Tag Archives: Professional Development
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 […]
“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.
#MassActionReadingGroup: First Tweetchat
On Monday 04/29 we had our first #MassActionReadingGroup Tweetchat that focused on chapter 1 and worksheet 1 of the Mass Action Toolkit. We had about 30 active participants and had a lively discussion! Rose from The Incluseum was the host and asked the following 5 questions: This chapter touches on the lineage of the Modern Museum. […]
Museopunks Action Recap
By nikhil trivedi *** In the September 2017 episode of Museopunks, we began talking about specific actions men can take to dismantle gender oppression and create more supportive institutions for people of all genders. To finish the thoughts I began on the show, below are four actions we as men—as people who benefit from male […]
FWD: Museums Journal | The Latest and Upcoming Issues
Have you had a chance to read Issue 1 or 2 of the Fwd: Museums Journal? In their own words, here is their mission: Recognizing the need to critically transform museums, Fwd: Museums strives to create a space for challenging, critiquing, and imagining alternative modes of thinking and production within and outside of museums. This journal […]
Museum Hue at AAM
Are you going to the American Alliance of Museums’ (AAM) annual meeting in a couple weeks? Below is a list of events you won’t want to miss! All of them are coordinated by or are organized in partnership with our friends at Museum Hue, an organization that “advances the viability and visibility of people of color using […]
Diversity Committee (DivCom) Events at AAM 2016
The 2016 American Alliance of Museum conference is quickly approaching! This year, the conference will be held Thursday May 26 through Sunday May 29 in Washington D.C. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be promoting different events and gatherings that are on our radar. Today, we are excited to share a series of events we have been coordinating through […]
Gender Equity and Museums
Since the Andrew W. Mellon Report came out we have been ruminating on what the findings indicate about inclusion in museums. We also wrote a recent piece which explored some of the current issues related to museum employment and labor. The Mellon report showed that museum staff have become 60% female over the last decade […]
Happy New Year! | Looking Back, Moving Forward
This year has been full of great collaborations, exciting changes and new opportunities for the Incluseum! As the year ends and we prepare to move forward, we are grateful for the time to reflect on the many projects we have been part of in 2015. Here are several highlights from our year related to the Incluseum […]
The Incluseum’s New Metadata Schema: A Controlled Vocabulary for Tagging
Over the last three years of our work with the Incluseum, we’ve thought, written, and talked extensively of the power of words. For example, our first digital exhibition, The Power of Labeling, used the power of words as its premise. Working through the medium of the blog, however, we became dissatisfied with our ad-hoc and fractured […]
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