[Tokyo] NCAR Talk 010: "With Whom and How Do We Create a Museum? Learning from the Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) About Museums Created Together with Visitors"
NCAR hosts a talk with QAGOMA's Tamsin Cull on building museums together with visitors through participatory practices.Summary
The National Center for Art Research (NCAR) will hold a talk event titled "With Whom and How Do We Create a Museum? Learning from the Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) About Museums Created Together with Visitors" on November 17, 2026, at Hitotsubashi Hall in Tokyo. The guest speaker is Tamsin Cull, Head of Public Engagement at QAGOMA in Australia, with Yoshizawa Natsumi of the National Art Center, Tokyo, as interviewer. The talk will present QAGOMA's concrete practices, including the Children's Art Centre where artists and visitors collaborate, participatory initiatives in large-scale exhibitions, and the exhibition "Wonderstruck" (2025), which combines over 100 collection works with hands-on displays. Capacity is 100 people, admission is free, and advance registration is required (deadline November 16 at 17:00). The event will be held in English with consecutive Japanese interpretation, and there will be no simultaneous streaming.
(Source：artscape)