James Barnor, witness to a Changing Ghana
A woman poses for the camera, seated on a giant box of Agfa photo film in Accra, Ghana. The date is October 22, 1970, and Ghanaian photographer James Barnor has…
Article published on 17.04.2025
The annual meeting of muscon - Museum Network Conferences, with over 100 participants representing some of the world's leading cultural institutions, has just come to a close at Plateforme 10. An opportunity to identify upcoming cultural trends.
The program included three days of meetings and discussions with institution representatives, visits to mudac's "Cosmos" and "Terra/Terre plate" exhibitions, and a trip to Chillon Castle.
Nathalie Herschdorfer, director of Photo Elysée, spoke about the circulation of exhibitions and works of art at a time when, more than ever, exchanges and partnerships need to be thought through from an ecological and sustainable perspective.
Since 1996, the Vitra Design Museum has organized the muscon international conference in cooperation with local hosts that change every year. The aim of this conference is to promote the international exchange of traveling exhibitions and other collaborative initiatives between museum professionals and decision-makers. The muscon network has brought together several hundred institutions and made a significant contribution to a productive exchange of traveling exhibitions in the international museum landscape.
