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ICAMT 52nd & ICOM STORAGE 1st ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2026
Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (UASB) – Quito | Ecuador
18-19-20 Nov 2026
Transforming Museum Spaces and Practices: Architecture, Sustainability, Collections, and Exhibitions in Latin America, the Caribbean and Beyond
Day 1: Museum storage as infrastructure: Sustainability Approaches
| Time | Speaker / Visit | Session / Presentation |
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration | |
| 9:00-9:30 | César Montaño Galarza, Rector UASB Hugo Calle Forrest, President ICOM Ecuador Marina Martin, Chair ICOM ICAMT Theofanis Karafotias, Secretary ICOM STORAGE |
Welcome remarks |
| 9:30-10:00 | Tatiana Villegas Zamora (Ecuador) | Keynote speaker – UNESCO Ecuador |
| 10:00-10:15 | Maria Carla Freile (Ecuador) | Transforming Museum Storage as Sustainable Infrastructure: Implementing the ICCROM REORG Methodology in Ecuador |
| 10:15-10:30 | Q&A panel | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Rosanna Kuon, Melina la Torre & Lorena Olazabal Furuya (Peru) | From Fragmentation to Integration: Designing and Implementing a Centralized Storage Facility for Heritage Conservation at MUCEN |
| 11:15-11:30 | Bart Ankersmit (Netherlands) | Beyond a Paper-Based Reality: Optimizing HVAC Control Strategies for Sustainable Museum Climates |
| 11:30-11:45 | Maria del Pilar Salas & Maria del Carmen Maza (Argentina) | RE-ORG Cono sur: the Experience and Its Impact |
| 11:45-12:00 | Jody Steiger (Costa Rica) | The Collection Sharing Project: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Museum Storage |
| 12:00-12:30 | Q&A panel | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Bus transfer to museum visits | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Group 1: Museo Nacional del Ecuador (MUNA)
Group 2: Museo Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño y Museo Arqueológico Weilbauer. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador |
Museum visits |
| 16:30-17:45 | Group 1: Museos de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana. Museo de Arte Moderno y Museo de Instrumentos Musicales
Group 2: Museo Etnográfico Abya Yala, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana y Museo Arqueológico Plutarco Naranjo Vargas, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar |
Museum visits |
| 17:45-18:15 | Bus transfer to UASB | |
| 18:15-19:00 | César Montaño Galarza, Rector UASB Juan Carlos Fernández-Catalán, Secretary ICOM Ecuador |
Welcome and Opening Ceremony, hosted by UASB |
Day 2: Hybrid Museum Spaces: Visible Storage and the Public Interface
| Time | Speaker / Visit | Session / Presentation |
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Hélène Vassal (France) | Keynote speaker – ICOM STORAGE Chair |
| 9:30-9:45 | Patrícia Pereira Martins & Ana Paula Pontes (Brazil) | Designing the Backstage: Architecture as a catalyst for public experience in the open Depot |
| 9:45-10:00 | Nyssa Mildwaters & Kate Parsons (United Kingdom) | V&A East Storehouse: Creating a Storage for Access Model |
| 10:00-10:15 | Elizabeth Diller (United States) | The Future of Museums is Storage; V&A East Storehouse |
| 10:15-10:30 | Q&A panel | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Bruynzeel (Netherlands) | Stored, Yet Seen: The Reality and Responsibility of Visible Storage |
| 11:15-11:30 | Nicole Fletcher (Canada) | Changing Spaces: WAG-Qaumajuq’s Visible Vault |
| 11:30-11:45 | Alba Letts (New Zealand) | Transparency in Practice: MOTAT’s Experiment in Opening the Storehouse |
| 11:45-12:15 | Q&A panel | |
| 12:15-12:30 | Group photo | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Bus transfer to museum visits | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Group 1: Museo de la Ciudad
Group 2: Museo de Arte Precolombino, Casa del Alabado |
Museum visits |
| 16:00-17:45 | Group 1: Museo del Carmen Alto
Group 2: Casa Museo María Augusta Urrutia |
Museum visits |
| 17:45-18:15 | Bus transfer to UASB | |
| 18:15 | Optional dinner |
Day 3: Adaptive Reuse and Historic Museum Buildings & Professional Practice and Collaborative Design
| Time | Speaker / Visit | Session / Presentation |
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Amanda Braun (Ecuador) | Keynote speaker – Executive Director National Institute of Cultural Heritage of Ecuador |
| 9:30-9:45 | Vitor Garcez (Brazil) | To Keep and to Open: Expansion and Adaptive Reuse of the Museum of Images of the Unconscious, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 9:45-10:00 | Fernanda Carvalho (Brazil) | Building a Lighting Culture for Museums: A Decade of Transformation at MASP |
| 10:00-10:15 | Marcella Verardo (France) | Eco-design for temporary exhibitions: towards a systemic transformation of museum exhibition practices |
| 10:15-10:30 | Q&A panel | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Karla Cañizares, Alex Silva & Elizabeth Velarde (Ecuador) | Integrating Architecture, Engineering, and Preventive Conservation in the Design of Heritage Collection Storage Facilities: A Case Study of the Nahim Isaías Museum |
| 11:15-11:30 | Santiago del Hierro (Colombia) & Maria Fernanda Ugalde (Switzerland) | Exhibitions as research platforms: Museums, communities, and intercultural collaboration |
| 11:30-11:45 | Matteo Renna (Netherlands) | Developing an Immersive Natural History Experience in the World’s Most Distinctive and Vulnerable Ecosystem through a Collaborative Co-Creation Process between Design, Sustainability, Construction Practice and Content Development: The Charles Darwin Visitor Centre in the Galápagos Islands |
| 11:45-12:15 | Q&A panel | |
| 12:15-14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Bus transfer to visits | |
| 15:00-17:00 | Reserva Arqueológica Nacional Resfa Parducci. Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultura
Iglesia Museo de la Compañía de Jesús |
Visits |
| 17:00-18:00 | Bus transfer to UASB | |
| 18:00-19:00 | Closing Ceremony with authorities |