Garage Museum Director Anton Belov and Garage Chief curator Kate Fowle participated in ICOM International conference «Museum and Politics» in Saint Petersburg

Garage Museum Director Anton Belov and Garage Chief curator Kate Fowle participated in ICOM International conference «Museum and Politics» in Saint Petersburg. Speakers presented a report on «Role of the museum in creation of the area and public capital. Place of the museum in the modern conceptions of the town-planning and development of the territories».

The presentation was followed by Curator of Education at Garage Museum Anastasia Mityushina with a report «Museum as an educational institution. The Reflexive Museum: educating the communities, changing the context». 

You can find more about the conference on the ICOM site: http://museumandpolitics.ru/en/pgs/program/preliminary/spb.php