Dina Gohar shares her ITP Conference Grant 2025 report!!

Written by Claire Messenger, Manager, International Training Programme

In April we were delighted to share that we had awarded an ITP Conference Grant 2025 to Dina Ramadan Gohar Mekhemer, Curator at the Alexandria National Museum (Egypt, ITP 2023).

Dina used her grant to attend the ICOM UK Conference 2025 which was held in Liverpool, UK on 1 & 2 May.  Regenerative Museums for Sustainable Futures focused on how museums can address climate and social emergencies. The event emphasized moving beyond sustainability and net-zero goals toward restoring ecosystems, rebalancing value systems, and using cultural heritage to foster climate action.

Dina joined museum colleagues from around the world to share practical examples of regenerative development in museums.

In her detailed report, Dina shares how attending the conference helped her understand current developments taking place in museums, worldwide, in the field of sustainable development.  This new knowledge will support her role and help her apply relevant practices to museums across Egypt. Sustainability is relatively new in many museums and is evolving rapidly, and her conference experience has increased her skills, knowledge and awareness of global experiences and will enable her to share her learning from case studies across the sector. The conference will also support Dina in completing her master’s thesis, as her research topic focuses on sustainability in museums and community engagement.

Dina’s report shares her experiences of the conference, of Liverpool and the networking and contacts made during the two-day event. Read Dina’s report HERE

We were delighted to be able to support Dina this year and to now share her final report on her conference experience.