Network Opportunities




David Vuillaume

Chair of NEMO

Former Director of the Swiss Museums Association & ICOM Switzerland

Future Director of the German Museums Association

What Does A Museum
Network Do?



What Does A Museum Do?



A museum is a non-profit making
permanent institution in the service
of society and of its development,
open to the public, which acquires,
conserves, researches, communicates
and exhibits, for purposes of study,
education and enjoyment, the
tangible and intangible
evidence of people and their
environment.
Definition of „Museum“, International Council of Museums ICOM, 2004
What Does A Museum
Network Do?



 Quality

Marketing Lobbying
Quality
 Quality
For better museums
work
 With
professionals

Quality
For better museums
work
 With
professionals

Quality
For better museums
work

Professional exchange
 Institutional

Best practices 
 certification

Training programs 
 Common services

Consulting

Legal advice
 Quality

Marketing Lobbying
 Lobbying
For better legal
conditions
 With stakeholders

Lobbying
For better legal
conditions
Position papers
 Internships

Meetings
 PR Campaigns

Hearings


With stakeholders

Lobbying
For better legal
conditions
 Quality

Marketing Lobbying
Marketing
For audience
development
With visitors

Marketing
For audience
development
 Regional campaigns

Thematic campaigns

Common events




With visitors

Marketing
For audience
development
 Quality

Marketing Lobbying
 Quality

Community Recognition
Power
Marketing Lobbying
The Network of European
Museum Organisations 

ABOUT

NEMO
©©NEMO
Network of national museums
associations
and similar bodies

Members in 40 Member States

of the Council of Europe 


Funded in 1992

Office in Berlin
Together, NEMO’s members speak for over
30.000 museums across Europe

NEMO is the voice

of museums
in Europe
 © SWISS MA

VALUES
The collection is the core value of

© NEMO
every museum

COLLECTIONVALUES.
COLLECTION VALUE
We want

© NEMO
museum collections to be as widely
accessible as possible to all citizens

COLLECTIONVALUES.
COLLECTION VALUE
Reduction of physical,
legal and funding barriers
in order to encourage the
collection mobility

Guideline
 © NEMO
Museums are incubator for creativity
and innovation
ECONOMIC VALUE
 © NEMO
We want

museums to be recognised for the

economic value they produce

ECONOMIC VALUE
The study finds that
museums increase the
regional economy by
32-49 euros per visitor

Study
 © NEMO
Museums are places of formal and non-
formal learning
EDUCATIONAL VALUE
We want

© NEMO
legislators at national and European
level
to understand and promote the role
that
museums play regarding education

EDUCATIONAL VALUE
Introducing the relation
between museums and
young people with
regard to motivations
and methodologies to
improve and increase
access and engagement.

Guideline
Museums are meeting places where

© NEMO
different points of views can be shared

SOCIAL VALUE
We want

© NEMO
museums to be recognised as
organisations
that can have a significant social impact

SOCIAL VALUE
 © Generationen im Museum
Generations at
the Museum
Museums invite
participants of different
generations who did not
know each other tho
share and negociate
knowledge

© MAMbo
Best practice

© GiM
To achieve our goals

we advocate

we share

we collaborate
 Quality

Marketing Lobbying
Network Opportunities 

Within NEMO
 TRAINING.

Learning Exchanges

Visit & exchange of expertise,
to find common approaches
across museum organisations


next: 11-13 October 2017 

Dublin, Ireland
www.ne-mo.org



 TRAINING.

Training Courses
International Workshops on
business models and good
management of museums
and museum organisations
today: 15 September 2017

Paris, France

next: End of November 

Baku, Azerbaijan
www.ne-mo.org



 TRAINING.

Open webinars for museum

professionals



on audience development,
new media, digital strategies
etc.


next: November 2017
www.ne-mo.org



 TRAINING.

Working Groups
- Learning Museums

- Intellectual Property Rights

- Advocacy

- Creative Industries
next: 11 November 2017

Ghent, Belgium

as part of NEMO’s Annual Conference
www.ne-mo.org



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Going up in the world

Guidelines for Good Practice on 

International Opportunities for Museums


Judi Caton for The Council for Museums Archives and Libraries, 1999
Advantages of working internationally:
- raises the profile of the museum (80.8%)
- widens horizons (64.7)
- develops staff (60.3%)  

Chances of the international work:

- develops new audiences and visitor groups
(46.8%)
- attracts EU funds (45.5%)
- export skills and experience (40.4%)
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David Vuillaume, Network Opportunities, Bucharest, 15.09.2017