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Contemplating Colonial Echoes: Visitor Perspectives in a Portuguese Museum

By Tamara Newton

This exhibition critique first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. Museums and ethnographic collections did not reflect reality; they created a new reality, parallel to the …
Editor’s Letter: Present Tense, the Spring 2026 issue of Exhibition Journal

By Jeanne Normand Goswami

This letter by Exhibition‘s editor Jeanne Normand Goswami first appeared in the Spring 2026 issue, Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. If you don’t read the journal, become a member to receive your digital copy of the …
Present Tensions: A Snapshot of the Pressures Facing U.S. Museums

By Leander Gussman

This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. In recent years, museums in the United States have been pulled into national debates about history, identity, and …
Contested Figures in Museum Praxis

By Julia Peristerakis and Isabelle Masson

This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. If you don’t read the journal, become a member to receive your digital copy of the full upcoming issues. As a museum …
Echoes from the Key Bridge: Collecting and Interpreting Contemporary Events

By Anita Kassof, Beth Maloney, and Verónica E. Betancourt

This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. In the early morning of March 26, 2024, Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed into the Patapsco …
Centering the Cellphone, Decentering the Museum

By Laura Donnelly-Smith, Christyna Solhan, Marion Le Voyer, and Nicole Webster

This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. In 2019, an 11th-grader from the District of Columbia talked with exhibition development and education staff members at …
A Colossal Mirror: Museums as a Refuge for the Real in the Age of AI

By Lauren Thompson and Stefania Van Dyke

This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. The museum is a colossal mirror in which man contemplates himself, in short, in all his aspects.—Georges Bataille, 1929[i] …
Exhibition as Process: CoLab Studio’s Adaptive Model for Rapid, Collaborative Curation

By Devon M. Akmon

This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. In an era of rapid change and deep uncertainty, museums face mounting pressure to stay relevant, …
Vanishing Space: Interpreting Agricultural Change in Real Time

By Jennifer Rogers, PhD, and LaShell Martinez

This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. Collin County has been a farming community since its founding in 1846.[i] It spans over 538,240 acres with …
Restorative Museums: A Primer for Exhibition Practice

By Kate Merrick

This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. Although museums often claim to be among the most trusted institutions,[i] that trust has been tested in recent years. In …