About MCA

Michael Culture Association (MCA) is a non-profit organisation AISBL, created in 2007 under Belgian law. It is a trans-sectoral and trans-domain European network focusing on the preservation, promotion and valorization of heritage and digital cultural contents, and its communities.

MCA gathers more than 200 members and experts from private and public cultural institutions, such as museums, libraries, archives, research centres and Ministries of culture, from EU and beyond – many of which represent cultural operators at a national level.

Our missions

To enhance the network of professionals working on Digital Cultural Heritage, and support our members

MCA gathers a strong network of more than 200 public and private organization all over Europe.

We aim at to gather and develop a strong network of cultural and institutional professionals across Europe and beyond, through various actions towards our members and the Minerva Network. We also favor cooperation and trans-domain exchanges between professionals from all cultural fields.

To preserve and valorize European cultural heritage and contents, and give access to its richness through its digitization and dissemination across Europe and worldwide

We facilitate the transnational circulation of cultural works and technological developments to digitize cultural contents and heritage, in the most sustainable and inclusive way. In doing so, we give the general public access to the richness of European heritage, and enable reuse and personal re-appropriation of cultural content by the end users. This stimulates intercultural dialogue between citizens, promotes diversity and contributes to the rising of European citizenship.

To strengthen European and national cultural exchanges and policies

Our association is planned around animating a platform of reflection, debate and knowledge exchanges to promote national and European policies and activities on Digital Culture Heritage. It induces an enriched intercultural dialogue between professionals from all over Europe, contributing to structure and nurture the debate on the creation of a common cultural and democratic European space.

To facilitate cooperation with other major European cultural and heritage networks and projects

Open to all domains, our association is interconnected to other networks in cultural heritage, artistic creation, innovation and cultural policies, favoring open dialogue and impacts beyond our own network, multiplier effects and transnational projects development. The association promotes cultural diversity in line with the UNESCO convention and the reduction of the fragmentation.

We are also proud board members of Culture Action Europe, member of the Heritage Alliance 3.0, member of the EAC-Heritage Expert Group and of Europeana Pro and Europeana Aggregators Forum.

Main activities

Support the transmission and exchange of information, particularly via projects, publications, conferences and events
Research, capacity building and training
Networking and participation in European and international projects
Advocacy and Policy analysis and advancement
Promotion of the use and reuse of digital cultural content in different fields, such as Research, Education, Tourism areas, etc.
Management of Museu-Hub, the trusted domain aggregator for museums within the Europeana Initiative / Data Space for Cultural Heritage