CONFERENCE 2025

CONFERENCE 2025

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Liverpool, UK | 25 – 28 November 2025

This two-day international event will consider the many ways in which we can approach and balance our responsibilities as children’s museum professionals, keeping pace with the issues and challenges today’s children face, helping them to become strong, confident and resilient, while at the same time using our museums as platforms for experiencing learning in a joyful way, to truly make a difference!

THE PROGRAMME

The programme is now LIVE and LIVING!

There will be plenty of different sessions in various formats. You can have a look here. Study tours are offered as well!

 

Hosted by Eureka! The National Children’s Museum

We will explore the conference themes from a number of perspectives, sharing and listening with colleagues from the cultural sector around the world, and challenging ourselves to explore the impact we are having through the eyes of the children and families who visit us, the partners we work with, our colleagues and even ourselves.

Special offer for members

Members receive a discount for the Hands On! Conference, which takes place every two years in a different cultural city. This is a unique opportunity for the international Hands On! community to meet, exchange ideas and get inspired. Members can submit proposals to host lectures, workshops and presentations about their organization during the conference.

Past conferences

Bern 2023

Vienna 2021

Frankfurt 2019