bringing the museum to the street to raise awareness on the significance of museums and heritage preservation. In Tibet, the Tibet Museum in Dharamshala took part in IMD events with a schedule of special programmes including guided tours, talks, demonstration of thangka painting and showcase of traditional Tibetan costume. 2015 In 2015 the theme was Museums for a sustainable society. The Uganda Museum in Kampala, in Uganda, encouraged visitors to take a plant home or plant a tree at the museum to do their part in creating a sustainable environment. The National Forestry Authority donated trees to the cause. The "Sc'Arti in Mostra" exhibition organised and promoted by the province of Avellino, in Italy, was the product of an art contest inspired by the themes of reusing and recycling waste through art. The exhibition, open to the public, supported a culture of recycling. 2016 About 35,000 museums in 145 countries on all continents participated in IMD 2016. The theme of the 2016 event is Museums and Cultural Landscapes. The National Gallery of Victoria in Australia organised a conference to discuss how public and private institutions gather their collections and how such collecting can create or preserve a cultural landscape. The Chimczuk Museum in Windsor, Canada, used International Museum Day as an opportunity to open the "Fighting in Flanders" exhibition in the presence of the Belgian ambassador to Canada. 2017 The theme for this year was Museums and contested histories: Saying the unspeakable in museums, highlighting the role of museums for promoting peaceful relations while confronting contested historical narratives. 2017 saw a new record in the number of institutions and countries taking part in IMD, with 36,000 museums from 156 countries. 2018 In 2018 the theme for IMD was Hyperconnected Museums: New approaches, new publics. 143 regions or countries took part in the event and 92 countries celebrated the day as a national holiday. 2019 The 2019 IMD was themed Museums as Cultural Hubs: The future of tradition, the same theme as the 2019 ICOM General Conference in Kyoto. 2020 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, IMD 2020 under the theme, Museums for Equality: Diversity and Inclusion, was primarily marked with virtual events. 2021 In 2021, the IMD theme focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on museums, and how they can recover from the impact under the theme The Future of Museums: Recover and Reimagine. During the pandemic the world's