Museums serve a vital role in preserving culture—humanity’s shared treasure—while creating spaces for equitable dialogue among individuals from diverse backgrounds. These cultural conversations can serve as models for building a more equal and sustainable international society.
In an era marked by increasing natural disasters and conflicts, there is growing recognition across all sectors of the need to establish new frameworks for nations and global communities.
Museums are particularly positioned to strengthen their role as catalysts for cross-cultural understanding and the cultivation of mutual respect. However, to ensure that individuals from all backgrounds can participate in meaningful dialogue within museums, it is essential to move beyond traditional one-way relationships toward inclusive and collaborative international partnerships.
Through this gathering, the symposium aims to foster deeper discussions on creating more reciprocal and equitable partnerships in our cultural heritage work.
With officials and speakers from Japan and the Netherlands.
The symposium can also be followed on line.
