What makes a museum a ‘must-go’ destination for visitors? What are the emerging global trends in museology and what are the challenges involved in developing a ‘great’ art museum?Bringing together a panel of established academics and art experts locally and abroad, this symposium focuses on generating and deliberating on ideas of a museum’s context and contents, its role within its environment as well its presence and function in a social, cultural, intellectual and even political ecology. In essence, the symposium will investigate how museums individually and collectively can realize the challenging goal of being a ‘great’ art museum.For the programme and full list of speakers, please click here.For the moderators' biographies, please click here.Downloads
ICA Galleries 1 & 2 (B1-04/06), LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
Professor Partha Mitter
Emeritus Professor (Art History), University of Sussex, England, Member, Wolfson College, Oxford, and Honorary Fellow, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Dr Apinan Poshyananda
Director-General, Department of Cultural Promotion, the Ministry of Culture, and Professor at the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University
Dr Wayne Modest
Head of Curatorial, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
Mr Oscar Ho Hing-kay
Programme Director of the M.A. Programme in Cultural Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Independent Curator
Dr Flaudette May Datuin
Associate Professor in the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines
Dr Adrian Vickers
Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Sydney, and Director of the Australian Centre for Asian Art and Archaeology
Professor Nora A. Taylor
Alsdorf Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Ms Gridthiya Gaweewong
Curator and Artistic Director of the Jim Thompson Art Centre
Mr Amir Sidharta
Curator/Director of the Museum Universitas Pelita Harapan, Lippo Karawaci, Tangerang, and Lecturer of Architecture at Universitas Pelita Harapan
Mr Jean-Francois Hubert
Senior Consultant for Vietnamese Art, Christie’s (Singapore)
Mr Huzir Sulaiman
Co-founder and Creative Director of Studio Wong Huzir, and Joint Artistic Director of Checkpoint Theatre
Mr Ong Keng Sen
Artistic Director, TheatreWorks, Singapore
Conference
Singapore
TUESDAY, 20 JANUARY 2026Online Session
MONDAY, 26 JANUARY 2026Sands Grand Ballroom (Level 5)Sands Expo and Convention Centre
Tue 20 January 2026 - Mon 26 January 2026
8:45 AM - 4:45 PM
Fri 12 December 2025
8:15 AM - 5:30 PM
Sat 25 October 2025
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Tue 22 July 2025 - Tue 29 July 2025
1:45 PM - 5:35 PM