International Museum Day 2025
Date: Sunday, May 18, 2025
Time: Exhibition galleries from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Format: In-person
Free admission
Program
9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Comer tierra: tubérculos mestizos. Cooking workshop. Registration closed
10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Non-ordinary tour — Fragments of time, traces and materialities
11 a.m. to 12 p.m. A journey in five metals. Concert by the Quinteto Nacional de Metales
2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Textile graffiti. Workshop with MAMM Mediators. Registration closed
3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Non-ordinary tour — Musa. Feminine perspectives: resistance through care. Registration closed
In the framework of International Museum Day, MAMM joins the global reflection proposed by ICOM under the theme The future of museums in constantly changing communities. In a context marked by social, cultural, and technological transformations, museums are called to be active spaces of dialogue, memory, and collective action. More than custodians of the past, they are living agents that accompany communities in their processes of adaptation and resistance, keeping alive the flame of what is common and shared.
This Sunday, May 18, MAMM proposes a special program that invites us to imagine the museum as a territory in motion, where knowledge, practices, and diverse bodies converge. From a cooking laboratory with mestizo tubers, to a concert by the Quinteto Nacional de Metales, through unconventional tours, textile graffiti, and care exercises from a feminine perspective, the day will be a celebration of collective making, sensitive memory, and the possibilities of the future that we inhabit together.
Schedule
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Starting from recipes inherited from indigenous, African, Arab and Spanish peoples, we will light the stoves to reflect on our culinary roots and the cultural encounters that run through them.
The variety of tubers in Colombia, as well as their ancestral methods of planting, harvesting and preparation, will allow us to delve into thoughts about the taste of the earth, the stove as a meeting place, collective care, and how hunger and necessity sharpen human ingenuity.
During the workshop, while we talk, prepare and cook, we will work with three traditional preparations: casabe, arepa and mote de queso.
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In this special guided visit, we will tour a selection of works that put power dynamics in tension. We will explore how matter — whether metal, stone, wood or organic materials — preserves traces of time and resists disappearing.
Each exhibited piece reveals historical, social and political layers, inviting us to think about material memory as a field of resistance and transformation.
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Can a thread be as disruptive as an aerosol can? Does embroidery exist as a form of intervention in public space? What messages do urban textiles convey to us? In this laboratory, we will a-board the street with textile graffiti and discover the whispers of the environment through threads.
We will explore Yarn Bombing, a global movement that emerged around 2005, where knitters and embroiderers intervene in public space through yarns and textiles, transforming the urban landscape into artistic manifestations charged with creativity and disruption.
As a result of the laboratory, each participant will create a 30 x 30 cm tapestry on a plastic mesh, exploring the cross-stitch technique. Through different letters, we will collectively build words and phrases that dialogue with the city and with the realities observed in the immediate surroundings of the museum: everyday situations, structures, objects, or moments that challenge us. These tapestries will form an ephemeral intervention in public space, which will take place in the museum’s plazoleta and other nearby spaces.
This laboratory is inspired by the research and observation of artist Juan Fernando Herrán, who centers his work on the everyday dynamics of public space, and by the work of Juan Covelli, who rescues the artistic manifestations and citizen protests that emerged on the streets of Colombia during the social uprising of 2021.
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In this special tour, we will gather in the exhibition Musa. Perspectivas femeninas en las Colecciones del MAMM y MAC Panamá to talk about care, its relationship with the feminine and the way women have rewritten its meaning throughout history. The visit will include moments of relaxation, collective dialogue and a creative activity where we will prepare bundles for tea infusions, sharing knowledge, experiences and memories linked to personal and community care.
Activity of the Audience Development strategy of the Secretaría de Cultura Ciudadana of the Mayor’s Office of Medellín.