Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums

Daniela Fifi

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040364192
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Library & Information Science

Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums examines the challenges faced within the field of Caribbean Museology. Museums are sites of heritage management and, within Caribbean contexts, essential spaces for the examination of postcolonial relationships to past disenfranchisement.

This book helps to identify strategies within museology that can inspire meaningful collective engagement with these histories. In the process, it also identifies the hurdles museums in the Caribbean face when telling stories of ancestral oppression. Each chapter presents a new case study, written by five museum professionals and scholars fundamentally shaping conversations on cultural heritage spaces within the Caribbean and the diaspora of Caribbean nations. Using their observations this book coalesces an understanding of the specific limitations Caribbean cultural heritage spaces face and deploys new strategies for maximising their engagement potential.

Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums is written for Museum Studies researchers and museum practitioners, especially those actively engaged in the process of preserving Caribbean cultural heritage, advancing museum development in the Caribbean or in other nations for future generations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Section I Critical Issues in the Representation of Racial and Cultural Identities in Caribbean Museums and Global Collections
• Section II Critical Issues in the Repatriation of Caribbean Cultural Heritage in Caribbean Museums and Global Collections
• Section III Critical Issues of Caribbean Museum Management
• Index