Pop Ups: Disrupting the Idea of “Museum”

  By Gretchen Jennings and Monica Montgomery 슠At the start, many of us were슠curious슠about why the슠project슠was designed as a partnership with a슠library슠instead슠of슠another museum. 슠However, by the end of the project, we not only슠understood슠why, but also realized it슠would not슠have worked any other way. 슠 Student report. On January 16, 2016, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm, The…

Museums and Race: Language Primer# 1, on “White Privilege”

[We propose a paradigm] for how museums address their responsibility for fair and inclusive staffing, collections, and interpretation, and equality of access to their resources. This paradigm will examine a vocabulary and a set of theories not usually found in current museum discourse: Oppression: identifying the complex and too often unacknowledged ways in which systemic…