Course: Creating Meaningful and Inclusive Museum Practices

This week, we have explored a number of complex issues which require more reading and thinking about. We first defined ethics and thought about the ways that ethical leadership lies …

In this section, we will be focusing on practices which support inclusive programming. Through examples, we will introduce three methods: community-based inventorying, community-based research and oral history. Community-based inventorying is …

In her keynote for the 2017 American Alliance of Museums Conference, disability rights advocate Haben Girma tells us that mainstream narratives and stories sometimes say that her life, as the …

Every design decision has the potential to include or exclude someone. This becomes more apparent in museums trying to become places of belonging. Inclusive design is a process that can …

For your case study, identify a local museum/cultural centre or site of memory in your area that has implemented a community advisory council. Once you have made your selection, share …