It’s Not Just for the Children: On Engaging Culturally Diverse Families at Museums
The authors study how the museum field has historically prioritized Anglo families in research, exhibit design and programming.
Read MoreVirtual Issues are a deep dive into the Curator archives about a single theme, synthesizing articles from the past for today’s urgent museum topics. Every article referenced by the Virtual Issues will be open access for all readers for a limited time.
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The authors study how the museum field has historically prioritized Anglo families in research, exhibit design and programming.
Read MoreNick Martinez surveys the history of the relationship between museums and communities of color in the United States, particularly those identifying as Black and African American.
Read MoreThe authors compare the prevalence of LGBTQIA identities in the general public and the museum workforce with the lack of funding for exhibitions and programming around LGBTQIA topics.
Read MoreAlice Anderson and Michelle Mileham’s Virtual Issue examines how museums have embraced people with different identities (or not) in the last few decades.
Read MoreCataloging an evolving definition for museums and what that could mean for the future of ICOM’s new definition.
Read MoreThe museum field has addressed illness, disability, death, and overall health with a variety of techniques.
Read MoreWhether museums want it to be or not, their audiences are composed of diverse social categories that must be embraced and represented.
Read MoreIn July 2019, Curator: The Museum Journal published a special issue called Sonic. As part of that issue, we explored our archives and uncovered seven papers where sound experience in museums was a central subject of scholarly study. These papers were made open access from July 1st, 2019 – December 31st, 2019.
Read MoreI saw the first major survey of Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s work at an exhibition organized by the Hirshhorn in Washington D.C., at the end of 2016. The talk of the exhibition was Woman in E (2016), featuring a succession of live performers rotating through a perpetual strumming of that single note on an electric guitar.
Read MoreAs a museum educator who has spent two decades thinking about object-based education, I found the shift to children’s museums challenging. Where are the objects? Why is this a museum? What allows us to claim special educational status for these charming play spaces? To find answers, I turned to the literature. This virtual issue contains findings of my search: nine articles, selected from the Curator archives, on the topic of children’s museums.
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