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Decolonizing Museum Practices


What does it mean to decolonize a museum? - MuseumNext

The Washington Post defines it as “a process that institutions undergo to expand the perspectives they portray beyond those of the dominant ...

Decolonising Museums - Campaigns

Decolonisation is not simply the relocation of a statue or an object; it is a long-term process that seeks to recognise the integral role of empire in museums – ...

Teaching Decolonizing and Indigenizing Curatorial and Museum ...

This section focuses on the content, format, and purpose of a “decolonizing museums in practice” (DMIP) course, and the reception of the course by participants.

Decolonizing Initiatives - Museum of Us

The heart of our decolonizing initiatives work is to acknowledge and redress the ways that our museum participated in the colonial enterprise.

Museums as spaces and places

– Create a plan for decolonising digital spaces, with a focus on addressing inequality and exclusion. This could include social media projects, blog posts and ...

Special Feature: Decolonizing Museums in Practice - Part 3 (Feat ...

In this episode of anthropological airwaves, we speak with Wayne Modest, Director of the Research Center for Material Culture at the consortium of four ...

Museum Decolonization: Moving Away from Narratives Told by the ...

In order to decolonize museums, it is also important to create experiences that dismantle racism rather than putting it on display. Museums have ...

Decolonization - American Alliance of Museums

Decolonization is the act of reflecting, expanding, and implementing change in whose perspectives and voices the museum chooses to portray.

Decolonizing museums — some notes and good practices - Ki Culture

Decolonizing a museum means questioning all aspects of the institution and asking ourselves the right questions. Museums should be open to ...

ON DECOLONIZING THE MUSEUM IN PRACTICE - jstor

Similarly, Christina Kreps summarized the decolonization of museum practice as 'acknowledging the historical, colonial contingencies under which collections ...

Decolonizing Museums in Practice - Museum Study

Decolonizing Museums in Practice course. Instructors Laura Phillips, Heather George, Nathan Sentance. Focus on looking critically at how museum ...

Decolonizing the Museum - EuropeNow

Decolonizing the Museum · Amy Lonetree, “Indigenizing Museum Practice,” in Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and ...

Special Feature: “Decolonizing Museums in Practice” - Part 1 ...

It means something quite differently to different people and actually the way that you act out, it's very specific. ... Whereas for the museum, ...

Decolonising museums - a reading list - DevelopmentEducation.ie

The author of 'Decolonize Museums', Shimrit Lee, assembles a list of essential reading on the past, present and future of museums.

Decolonizing Museums: Toward a Paradigm Shift | Annual Reviews

This review examines the discourses and practices that have produced a lively literature on museum decolonization created by scholars of museum practices ...

Full article: Decolonizing the Museum - Taylor & Francis Online

It aims to intervene in art museum practices to emphasize the ongoing need for healing from colonial trauma through reconciliation and ...

Decolonizing the museum: beyond victims and villains | Culture

Decolonizing a museum is not about perpetuating narratives about who was better or worse, about whether Spaniards were kinder or fairer toward the original ...

Decolonize Museums - Shimrit Lee - OR Books

Decolonize Museums · “... in-depth research, which interrogates the foundations of museum and curatorial principles, makes Decolonize Museums an abundant read—it ...

Museums of Native culture wrestle with decolonizing - Harvard Gazette

A panel of museum experts discuss the ways in which museums, which are quintessential colonial institutions, can recreate their missions and ...

Decolonising Museum Practice in a Postcolonial Nation - De Gruyter

This study investigates how memory lives on through the circulation of colonial memory that the museum simulates.