What We Offer
If you’re planning to initiate and realise international museum projects, we can support you along the way. Through our services, we’ll accompany you as a partner at every stage of your project, providing solutions tailored to your needs. Our international programmes will connect you with museums around the world to establish long-term cooperation.
We can support you network internationally, advise you strategically, design the launch of your project, accompany your process, take on organisational tasks and impart specialised knowledge that helps you move forward.
Our services are designed for anyone working in the museum sector who wants to collaborate across borders – from museums in Germany and abroad to other organisations and individuals engaged with topics surrounding international collaboration within a museum context.
Before you start
International collaboration begins with an idea – and with many open questions. For instance: What might a project look like? What are the first steps? Where can support start?
In an initial discussion, we jointly decide what you need and how we can provide targeted support for your project. Our services cover every stage of the project – from its kick-off to tailored training.
What we can do for you:
- It’s about global connections:
Finding the right partners and establishing lasting connections - It’s the kick-off:
Sharpening your vision and clarifying the general framework – from the project outline to the roadmap - It’s your process:
Tailoring your processes and structures so that your project advances efficiently - It’s taken care of:
Taking care of tasks and responsibilities in complex international projects so that you can concentrate on your content - It’s your next level:
Sharing expert knowledge that will help you collaborate internationally
Let’s discuss which services are right for your project.
It’s about global connections
Finding the right partner for your international project is often the first step. We are familiar with the museum landscape around the world and can connect you with the right partners – for long-term partnerships or specific project plans.
Germany's museum landscape is diverse and complex. Are you looking to partner with a museum in Germany or to bring your exhibition here? We'll help you navigate country´s museum landscape and find a matching institution for your project.
Our network works for you in both directions: We conduct targeted research, provide suggestions, and establish initial connections. We facilitate further exchanges to ensure that initial contacts evolve into genuine collaborations.
We establish the following connections:
- Long-term partnerships between museums in Germany and the rest of the world
- Project-related partnerships for joint exhibitions or finding an organisation that also wants to showcase your exhibition
- Research- and knowledge-based partnerships with targeted exchanges of expertise within the museum field
Let us find the right partners for your project.
It’s the kick-off
Your status quo: Your idea for an international exhibition project begins to take shape. We introduce you to experts from the museum and cultural management sector who will sharpen your vision in a workshop. Together, you’ll develop the basic foundations for your project – strategically, contextually, and organisationally.
How we start:
- Concretise project ideas and document them as a project outline
- Analyse the general parameters, opportunities, and challenges
- Gain insights into the current situation of the country where you would like to collaborate
- Develop strategic arguments for internal and external communication
- Receive expert input on financing models or intercultural competencies as well as on loan agreements or customs regulations in the partner country
Let’s get your project off the ground together.
It’s your process
International projects often span years – and many things change in the interim. Team members come and go, priorities shift, and new challenges emerge. Experts from the museum and cultural management sector accompany you through these stages and ensure that your project stays on track.
We take a step back at regular intervals to jointly reflect on the previous course of events, processes, and structures and determine the best approach for defining the next steps.
The focus:
- Structuring and improving decision-making processes
- Planning realistic deadlines to create accountability
- Optimising international and intercultural communication channels
- Addressing and resolving colflicts
- Targeted, needs-based consulting from our network of museum experts
- Team motivation and strengthening cohesion
- Keeping the original vision in focus
Let’s work together to make your project a success.
It’s taken care of
Complex international projects require professional management. We take over the planning and organisational tasks for you, creating space for what really counts: your content.
As a sparring partner, we coordinate the various participants in your project and ensure that everything runs smoothly. We develop our services in line with your needs and the specific context of your project.
We take over these tasks:
- Project management, as a neutral intermediary between all partners
- Digital infrastructure for efficient communication and cooperation
- Interface management to ensure everyone works together on equal terms
Let´s talk about which tasks we can take off your plate.
It’s your next level
International projects make new demands. Together with experts from museums and associations, we develop continuing education offers that will aid you in your international collaborations.
We bring relevant expertise directly to you and create programmes in which you can share your knowledge with colleagues from all over the world. This relationship fosters competence that transcends borders.
This is where we take you further:
- Project management for international projects
- Customs and legal provisions in the cultural sector
- Financing strategies and funding opportunities
- Intercultural communication and cooperation
In the future, you will find our training and professional development offerings here.
“Cooperation” is already in our name. However, we understand this to mean far more than just working together. Cooperating also means learning from one another and engaging in dialogue. To achieve these objectives, we support, design, and organise research trips, networking and dialogue formats, and strategic partnerships. Our programmes strengthen all aspects of international collaboration, starting from first encounters all the way through the implementation of projects within the framework of long-term cooperations.
Perspectives
In the International Perspectives programme, we make it easier to become familiar with various topics and museum landscapes. Initial personal encounters occur as part of informational and research trips to dynamic museum regions. These trips facilitate discourse on subject-specific issues and curatorial approaches – and open up perspectives for future collaborations. This programme is aimed at museum professionals from all disciplines who work for German-based institutions and are actively seeking international exchange.
Professionals interested in this programme can apply to participate. We will publish the Call for Applications in autumn 2025.
Dialogues
In the International Dialogues programme, we promote open dialogue, mutual learning, and the development of concrete projects. To do this, we develop, host, and organise workshops, conferences, and work meetings, as well as training and outreach activities – both in person and digitally. These formats open up spaces in which critical reflection and varied perspectives come together to advance museum practices through international dialogue. The programme is aimed at museum professionals working within and outside Germany who are interested in collaborating and exchanging ideas on museum-related topics.
Professionals interested in this programme can apply to participate. We will publish the Call for Applications in autumn 2025.
Anchor Points
With the International Anchor Points programme, we promote the development of strategic museum partnerships and international expertise within museum administrations to sustainably anchor outward-looking structures in institutional environments. We support the exchange of knowledge on key topics such as regulatory frameworks, museum infrastructure, participatory museum work, digitalisation and open-source collection data, and innovative models for the shared use of resources. The programme is aimed at museums which are prepared to recognise international cooperation as an essential part of their organisational development and actively incorporate it into their administrative and working structures.
We will publish the Call for Applications in autumn 2025.
Contacts
Do you already have an idea for your project? Or would you first like to find out what we can do for you? Set up a meeting with us. We look forward to starting a conversation with you!
Charlotte Popp
Services for Museums
Kathleen Clancy
International Programmes
Learning together and from one another is an essential aspect of international cooperation. We use projects, conferences, and other models to make exchanges and knowledge transfer possible. In addition, we compile practical information, essays, and other materials from the community for you and your team. We are gradually expanding this section and will be publishing guides on museum cooperation with various countries in the future.
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Presents an overall survey of museums and exhibition halls in Germany in a graphic format (only available in German)
Infographic & Illustration: Julia Neller
Critically examines the challenges and possibilities of achieving mutuality in transnational museum collaborations
The NEMO Toolkit Funding and Cooperation offers European museums practical strategies and resources to enhance financial sustainability and foster effective cross-border partnerships
Provides a practical framework to support museums in systematically assessing and enhancing the quality and societal relevance of museum work across key operational areas (only available in German)
A podcast featuring conversations on global curatorial practices, focusing on themes such as collective authorship, alternative museum models, digital curation and decolonisation
Examines how museums are forming partnerships across various sectors to address contemporary challenges, diversify funding sources, and foster innovation
A guide to the various services in exhibition design, which can be used to calculate project costs and award contracts transparently (only available in German, English version coming soon)
Outlines shared principles, goals, and indicators to guide the sustainable development of Ibero-American museums, emphasizing cultural rights, community engagement, environmental responsibility, and institutional resilience
A practical guide based on six years of collaboration in German museums, offering tools and methods for user-centered, sustainable digital cultural mediation (only available in German)
Offers modular training materials to facilitate the integration of collections data into Wikidata using various learning approaches
Contemporary Native artists and historians respond to 18th- and 19th-century Euro-American representations in The Met's collection
What we are listening to at the office to get international endeavours rolling
Helps museums align their collections-based work with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)