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Decolonization
‘Relationships Don’t Have an End Goal’: A Q&A with the Burke Museum’s Decolonization & DEAI Team
A Long Way Home for ‘Looted’ Art Is Getting Shorter
Curators at major museums are increasingly grappling with a thorny topic: restitution. This article is part of our latest special section on Museums, which focuses on new artists, new …
Recasting the Civic Imperative of the Museum
Carnegie Museum asks for visitor feedback on cultural sensitivity, exhibits with complicated pasts
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History is taking steps to help reckon with its colonial…
Rethinking Our Human Resources Practices to Build a More Equitable Museum
Germany first to hand back Benin bronzes looted by British
Germany is to become the first country to hand back the Benin bronzes looted by British soldiers in the late nineteenth century. A decision on the restitution was facilitated by the fact …
How Two Artists’ Transformation of a Portland Museum May Provide a Blueprint for Larger Institutions
Washington County Museum in Portland, Oregon brought itself back from the brink of failure through decolonizing its practices and reinventing itself as the Five …
“Decolonizing is Literally Unsettling”: Repatriation of Nonprofit Land and Assets
The Call of the Moment: Marjorie Schwarzer on the New Edition of Riches, Rivals, and Radicals
Building True, Lasting Collaborations with Source Communities
Apsáalooke exhibition at Field Museum avoids stereotypes, shows ‘Native Americans are still here.’
The atrocities committed against indigenous people by white settlers are being acknowledged in Chicago and across the country, but the "Apsáalooke Women and Warriors" exhibit at the …