An Intercultural Tool for Museums

Developed by graduate students in Montreal and Antwerp, an ICC-inspired museum tool to support intercultural research, planning, and evaluation is made available to all museum professionals, researchers, and heritage sector stakeholders. In the context of a collaboration between UQÀM | Université du Québec à Montréal (department of Museum Studies) and Universiteit Antwerpen (department of Cultural Management), four graduate students recently carried out a comparative study of approaches to cultural diversity in city museums. The study observed how four museums in Quebec, Flanders, and The Netherlands approach intercultural dialogue today: the Montreal History Centre, MAS | Museum aan de Stroom in Antwerp, STAM | Ghent City Museum, and Museum Rotterdam…READ MORE