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Museums & Race

A project to challenge and re-imagine institutional policies and systems that perpetuate oppressions in museums.

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Welcome to Museums & Race: Transformation and Justice, a movement to challenge and re-imagine institutional policies and systems that perpetuate oppressions in museums.

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SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING

We’re gearing up for WE ALL GET FREE retreat + restorative experience
AAM 2019 pre-conference workshop + Transformation & Justice Lounge
Laissez les bons temps rouler! See you in New Orleans.

Statement of Purpose

We are a group of museum professionals who are interested in effecting radical change in our field. We believe that it is the persistent and pervasive presence of structural racism in our institutions that is at the heart of the museum field’s failure to diversify its boards, staffs, collections, members and visitors, despite over a…

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History of Museums & Race

Coming to recognize and understand entrenched racism is a difficult and potentially contentious undertaking—but also a necessary step in challenging and transforming the institutional policies and systems that perpetuate structural racism and oppression in museums. To help advance this work, a group of 24 museum professionals came together in Chicago for a three-day convening on race…

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Frequently Asked Questions

It’s time to challenge and transform the institutional policies and systems that perpetuate structural racism and oppression in museums. Coming to understand and recognize entrenched racism is a difficult and potentially contentious undertaking—but also a necessary step.

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WE WANT YOU…

… to support our mission of challenging and transforming industry norms around issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.

Reading List

Museums and Race compiled a reading list as part of the original convening. Please review, use, and leave suggestions for resources to add.

WE ALL GET FREE (workshop)

Feeling stressed in your antiracist and social justice work? Getting resistance to ideas you’ve brought to your institutions from inspiring convenings and workshops? Grappling with the prevalence of unconscious bias in the treatment you receive or in your own thinking and responses? Join us on May 18th, 2019 in New Orleans!

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