On this page, you can find all of the presentations and video links related to the webinars of Museums Connect Without Border project, as soon as they are released.

Webinar 01 – Documentation Under Crisis  ^{16 July 2026 | 17:00 CEST}

 Presentations:

• ICOM DOCUMENTATION:
  • Compiled by Jonathan Ward, Chair; Edurne Uriarte, Editor
• FOUR LESSONS FROM UKRAINE:
  • Ihor Poshyvailo, Co-founder of HERI and ACURE, DG of the Maidan Museum
• EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN MUSEUMS IN THE CONTEXT OF ARMED CONFLICT AND CLIMATE CHANGE:
  • Elke Kellner, Managing Director, ICOM Austria

    Videos:

• With Original audio (en)
• Arabic Interpretation Channel (العربیۀ)
• Persian Interpretation Channel (پارسی)

Webinar 02 – Ethical Communication & Community Engagement ^{10 August 2026 | 17:00 CEST}

     Presentations:

• Ethical Communication & Community Engagement , A Museum Perspective from Iran:
  • Niloofar Yazdkhasti, Vice Chair, ICOM COMMS, Curator of Museums Connect Without Borders
• Navigating Risk, Building Trust, Two Stories of Risk, Trust and Consequence from the Field :
  • Heidi McKinnon,Board Chair, ICOM/ICME – Founder, Curators without Borders

    Videos:

• With Original audio (en)
• Arabic Interpretation Channel (العربیۀ)
• Persian Interpretation Channel (پارسی)

Webinar 03 – Emergency Conservation Practices ^{20 August 2026, 16:00 CEST}

 Presentations:

• Challenges of Conservation Measures:
  • Samuel Franco Arce, Cultrul First Aider, Executive Director

• What Iran’s Museums learned about Buildings, Storage and Survival :
  •  Yasaman Esmaeili, Architect, Founder & Principal, Studio Chahar , ICOM ICAMT Board Member

• The Vessel beyond the Dyke :
  • Hoang Le – Architect, Founder & CEO of Lestudioarchitects (LSA), Lecturer at Hanoi Architecture University (HAU), M.Arch, Bartlett School of Architecture.

•  When Risks Overlap,Floods, Fires, Storms, Armed Conflict and Earthquakes Increasingly combine…,
  • Aparna Tandon, Specialist in Heritage Conservation, Disaster Risk Management, Climate Action, and Peacebuilding.
    •  Recommended Readings:

• • • • First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis – Handbook
        https://www.iccrom.org/publication/first-aid-cultural-heritage-times-crisis-handbook

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      • First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis – Toolkit
        https://www.iccrom.org/publication/first-aid-cultural-heritage-times-crisis-toolkit

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        Endangered Heritage: Emergency Evacuation of Heritage Collections
        https://www.iccrom.org/publication/endangered-heritage-emergency-evacuation-heritage-collections

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        Guidance Note on Urban Search and Rescue at Heritage Sites
        https://www.iccrom.org/publication/guidance-note-urban-search-and-rescue-heritage-sites

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        PATH – Peacebuilding Assessment Tool for Heritage Recovery and Rehabilitation
        https://www.iccrom.org/publication/path-peacebuilding-assessment-tool-heritage-recovery-and-rehabilitation

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        inSIGHT – A Participatory Game for Enhancing Disaster Risk Governance
        https://www.iccrom.org/publication/insight-participatory-game-enhancing-disaster-risk-governance

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        Community-Based Heritage Indicators for Peace – A Tool for Measuring Peace
        https://www.iccrom.org/publication/community-based-heritage-indicators-peace-tool-measuring-peace

    Videos:

• With Original audio (en)
• Arabic Interpretation Channel (العربیۀ)
• Persian Interpretation Channel (پارسی)

Webinar 04 – Digital Preservation in Low-Resource Environments ^{9 September 2026, 17:00 CEST}

 Presentations:

• Pop-Up Exhibitions, A community-based model for museums in crisis and conflict-affected countries :
  • Negar Sagharichi – Collections Specialist, Tavakoli Archives, University of Toronto; Secretary, ICOM Exhibitions
  • Chantal Umuhoza – Curator, Rwanda Cultural Heritage Academy; Board Member, ICOM Exhibitions

• Innovating with Limited Resources, Practical approaches from Egyptian museums :
  • Mohamed Ismail Ibrahim – Head of the Innovation Unit and Information Systems Unit & Lecturer, Faculty of Archaeology, Ain Shams University, Egypt; Vice Chairperson, ICOM-AVICOM; Vice Chairperson of ICOM Egypt

• From Destruction to Resilience. History of the Nationl Museum of Afghanistan :
  • Ghulamreza Rezaei – Head of the Ethnography Museum, National Museum of Afghanistan

    Videos: