in the open air museums, together with an open air museum definition and a code of ethics. The results of these efforts are to be presented during the 2024 AEOM conference.

Keywords: social museum, dialogue, processing of traumas, participation, multivocality, health and wellbeing, inclusive museum, ethics, microhistory, interdisciplinarity, social sensitivity, social sustainability

The booking for the conference is open now.

Information about logistics for participants will be found in the tab "Information" from next spring.

If you have any questions please email aeom2024@skanzen.hu