Making museums accessible to all. The new challenges of mediation - 28 March 2023 in Argenton-sur-Creuse (36)

As part of the travelling seminar Essential in 2022-2023 coordinated since 2019 by the DRAC with its partners, 90 people participated on March 28, 2023 in Argenton-sur-Creuse in the exchange day Lhe new challenges of mediation. 27 speakers from all over France (art schools, museums, archaeology, cities of art and history, performing venues etc.) responded to the invitation of the community of communes Eguzon Argenton Vallée de la Creuse, the CNFPT and the Ministry of Culture.

Cultural and scientific transmission has become the driving force behind the transformation of access to heritage. For example, the mission report Museums of the XXI^e century reminds that Many teams, even extremely small, show virtuosity. The actions they take, the partnerships they establish, illustrate the plasticity of the museum form and its ability to cope with most situations. In situ, outside the walls, dematerialised, the hybridization of proposals, programmes and mediations transforms the relationship of the public to the offer» (mission report Museums of the XXI^e century2017, p. 32).

Is there a culture of partnership in the field of mediation? How does transversality become progressively cooperative and the soil on which the projects of the mediation services will take root, what consideration of the territories, the expectations of the inhabitants? The reception and development of audiences are now at the heart of the circular economy, which offers them new opportunities; how do cultural institutions approach this societal shift? The skills of mediators also require training to discover tools, question practices and expand networks.

To support the animation of cultural networks in Centre-Val de Loire are proposed 3 working groups open to the inter-regional and focused on 2 priorities:

- Mapping actors (regulation, sociology);

- Identify existing arrangements, encourage co-production of projects;

Job (status, training, missions)

- professional mapping: status, recruitment method

- Promotion of trades, promotion of vocations;

- Initial and continuing training, transfer of skills, for example: medico-social

- Validation of regional cultural projects by bringing together elected officials and other employers;

Resels solidarity

- monitoring of topicality and inter-disciplinary research, for example: exemplary projects

- Cooperation, exchange platform (scientific and cultural project of territory, examples: general statements, newsletter, directory, co-productions, forum

- Support mechanisms: assessment and new proposals;

- value the “invisible” professionals who provide the local public service

Sociology of the public/ sustainable and citizen culture

- Surveys (improve service offerings in a collaborative culture);

- universal accessibility (cultural rights)

- Digital uses;

- early childhood

- territories of action: unifying events involving the living forces of the territory, example: transversal and inclusive subjects

- work with artists