Museum Week is a

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event that takes place during one week each year with the participation of

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s. Museum Week started in 2014 with a collaboration of twelve French

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wishing to expand their audience, each year the event promotes a different international cause. In 2015, the second year, Museum Week became a trending global cultural event on

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History

Institutions open their doors both virtually and physically. On Twitter, they use seven

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s (including the hashtag ''#MuseumWeek''), using a different hashtag each day for a week (see table below). Launched in 2014 on Twitter, Museum Week brought together almost 700 European institutions on Twitter in the first year. In 2015, the

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organized an event asking one question: "What is the cultural heritage of our time that will be passed on to future generations?" In response, the institution set out to archive all Tweets featuring the word #MuseumWeek in a time capsule. With a size of 60 × 30 × 28.6 cm and a weight of 30 kilos, the capsule is composed of acrylic, glass, carbon fibre, and metal. Sealed on March 29, 2015 at midnight, it will not be opened before 2035 and contains information for future generations about our way of life and our consumption of art in 2015. The 4th event took place in 2017 on new platforms:

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. The event is organized by the association Culture for Causes Network. Each year, MuseumWeek promotes a different theme. The 2017 MuseumWeek mobilized 2,200 institutions, museums,

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, galleries in 2016 and expanded to 75 countries in 2017. Almost 5,000 institutions participated in 2018, in 120 countries . In 2019, MuseumWeek, used the hashtag #WomenInCulture to highlight the place of women in culture in the past, present, and future. Among the events was one in Paris with the artist

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at the Cite nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration and in New York at Michele Mariaud Gallery with Laurence de Valmy. In 2020, Museum Week partnered with MTArt Agency founded by Marine Tanguy to promote the event. In 2021 Museum Week is from June 7-13.

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is among their partners.

References

External links

Museum Week official website
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