How Can We Remake The Museum? An Opening Conversation, Symposium held at Carnegie Museum of Art Theater on September 30th, 2025 with Lisa Dorin, Harrison Kinnane Smith, James McAnally, Alisha Wormsley, and moderated by Elizabeth Chodos.

Remaking the Museum

Remaking the Museum is a creative research program developed by ICA Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University. Designed to help define the theoretical and operational foundation for our new institution, the program both informs the near-term realization of public symposia and initiatives, and serves as a key dimension in our planning for the launch of our new, purpose-built home within the Richard King Mellon Hall of Science.

Anchoring the program is a series of roundtables with artists, curators, institutional leaders, writers, and cultural thinkers from Pittsburgh and beyond. Launched in June 2025 and developed in collaboration with Walk Together, these closed-door conversations offer opportunities to consider collaboratively how to develop new institutional forms and methodologies to meet the challenges of the moment.