Author: The Incluseum

• July 16, 2025

  Incluseum Redesign

  Dear friends,  We are excited to share with you news of the redesigned Incluseum platform! After 13 years, we decided it was time to update the look, feel, and navigation of our homebase to better reflect our community, values, and activities. This redesign was made possible through a collaboration with 4 master’s students in Information Management…
• May 15, 2023

  Future Visioning: An Activation with The Incluseum at NCPH2023

  Last month, The National Council on Public History (NCPH) brought The Incluseum in to facilitate a participatory activation where public history practitioners applied ideas and methods from our new book Transforming Inclusion in Museums. Participants generated poems, drawings, concept maps, and manifestos that communicated their ideas about collectively building the future of the public history field, one that…
• July 21, 2022

  From Collections to Sponsorship: Notes on the Extractive Museum

  Thinking about extraction in museums more broadly – from collecting practices to our ongoing complicity in extractive wealth – helps to highlight the significant challenges that lie ahead.
• February 11, 2022

  Introducing A Frame of Mind: A new podcast takes a hard look at race in America through the lens of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

  A Frame of Mind is a new five-episode podcast that takes a hard look at race in America through the lens of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. 
• January 12, 2022

  “Part memoir, part DEAI-framework”: A new book from author and expert Cecile Shellman to be released next month, February 2022

  In this work, Shellman calls on decades of first-hand experience working throughout museums in myriad roles to present challenges facing museums, with a specific focus on the individual and systemic problems within our venerable institutions’ own walls.
• August 20, 2021

  Creating a Framework for Institutional Genealogy

  Institutional Genealogy is a critical framework for assessing an organization’s origins, ancestors and older forms.
• May 20, 2021

  Register Now for [COLLECTIVE LIBERATION] Disrupt, Dismantle, Manifest (June 2 – 4, 2021)

  #CollectiveLiberation is an opportunity for EVERYONE to shape and wholly transform the future of museums.
• April 8, 2021

  Call for Proposals: [COLLECTIVE LIBERATION] DISRUPT, DISMANTLE, MANIFEST

  The legacies of colonial and racialized violence, and white supremacy broadly, express themselves in myriad ways in contemporary museum practice. Internal and external transformation is required for shifting systems of power; interrupting the cycle of abusive museum culture; and healing from traumatic histories.
• March 8, 2021

  New project seeks to elevate the experiences of BIPOC museum staff

  This week The Incluseum is pleased to share a post about a new project that student and designer, Shuyu Fang, reached out to us about. We have been so glad to learn more about Shuyu’s vision for the project, her desire to hear directly from BIPOC museum staff about their experiences and invite BIPOC staff…
• March 1, 2021

  Unfinished. Revisiting HORSE, a Pre-COVID Project to Support Social Action in Rural Museums: Part 4

  This week, we are happy to share Zachary Stocks’ (@Museumorphosis) last piece in a 4-part series in which he presented the project he created called Heritage Organizations for Rural Social Equity (HORSE). In this post, he discusses the he last two steps of this methodology for rural museums to help create more equitable communities. Part 1 of this…