Universidade Aberta (UAb) is hosting the Inclusive Memory Conference on Transforming Museums into Inclusive Health Promoting Environments next October 10th 2024. The event takes place at the Museum of the Orient in Lisbon.
The theme of the event is how to transform museums into inclusive health promoting environments. Having evolved substantially in the last decades, museums play a pivotal role in today’s societies by actively contributing to social inclusion by widening people’s access to education, knowledge, culture, health and well-being. This complex role brings about major challenges to museum institutions, notably in what concerns the professional development of staff, which need to be addressed in a multidisciplinary way.
Over twenty experts from six different countries will speak at the conference, representing such diverse stakeholders as national and local Government agencies, universities and research institutes, national and regional museums, health organisations and cultural associations. They will be addressing the challenges from their different perspectives. One of the highlights of the event will be the launch of the Inclusive Memory MOOC which focus on developing key competences to explore the potential of museums as inclusive spaces. This open course is coordinated by UAb and targets students from HEIs in the fields of education, social care and medical sciences.
The conference is part of the activities of the Inclusive Memory project (see website) which aims at promoting the building of a common shared social memory realised through a museum-based social inclusive system. The project is funded under the Erasmus+ programme.
