ICME 2026 Annual Conference – Recovery and Regeneration, ICOM, April 2026
Ethnographic Museums as Spaces of Healing, Continuity, and Transformation.
About the Conference
The 2026 ICME Annual Conference, to be held in late October in Taiwan, will be the first ICME annual conference convened in the Asia–Pacific region in nearly two decades—an important moment for the global ethnographic museum community. Hosting the conference in Taiwan, a place shaped by layered histories, Indigenous presence, and vibrant cultural diversity, provides a meaningful setting for considering how museums can more responsibly engage with contemporary social, cultural, and political transformations.
In alignment with ICME’s commitment to human rights, community collaboration, and the critical reassessment of colonial and exclusionary legacies, the conference offers a vital platform to explore how museums recover marginalized voices, regenerate cultural knowledge, and support living traditions in a rapidly changing world. By gathering in Taiwan, ICME members can collectively advance practices that foster intercultural understanding, ethical stewardship, and innovative responses to the evolving needs of communities worldwide.
The committee calls for a variety of proposed contributions, including papers, posters, roundtables, and panels from colleagues who work on collections, exhibitions and programming that aim to diversify audiences and reconsider interpretive practice, whilst valuing and respecting traditional heritages and practices.