Training & Advocacy

Heterotopia is an Athens-based creative research studio. We are working to raise the profile of theatre, performance, and hybrid creative arts practice across the Greek heritage sector by promoting their value as research, interpretation, and engagement tools for museums, archives, historic environments, and sites of memory.

Heterotopia supports knowledge sharing and networking across what is now a growing community of practice in Greece. By supporting a range of sector skills development and advocacy actions, we aim to connect people, organisations and initiatives that are involved in heritage research, interpretation, and audience engagement as well as museum theatre, performance, role-play and re-enactment.

Read about our training programmes, talks and events here:

24-25 June 2025 – A Space for Revival: Museums for Mental and Emotional Well-being. Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, Russia

Organised by ICOM Russian Federation, Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, Psychologies Magazine and the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center (event held in Russian)

5 & 6 April 2025 10th Panhellenic Conference on Education and Culture in the 21st Century – Athens, Greece

Organised by The Museum of School Life & Education, the Pedagogical Society of Greece, Hill School and the University of Patras (event held in Greek)

20-22 March 2025 INVISIBLE FESTIVAL – L’IA et les Arts augmentés au service des Invisibles de l’Histoire – Brussels/Mons, Belgium

Initiated by XR4heritage and organized with STEREOPSIA, PRINTEMPS NUMÉRIQUE & DAAL (event held in French)

24 January 2025 Book Launch – Museum Theatre: History, Theory and Applications – Athens, Greece

Organised by the Hellenic National Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and Disigma Publications (event held in Greek)

4-7 December 2024 – Conference: Museum Communications at a Crossroads – Tbilisi, Georgia

Organised by ICOM Marketing and Public Relations with ICOM Georgia, the Union of Tbilisi Museums, Academia Europaea Tbilisi Regional Hub and the Georgian Museum of

18-22 November 2024 – ICOM CECA Annual Conference: “Delicate topics, challenging audiences” – Athens, Greece

Organized by the Hellenic National Committee of ICOM (International Council of Museums), in collaboration with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture -Directorate of Archaeological Museums, Exhibitions

09 & 10 November 2024 – The FAEROP Festival of Industrial and Manufacturing Heritage – Xanthi, Greece

Organised by PASTALI AMKE, with support from the Greek Ministry of Culture

11-13 September 2024 Digitalisation in Open-Air Museums and Reconstructions – Hybrid

Organised by EXARC and the Batavialand museum, within the context of the RETOLD project (with funding from the CREATIVE EUROPE programme).

21-22 May 2024 Digital Storytelling Festival – Online

Organised by Europeana: an initiative of the European Union, financed by the European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility and European Union Member States.

3-5 April 2024 European Innovation Days in History Education – Strasbourg and Online

Organised by HISTOLAB: a joint project between the European Union and the Council of Europe’s Observatory on History Teaching in Europe.

23 November 2023 International Forum: Overcoming Language Barriers in Museum Theatre – Online

Organised by the International Museum Theatre Alliance (IMTAL) Asia-Pacific.

23-24 November 2023 Conference: Atypical Interpretive Tools in the Museum: Music, Dance, Theater and Movement – Čačak, Serbia

Organised by the Association of Museum Pedagogues of Serbia and the Serbian national committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM)