Facilitation: Origins, Practices and Memory

Round table only available in French

This symposium will look at facilitation from three angles as part of the New Uses of Collections in Art Museums Partnership. The event will open by exploring the complexity of facilitation’s gradual rise and legitimization within museum institutions, then go on to unpack its current status and the practices used by facilitators, whose profession is too often overlooked. Lastly, the speakers will consider the effect of these initiatives within museums and examine how they participate in memory construction.

Combining lectures, dialogue and debate, the symposium will touch on the vocabulary and professionalization of facilitation, its ever-evolving methods, the influence of digital technology, and the residual (or not) role of the museum’s material traces. Going against the grain of dominant approaches to the question, the speakers will look not at facilitation’s impact on the visitor experience, but at how it gives rise to and nurtures the history, habits and reflexive turn of museums.

Event program

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Information

Space is limited, reservation required.
Is the activity you’re interested in fully booked? Show up 15 minutes early to get on the waitlist. Places may become available before the start of the activity.

• Free activity, in French only, on Friday, May 2, 2025, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Duration: 7:30
• Location: J. Armand Bombardier Theatre at the McCord Stewart Museum and online.

Attend the event online

Register online to receive the link to join the live broadcast (you will receive an email a few minutes prior to the event)