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TrendsWatch 2019: Confronting the Past: The long, hard work of decolonization

By Elizabeth Merritt

This is one of the five trends from the 2019 TrendsWatch. Click here to read more about the full report. “Colonialism and imperialism have not settled their debt to us once they have withdrawn their flag and their police force from our …
Museums Should Take Notes from Black Panther and Beyoncé: How to engage visitors in difficult discussions using popular media

By Stacey Ingram Kaleh

These days, when museums make it into popular conversation it’s a cause for celebration in the community. As we face increasing competition for leisure time and new challenges in audience engagement due to emerging technologies and …
Listen to the Interns: The Importance of the “Budding Scholar” for Museum Decolonization

By Ashleigh Smith

As a junior in college, I think I might have found my calling—for now anyway. For the past two and a half years I have been studying Art History, Museum Studies, and African American History at Duke University. I’ve committed myself to the …
Museopunks Episode 32: Changing the Canon

By Suse Anderson

Museum collections in established institutions come with long histories. So how do you change a museum’s canon? In this episode, we speak with Christopher Bedford, Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director of The Baltimore Museum of Art, about the …
Decolonisation: we aren’t going to save you

By Puawai Cairns

In today’s guest post, Head of Mātauranga Māori (Head of the taonga Māori collection) at Te Papa, Puawai Cairns (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Pūkenga) reflects on what decolonisation means to the museum sector and what it …
How Can Museums Empower Communities? TACA Perforum

By Elizabeth Merritt

Last month I had the honor of speaking on a panel organized by The Arts Community Alliance (TACA) in Dallas, hosted by the Nasher Sculpture Center. Every year TACA brings together speakers for Perforum: a Conversation to Advance Arts and …
A Roundup of Decolonization News

By Elizabeth Merritt

The popularity of last week’s guest post by Frank Howarth on decolonizing the museum mind prompts me to share a round-up of some of the stories I’ve been collecting on efforts to decolonize museum practice. The following abstracts and …
Decolonizing the Museum Mind

By Frank Howarth

At the heart of modern museum work is the tension between our mission to preserve the past, and a moral obligation to confront the bias and inequities entangled with that inheritance. The history, mindset, and material culture of …
Museopunks Episode 26: Decolonize the Museum!

By Suse Anderson

The vision of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine, describes how the museum “will reflect and realize the values of decolonization in all of its practices, working with the Wabanaki Nations to share their stories, history, and culture …
A Space for Resilience/A Space for All

By Mac Buff

I agreed to write a blog post about cultural responsiveness in education before November 8. To be honest, I didn’t have much of an idea of what I would write then, but I woke up November 9th with even less direction. And then I listened to …