Transforming Inclusion in Museums

The Power of Collaborative Inquiry

Porchia Moore, Rose Paquet, Aletheia Wittman

• Publisher: American Alliance Of Museums
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781538161913
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Museum Administration
• Index: Business

"Inclusion" is a word, a concept, a value, a set of practices, but what should it mean for museum staff and leaders as they envision new ways of being a museum in an emergent future? Political and environmental upheavals, and now a global pandemic, are transforming the museum landscape forever. How can our paradigm for understanding inclusion continue to transform as well? This book offers a new paradigm for understanding inclusion grounded in a retrospective of museum worker efforts to test the limits of inclusion, a reflection on inclusion's advantages and limitations in practice, as well as the integral concerns of racial equity and social justice. Questions throughout the book invite readers to reflect on how their own experiences can add to, and expand on, new ways of thinking about inclusion in museums. Museum workers and lovers can use this book as a tool for engaging with "inclusion" anew, and as a terrain for collaborative inquiry and world-building that can help us imagine and realize new potential for museums in the future.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 What Is Inclusion? A Genealogy of Inclusion in US Museums
• 2 On the Limits of Inclusion
• 3 Opening Up to Transformation
• 4 Implications for the Field
• 5 Future Visioning
• Appendix
• About the Authors