Networking opportunity for museum professionals

Since 1996, the Vitra Design Museum has organized the international muscon conference in cooperation with annually changing local hosts. The aim of this conference is to promote the international exchange of travelling exhibitions and other collaborative initiatives among museum professionals and decision makers. Outside of Europe, muscon is also regularly held in the United States and Asia-Pacific. The muscon network has brought together several hundred institutions and contributed significantly to further a productive exchange of travelling exhibitions in the international museum landscape.

To date, partners who have hosted muscon include the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Design Museum London, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Triennale Milano, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Powerhouse Museum Sydney, Design Miami, and The Wolfsonian—FIU, and many others.

The conference offers museum directors, head curators, and exhibition planners the possibility to share their expertise, strategize on new topics and establish new contacts in a very collegial and cooperative atmosphere. muscon primarily focuses on institutions in the area of design and architecture but is also open to museums in the fields of fine art, cultural history, science, and other disciplines.

The program of this one-day conference is focused on brief presentations to provide participants with the opportunity to showcase information on their exhibitions program and future projects. If you are interested in presenting your program in one of these ten-minute time slots, please send an email to muscon@design-museum.de before April 30, 2023.

Registration via email required. There are no participation fees.

This event is co-hosted by the Vitra Design Museum and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.