The Creative Museum in Helsinki

Museolitto (Finnish Museums Association) hosted a conference Creative Museum – A Gamified Conference for Makers, Museums and Independent Minds in the Theatre Museum and Finnish Museum of Photography, Cable Factory.
The one-day conference presented the conclusions of an compared analysis of creative practices accross Europe and introduced the audience to the concept of how play can develop creativity as well as harness good collaboration and communication with colleagues and potential audiences.

Full Porgramme

1:00 Welcome, introduction and warming up

• Welcome by event chair Jasper Visser
• The Creative Practices analysis feedback – Cécile Marsan, Cap Sciences
• Let’s play! Introduction to the conference game
• Workshop facilitators present their workshop

1:45 Two rounds of workshops
Choose two 20-minute workshops from the full menu:

• What you always dreamed of doing in a museum? Rub the magic lamp and make it!, Juliette Giraud, Museomix
• The Magic Carpet of Technology Tales, Marianna Karttunen, Museum of Technology
• Music robotics – Arduino based sound installation from recycled materials, Mehackit
• Noisepencil: Drawing as a sound making synthesizer, Art & Craft School Robotti
• Mechanical Exquisite Corpse, Matti Niinimäki, Månsteri
• The synergy of art and mathematics in Islamic Art – a creative approach, Jo-Anne Sunderland Bowe, Heritec and Jenny Siung, CBL

2:45 Keynote Mikko Myllykoski, Heureka: Museums in the Making
Coffee and two more rounds of the game

3:30 Two rounds of workshops
Choose two 20-minute workshops from the full menu (above).

4:30 Wrap up and cooling down

• Final rounds of the game
• Recommendations for the creative museum, Jo-Anne Sunderland-Bowe, Heritec
• Concluding remarks by chair Jasper Visser
• Drinks and snack

5:30 End of event