JOIN us on Friday, 19 September 2025 at 14:00 (CET) for the first part of the webinar “Beyond Displays: Six Ways Museums Create Connection and Change”.
The 60-minute session will feature three inspiring presentations that showcase how museums can foster connection, dialogue, and transformation through innovative practices.
If you have missed the event, you can watch the recording on BMN YouTube channel.
Mihaela Verman: Bringing Theatre History to Life: The Art of Storytelling in Guided Tours
How can theatre history collections — costumes, stage designs, manuscripts, and photographs — regain their vitality once removed from performance? This presentation demonstrates how guided tours can become acts of dramaturgical storytelling, weaving together objects, spaces, and histories to create engaging and memorable experiences for visitors. Drawing on practice at the National Theatre Museum in Bucharest, it highlights how storytelling techniques such as rhythm, tension, and character can transform guided tours into performances of knowledge. Mihaela Verman is a museographer at the I.L. Caragiale National Theatre Museum in Bucharest, where she has worked for eight years. She manages a collection of more than 20,000 artifacts and designs visitor programs that bring theatre history to life. Her work combines dramaturgy and storytelling to create meaningful and emotionally resonant museum experiences.
Carla Costa: A Heart-Centered Approach in Museums: Meaningful Dialogues and Deep Connection between Visitors, Collections, and Nature
This session presents a site-specific experience that unites landscape, art, and people through a creative, mindful, and participatory approach. Developed during a residency in the Forma Viva Park at Galerija Božidar Jakac, Slovenia, under the Creative Europe initiative Culture Moves Europe, the project emphasizes dialogue, belonging, and connection in museum practice. Carla Costa is a cultural practitioner from Lisbon, Portugal, with over a decade of experience in community engagement and experimental creativity. She has worked internationally on social and artistic projects, designing and mediating experiences that foster belonging, dialogue, and creativity across diverse cultural contexts.
Anastasiia Manuliak: Supporting Decolonisation in Museums: Focus on Ukraine
This presentation introduces a newly developed museum guide focused on Ukraine, created in collaboration with the Ukrainian Institute, ICOM UK, ICOM Ukraine, and the Museums Association, with support from the British Council. The guide provides a snapshot of Ukraine’s decolonisation journey and offers practical tools for global museum professionals seeking to include Ukraine in their decolonisation practice. It equips audiences with perspectives and resources to challenge harmful colonial narratives and promote inclusivity. Anastasiia Manuliak is Head of Visual Arts at the Ukrainian Institute, where she manages international programmes including Visualise. She has curated and co-curated major cultural projects in Ukraine and abroad, including the National Biennale for Young Art in Kharkiv and ArtsLink Assembly in Warsaw. She is also a lecturer at the Lviv National Academy of Arts and an expert for the Ukrainian Culture Foundation.
REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR UNTIL 18 SEP HERE.
The webinar is part 1 of the series and it will be facilitated by BMN Secretary General Aida Vežić.
The second part is scheduled for 30 Sep 2025 and we hope you will join us then as well!
