U.S.-China Museum Leaders Forum——Discussion: Making a Museum in the 21st Century
Date : 19 Nov,2014 18:30 - 20:00
Organizer: Asia Society
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Venue: Multi-functional Hall, 2F, Long Museum (West Bund)
Speaker: Glenn Lowry , Benezra Neal, Wang Huangsheng, Wang Wei
Host: Ye Ying , Chiu Melissa
Book Launch Event and Discussion for Making a Museum in the 21st Century To Be Held at Shanghai's Long Museum, November 19, 6:30 p.m.
Asia Society will convene the second U.S.-China Museum Leaders Forum, a part of the U.S.-China Forum on the Arts and Culture and the Asia Society Arts and Museum Network, in Shanghai and Hangzhou, November 19–21, 2014, to continue a dialogue that began with the first such gathering in Beijing in 2012. Nearly thirty American and Chinese museum directors, as well as several American art foundation leaders and Chinese cultural philanthropists, will meet to discuss potential areas for partnership and projects for collaboration.
Co-convened by Orville Schell, Arthur Ross director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society, and Melissa Chiu, director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the U.S.-China Museum Leaders Forum aims to foster collaboration and exchange among museums in the two countries, first and foremost by enabling American museum leaders and their Chinese counterparts to connect on a personal level.
The biennial Forum was initiated to address challenges faced by museums in China and ways to establish, operate, and sustain the thousands of new institutions the Chinese government plans to build in the next decade. The Forum is one of the only channels providing a non-political platform for top-level players from both sides to engage.
Topics of discussion will include case studies for successful examples of international exchange and cooperation, different models of cultural philanthropy in China and America, public and private museums, and actionable, collaborative projects for the represented institutions.