Course: Creating Meaningful and Inclusive Museum Practices

Your lead educators for this course are: Armando Perla Armando Perla is an academic, consultant, activist and curator. He is a board member of the ICOM International Committee on Ethical …

Welcome to this course on building and strengthening inclusive museums. We are excited to have you on this learning journey with us. In this course we will, through diverse and …

What is exclusion? Kelly Lynn Mulvey, Corey Boswell and Jiali Zheng state that ”although peer rejection and exclusion are often due to interpersonal reasons, both can also be the result …

During the first week of this course you met your instructors, looked at the course structure and understood the type of content you can expect during this course. You have …

Following the increase in violence and persecution of the Rohingya people in Burma, the Rohingya community reached out to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) early in 2017. They …

In the article discussed in the previous step Wendy Ng, Syrus Marcus Ware and Alyssa Greenberg define allyship as: “a way of working together, across multiple identities, to create work …

In their article Activating Diversity and Inclusion: A Blueprint for Museum Educators as Allies and Change Makers, museum professional Wendy Ng, artist, activist and scholar Syrus Marcus Ware, and museum …

Appalled at the lack of accessible information and resources related to their intangible cultural heritage, young people in Xam gathered and created a forum through which to begin an active …

Find a comfortable, quiet space. Make yourself comfortable in a place where you can journal for at least 15 minutes. Open to a clean sheet in your journal Write the …

Marginalized groups have often been ignored and misrepresented in traditional historical written sources, and this has contributed to their exclusion and erasure within many museums. Oral history can help correct …

According to Laurajane Smith, Anna Morgan and Anita van der Meer, the project discussed in the previous step challenged the standard notions of what constitutes ‘heritage’, which usually tends to …

As shown in previous examples in this course, Indigenous peoples should lead the processes that directly affect them. This includes researching, collecting, archiving, and interpreting their cultural heritage. As Linda …

This article is a reflection on a research exercise conducted through the Commonwealth Association of Museums (CAM). The CAM is an international NGO based in Canada. It supports the work …

ICOM designed a Code of Ethics which was first adopted by its members in 1986. The code was revised in 2004 in keeping with trends and changes within society at …

We would like to encourage you to reflect on some of the challenges of using and working with the term ‘diversity’. To provide a critical framework, we would like to …