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Institutional Change for Museums

A Practical Guide to Creating Polyvocal Spaces

Marianna Pegno editor Kantara Souffrant editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:14th Aug '24

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Institutional Change for Museums: A Practical Guide to Creating Polyvocal Spaces demonstrates how museums can enact institutional change by implementing systematic and structural approaches to anti-racist, anti-colonial, and anti-elitist practices.

This practical guide brings together museum and heritage experts, artists, organizers, and cultural workers to present thoughtful, polyvocal critiques and solutions for conceptualizing museums of the future. These authors embrace hybrid identities, complicate concepts of nationalism, straddle disciplines, and extend the concept, function, and literal place and definition of the “museum.” The book shows that museums must cultivate practices that center people, interrogate colonial legacies, take new approaches to curatorial ethics and caring for objects, and imagine new strategies for asserting the relevance of museums, to create institutional change. This resource challenges traditional approaches to museology by offering scholarly research and case studies alongside personal narratives and speculative fiction.

Institutional Change for Museums will be an invaluable resource for museum professionals and cultural workers, including curators, educators, and researchers. It will also be beneficial to those studying or researching in Museum and Heritage Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Visual Culture, Social Justice, and Postcolonial Studies.

“A remarkable compendium of insight into the relevance of museums as cultural institutions in the resistance to, and against, concentrated control over public imagination and life. This much-needed collection of case studies demonstrates the power of inter-connecting global narratives of polyvocal engagement.” ~ Manisha Sharma, PhD, The University of North Texas

“The constellation of views in this volume, echoes the professionals in the museum field whose voices demand to be heard and scholarship deserves to be acknowledged. Chapters are a testimony to inclusion as we seek to unlearn outdated, harmful ways of working and relearn practical ideas for reimagining systems"~ Monica O. Montgomery MA, Professor, Consultant, Curator, Co-Founder of Museum Hue

ISBN: 9781032430034

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 317g

158 pages