Transforming inclusion in museums
Issued Date
Copyright Date
2022
Resource Type
Language
eng
Text
Text
File Type
application/pdf
No. of Pages/File Size
102
ISBN
97815381618906
Alternative Title(s)
The Power of Collaborative Inquiry (American Alliance of Museums)
Author(s)
Other Contributor(s)
Abstract
"Inclusion" is a word, a concept, a value, a set of practices, but what should it mean for museum staff and leaders as they envision new ways of being a museum in an emergent future? Political and environmental upheavals, and now a global pandemic, are transforming the museum landscape forever. How can our paradigm for understanding inclusion continue to transform as well? This book offers a new paradigm for understanding inclusion grounded in a retrospective of museum worker efforts to test the limits of inclusion, a reflection on inclusion's advantages and limitations in practice, as well as the integral concerns of racial equity and social justice. Questions throughout the book invite readers to reflect on how their own experiences can add to, and expand on, new ways of thinking about inclusion in museums. Museum workers and lovers can use this book as a tool for engaging with "inclusion" anew, and as a terrain for collaborative inquiry and world-building that can help us imagine and realize new potential for museums in the future.
Table of contents
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Prefacev ix
Introduction 1--
1What Is Inclusion? A Genealogy of Inclusion in US Museums 11--
2 On the Limits of Inclusion 35--
3 Opening Up to Transformation 47--
4 Implications for the Field 73--
5 Future Visioning 85--
Appendix 89--
Index 97--
About the Authors 101--