Partner Museums Meeting at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
On 19 June 2026, Facilitators and Directors of TheMuseumsLab Partner Museums Network met at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin to discuss the future of the Network and explore new ways to strengthen it.
Who Is Missing from History? Museums cannot change the past, but they can change who becomes visible within it.
In her reflections on Module 2, Fellow Dr. Samar El Khamisy explores how museums preserve overlooked voices, confront difficult pasts, and shape public understanding.
Reflecting on Module 2: Notes from Berlin as a Landscape of Memory
In his reflection on Module 2, TheMuseumsLab Co-Curator Matthew Watts looks back on a week shaped by questions of memory, power, and imagining alternatives.
TheMuseumsLab Forum 2026: A day of reconnection, exchange, and dialogue
Museum directors, cultural practitioners, researchers, and colleagues from across the TheMuseumsLab network and beyond came together in Berlin for a day of exchange on the evolving role of museums and memorial sites in a rapidly changing world.
The Architecture of Shared Memory: Reflections on Module 1
How do societies organize memory? Must it always be outsourced to centralized, national institutions, or can it breathe outside the strict geometry of concrete and state control? — A reflection on Module 1 by Mahad Mohamed.
Looking Back at Module 1: Five Days of Learning and Exchange
Over five days, Module 1 of TheMuseumsLab 2026 set the stage for the months ahead, bringing Fellows together online to engage with key themes and ideas that guide the programme.
Keeping Memory Alive: How Museums Help Future Generations Remember What They Never Lived
A reflection on Module 1 of TheMuseumsLab 2026 by Dr. Samar El Khamisy, exploring how cultural institutions help future generations understand events they never lived through, ensuring that difficult histories remain a source of empathy, resilience, and shared responsibility rather than silence and forgetting.
