The Museum of Care is an international informal creative space where anyone can propose and collectively realize a project. Some of MoC projects are supported by DGI, and some exist in their own right.

The network of solidarity formed during #Carnival4David is being transformed into the Museum of Care. For a few years now, we’ve been meeting online or offline every Thursday to host reading groups, public art projects, conferences and educational programs.

In collaboration with DGI and the Museum of Care, an idea emerged to join an international system of solidarity through physical spaces that would house freely distributed Survival Kit Collection alongside local collections that matter to the people who (we hope) will create similar museums. The project began with research into abandoned ships worldwide—there are thousands of them polluting the oceans—that could become free spaces for such museums. We love this idea—it’s both beautiful and practical: they’re free, abandoned structures that are currently polluting the ocean but could be transformed into something crucially important for us all.

Like Alexander Bogdanov’s Proletkult, the Museum of Care wants to rethink what it is to be a museum or an artist, and how to produce spaces for freedom and care. In the Museum of Care, art is not the pinnacle of the symbolic or the production of works that can’t be touched, but a practice of building better worlds. Every person deserves the same care and attention that we currently direct towards monuments and masterpieces – and should for all eternity.