Sustainable Culture – From Ideas to Action

• Language of the training: English
• Duration: 5 days (6 × 45 minutes per day)
• Daily schedule: 9:00–11:15 Block I (3 × 45 min) · 11:15–11:45 break · 11:45–14:00 Block II (3 × 45 min)
• Number of participants: minimum 6, maximum 20
• Location: Hungarian Open Air Museum, Szentendre, Hungary

• museum educators
• public relations and communication staff
• exhibition organisers, cultural managers and other museum professionals
• library and archive professionals
• staff of other cultural institutions

Many institutions strive to operate more sustainably, yet it is difficult to integrate a green approach into cultural programmes, community relations and everyday professional practice. The training helps participants see how their institutions can become actors that shape attitudes, involve communities and inspire action for sustainability. Participants are also invited to share their own good practices and develop ideas together.

By the end of the training, participants will…

• know the principles of sustainable museum operation, the areas of the Green Museum criteria system and international good practices of museums related to sustainability;
• understand the interconnections of sustainability and how a museum’s operation, professional activities, community role and awareness-raising impact relate to one another;
• apply the aspects of the Green Museum criteria system to assess their own institution, to identify sustainability challenges and to use community-based, creative and participatory methods;
• create a feasible sustainability initiative tailored to their own institutional context, with an action plan setting out objectives, target groups, required resources, implementation steps and expected impacts;
• collaborate with museum professionals from different countries and fields, analyse sustainability challenges, share good practices and develop solutions together.

• Day 1 – LOOK – Overview: How green is my institution / museum really?
• Day 2 – RETHINK: Is there anything we could do differently – and how? Sharing participants’ good practices.
• Day 3 – ENGAGE: How can we involve the community?
• Day 4 – SHARE – Good practices: exhibition ideas, museum education programmes, sustainable events; institutional visit at the Hungarian Open Air Museum, Szentendre.
• Day 5 – ACT: How do we put it into practice? Project planning: objectives, target groups, resources, scheduling, indicators, expected results and longer-term impact. Outcome: your own Sustainable Culture Action Plan.

• short professional inputs
• presentation of good practices
• institutional visit
• workshops
• group work
• practical exercises
• case studies
• experience sharing
• reflective activities
• tasks adaptable to participants’ own institutional contexts

International elements: exploring good practices from different countries, examining cultural differences, international group work, experience sharing, examples from partner institutions, collaborative problem-solving.

• Course fee: EUR 400 per person
• The fee includes: pre-arrival information, tuition and training materials, administrative and organisational costs, documentation support, coffee breaks
• A late registration fee applies for registrations made less than 8 weeks before the course start
• Funding: eligible for Erasmus+ KA1 mobility funding (applied for by the participant’s organisation)

Further course dates (open for enrolment): 26–30 April 2027 · 10–14 May 2027 · 24–28 May 2027

Museum Education and Methodology Centre – Hungarian Open Air Museum
mokkkepzes@skanzen.hu

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