Image: National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare
The 58th CIMAM Annual Conference will take place in Harare, Zimbabwe, from 20 to 22 November 2026, marking the first time the organisation has held its annual conference on the African continent. The event is to be hosted by the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.
The announcement places Harare at the centre of an important international museum gathering with implications for the professional networks represented by CIMAM, the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art. The conference is a recurring forum for museum leaders, curators and other professionals working with modern and contemporary art collections.
According to the notice, the Harare conference is being presented as a landmark moment for Africa’s museum sector. No further programme details were included in the source material, but the dates and host venue have been set for the three-day event.
For the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, the hosting role positions the institution as the local organiser of a major global museum meeting in the Zimbabwean capital. The conference will run at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, from 20 to 22 November 2026.
