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Small Visual ArtsOrganisations (SVAOs) are structurallysmall, non-profit spaces that are dedicated to the production and thedissemination of contemporary art. They mostly emerged after the 1990s invarious parts of the world. On the one hand, they are characterised by aninterest in their local communities and in urban issues ranging from newtechnologies to social art practices in their cities. On the other hand, theybelong to international networks, such as Arts Collaboratory, comprised of 23like-minded spaces in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. By building trust with localcommunities that often have little or noprevious exposure to the arts and by investing in tailor-made projects, SVAOswork under the logic of ‘creating publics’ rather than ‘attracting audiences’.There is significant room for museums to learn from SVAOs, such as Casco(Netherlands), lugar a dudas (Colombia), Raw Material Company (Senegal),ruangrupa (Indonesia) or The Showroom (UK), and their interests inprocess-based cultural practices, in research-oriented activities, insupporting young and underexposed artists, in alternative pedagogies, and infostering strong levels of engagement with their publics. In the course of myinvestigation, it has become clear that Latin America is the region where theleast research has been produced on the emergence and proliferation of thesespaces, despite their presence in almost every country of the region. In thiscontext, they emerged out of the necessity to experiment with distinct mediaand from the desire to have a platform where regional socio-political concernscould inform artistic practice. My project investigates the recent activity of some of these spaces in Latin America, mainly in Colombia, Mexico and Costa Rica, and to trace their international collaborations. &#160;By borrowing the concept of ‘transmodernity’ from Mexican-Argentinian philosopher Enrique Dussel, I will explore if, and how, the transcultural museum of today can learn from tailor-made forms of artistic mediation articulated in these SVAOs. Circulations and processes of artistic exchanges generated through their translocal networks with other like-minded spaces in various parts of the world will be explored. Ana Bilbao  is a Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of York. Her research explores histories of exhibition-making and art institutions, as well as contemporary art from the Global South. Prior to joining the University of York, she was editor of Afterall Journal and research fellow at Afterall Research Centre at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. In 2017 she was a Visiting Scholar in the Art History Department at KU Leuven, Belgium. Ana has worked in various areas of the cultural sector, including arts education, curating, and art fairs 