0. day – 18th August

19.00 – 21.00 Welcome ceremony by Miklós Cseri at his garden

1. day – 19th August

9.30 – 15.00 Thematic program, including box-lunch

9.30–9.50. Opening of the conference by Hilde Schoefs, President of AEOM and Miklós Cseri, Director General of the host museum

9.50–10.45 Lecture by Miklós Cseri: Szentendre’s roles

10.45–15.00 Thematic self-program in the Hungarian Open air Museum concerning the theme of the conference

• Transylvanian building complex
• Historical traumas after World War II. – (Exhibitions: Farewell to the peasantry; Malenki Robot - just a small work; Population exchange in the Southern Transdanubia regional unit)
• Wagon dwellers after World War I. – Exhibition next to the Entrance building
• Cube-shaped house, the symbol of the architecture of the 1960’ and 1970’s – Skanzen Gallery
• Educational programmes
• Virtual exhibitions

15.30 – 17.00 Afternoon session

Using museums as platforms for empowerment, cultural participation and social justice

Keynote speaker: Jette Sandahl (DK) (the founding director of two pioneering new museums, the Women's Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, and the Museum of World Cultures in Goteborg)

AEOM members presentation:

• Helen Barker, Beamish: Well being in Beamish
• Anne Marie Rechendorff and Kitt Boding-Jensen, Den Gamle By: “I’m really sorry my wife is not here today. She thinks I’m off my head.” How open-air museums can create programs for people affected by dementia
• Zsuzsanna Nagyné Batári, Hungarian Open Air Museum: An inclusive and integrating museum interpreting trauma

17.30 – 18.30 Late afternoon session

Art and social traumas

19:30-21:00 Dinner in the Museum

2. day – 20th August

9.30 – 12.00 Morning session

Museums reflect to historical traumas

Keynote speaker: Benedek Varga (HU) (Historian, former chair of ICOM Hungary, directot of Semmelweis Medical History Museum of the Hungarian National Museum)

• Maret Tamjärv, Estonian Open Air Museum: ARE WE READY FOR UNTOLD STORIES? About the controversial apartment building in the Estonian Open Air Museum
• Zsolt Sári, Hungarian Open Air Museum: With an increased emphasis on promoting social justice, what is the responsibility of museums to traumatized communities?
• Aaron Ward, National Museums North Ireland: Reawakening the Ulster Folk Museum

12.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00-16.30 Afternoon session

Members contributions and Q&A

• Barbara Karl, Ballenberg Freilichtmuseum der Schweiz: Documentation and protection of the historic houses in Ballenberg Swiss Open-Air Museum
• Natasha Anson, Durham - Beamish: “Simply acres of nostalgia” or something more? Nostalgia and open-air museums

20:00-23:00 Fireworks and dinner in Budapest

3. day – 21st August

9.00 -12.00 Morning session

Museums in wartime

Keynote speaker: Anastasiia CHEREDNYCHENKO, chair of ICOM Ukraine (under request)

• Olov Amelin, Jamtli: How can we better help protect Ukrainian cultural heritage during the ongoing war?
• Dr. Ulrike Sbresny, Freilichtmuseum Hessenpark GmbH: „How to present the unfathomable? – Exhibitions on Nazi crimes in a German open air museum“

12.30–13.30 Lunch

14.00–16.00 Afternoon session

Members contribution

17:00–21:00 A museum of the German minority. Visit and dinner in Budaörs, cooperation with Jakob Bleyer Heimatmuseum

4. day – 22nd August

9.30-12.00 Morning session

• Workshop about SDG of OAM
• Workshop about open air museum’s definition
• Workshop about the statue of AEOM

12.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00-16.00 Afternoon session

General meeting of AEOM

16.00 Transfer back to the hotel

18.15 Transfer back to the Museum

19.00-22:00 Farewell party in the Transylvanian Building Complex