The 2026 APRIL Summer Colloquium will bring together curators, community organizers, academics, and artists to explore the ways religion is represented, reified, and recreated in museums. This includes questions about representation and repatriation, conservation and conversion, display and delight.
For those selected for the colloquium, APRIL will cover the costs of transportation, food, and lodging from June 20-27 in NYC. The colloquium will provide a forum for like-minded cultural workers to discuss just how museums address religion and treat religious objects. We will take stock of developments in the field and chart a course for future research and interpretation. Curators, academics, and artists alike will collectively explore the work of museums as they care for and present religious artifacts and interpret religion as a crucial component of human cultures.