From Sept. 1 to 7, Kyoto will host thousands of museum directors, curators and art historians from Japan and around the world for the general assembly meeting of the Paris-based International Council of Museums (ICOM).
Over the week, a range of culture, art, archaeology and museum-related workshops, seminars and special events will take place. Among other topics, participants will discuss how museums can handle historical themes such as decolonization, and there will be a session on Sept. 2 on how the voices of Imperial Japan's former colonial territories are presented at museums.
In addition, the American branch of ICOM will tackle a more current U.S. political, social, and cultural debate in a session entitled "A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture during the age of Bush, Obama, and Trump."
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