The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

Museum of the Commons (MoC) is a four-year project developed by L’Internationale, the European confederation of contemporary art museums. MoC encourages contemporary museums and cultural organisations to act as open-source tools for new sustainable forms of cultural co-creation, contributing to environmental, social and artistic transformation.

For over two centuries, museums have been the guardians of heritage and memory. In recent decades, they became key spaces in the public sphere where important challenges – climate change, social inclusion and equality – are addressed and debated. By understanding the cultural sector as an ecosystem made up of organisations of different scales, influences and target audiences, MoC builds sustainable collaborations between 7 museums, 3 academic institutions, 4 arts organisations and 2 associated partners with specific roles in the arts sector across the European continent (North, East, South and West). Thus, MoC will contribute to making a broader and more inclusive arts ecosystem.

The MoC project is divided into three thematic strands:
1) Climate: addressing issues of environmental sustainability;
2) Organisations in Situation: questioning the role of arts institutions as spaces of inclusion and diversity; and
3) Past in the Present: addressing history and heritage as tools for social justice.

To this end, MoC museums provide 5 interconnected elements that form the central core of their work as guardians of European heritage and memory: art collections, archives, libraries, audiences and places.

Project partners will use these elements as common goods for the development of the programme. The MoC will reaches 2 million European citizens through the production of 6 exhibitions, 4 art gatherings, 5 residency programmes, 6 nomadic schools, 50 workshops, 5 community garden projects, 1 online platform, 3 digital archives and 41 digital publications.

Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU)

(Partner) Ljubljana

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

Magda Lipska, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie (leader)

Poland (EU)
MACBA (partner)

Spain (EU)
MSU (partner)

Croatia (EU)
M_HKA (partner)

Belgium (EU)
Van Abbemuseum (partner)

Netherlands (EU)
SALT (partner)

Turkey
Valand Academy (partner)

Sweden (EU)
NCAD Dublin (partner)

Ireland (EU)
Museo Reina Sofía (partner)

Spain (EU)
Visual Culture Research Center (partner)
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (partner)

Germany (EU)
Institute of Radical Imagination (partner)

Italy (EU)
tranzit.ro (partner)

Romania (EU)

Funded projects

Land of Lace

CAFÈ: Redefining Historic Cafés as European Cultural Heritage

ArtElevate – Fostering inclusive cultural expression in Europe

CARE – Culture for Mental Health

Glassmaking Between Tradition and Innovation

WONDERCUT – Collaboratively Exploring the Public Value of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Next Level Cultural Experiences

Heroes Unleashed: Implementing a Sensory Reading Program in European Public Libraries

DATAS – The Data and the Sovereign

TALKING HEADS – Conversation with the art of the past

Libraries of Emotions for Good

GreenHeritage – Nurturing a sustainable future in the gardens of time

G-BOOK 3

PAGE: a Project for Advancing coGnitivE accessibility in publishing

DIGITAL on STAGE – Unleashing the Performing Arts Experience through Digital Innovation

OASis – Open Art Spaces in Synergy

Transport: Sustainable puppet co-creations for European young audiences

Danube Dance Alliance for Development of Contemporary Dance Scene in the Danube Region

Mind the GAP

Beletrina Digital

WOMEN interACT - participatory theatre against the double exclusion of women

TECH(ing) TALES WITH A TWIST for the children of the present

DoSEL – Drama of Smaller European Languages

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

Is this us?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Moving Balkans

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

December: Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Book (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges (OLL LE)

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)