Overview
- Museums worldwide marked International Museum Day Monday with open doors and talks, including a Prado collections lecture at Mexico City's Center for Spanish Culture.
- The International Council of Museums, which created the day in 1977, set this year's theme on sustainability and community wellbeing to guide programming.
- In Peru, the Culture Ministry lists more than 400 registered museums, yet many face scarce funding, limited infrastructure and weak outreach that constrain access.
- Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History points to a dense network of 162 museums and nearly 200 archaeological zones, with events running nationwide since the weekend.
- Digital tools that grew during the pandemic, such as virtual tours and online exhibits, remain a key way for people to explore collections without traveling.