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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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…

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…

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.