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Entering 2030

Report · 2025 · English · Museum Leadership House, Dubai, 10 November 2025

Intro

Museum leaders approach the next decade in a landscape defined by accelerating change, political volatility and rising expectations of public value. At the Museum Leadership House gathering in Dubai, directors and senior executives from across four continents worked through those realities using the Dubai Future Foundation's Global 50 foresight framework, with a keynote by Dr Patrick Noack on the idea of quantum shifts.

The programme followed a deliberate arc — challenges, then opportunities, then leadership vision. This report is written as a strategic reference for boards, directors, funders and policymakers shaping the next decade of museum governance.

What is inside

  • Five challenge fields defining the coming decade

  • Seven opportunity fields, from technology with purpose to wellbeing as infrastructure

  • The Museum Leadership 2030 framework: mindsets, skills and knowledge

  • What leadership holds, and what it can delegate

  • Contributions from the LinkedIn community on the skills that will matter most

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Partners

Held in collaboration with ICOM INTERCOM, alongside the ICOM Triennial 2025. Keynote by Dr Patrick Noack of the Dubai Future Foundation.