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Inclusion
The museum will not be decolonised
Sumaya Kassim worked with a group of co-curators to set up an exhibition at the Birmingham Museum of Art Gallery to help decolonize the history of Birmingham. “Decolonising is deeper …
How a Wave of Honest History Museums Is Changing Black Tourism
Ashton Lattimore shares insights on being a black patron of historic houses and sites and the changes occurring in the field. Through years of tours of historic colonial sites, …
Seven Tips for Starting an Equitable and Inclusive Internship Program
Ayanna Reed is the Director of Human Resources at the Oakland Museum of California. One summer during my college years I interned for the Port of Oakland, one of largest shipping ports in …
Access and Inclusion Case Study: Connecting Students to the Museum Field
In a session at the 2017 AAM Annual Meeting in St. Louis, a look around the room revealed a small sea of mostly mid-career museum professionals with experience and interest in education and …
The Portal: A Real-Time Conversation with People Forced to Flee Violence
In TrendsWatch 2017 I highlight Shared Studio’s Portals in the chapter on Empathy. These bi-directional video walls host virtual “face-to-face” conversations between people around the …
Converting Family into Fans: How the Contemporary Jewish Museum expanded its reach to a new audience.
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2017 issue of Museum magazine. Since its founding in 1984, the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) had been in a 2,500-square-foot space in …
Mapping Visitor Emotions to Make a Lasting Connection
Readers of the CFM Blog are also prime consumers of TrendsWatch, the Alliance’s annual forecasting report, which is available as a digital download and as a dynamic web version with …
Wordless Wednesday: Checking out Empathy
#Empathy @TheHumanLibrary #TrendsWatch 2017 Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links) on CFM’s Pinter…
Taking the Bias Out of Hiring: Identifying and eliminating unconscious bias in recruitment processes.
This article originally appeared in January/February 2017 issue of Museum magazine. I’m a fan of leading by doing. Which is to say, when I suggest to museums (as I do in every section of …
Access and Equity in Museum Internships: A Case Study
In the US in 2015, 17.5 percent of persons with a disability were employed–compared to a 65 percent employment rate for people without a disability: a troubling statistic that should …
Painting in Blue
I became interested in Amy Herman’s work for several reasons. She harnesses the power of art to teach empathy, helping people in positions of power—be it medicine or law enforcement—relate …
Thinking About Inclusive Museums in the UK
Hi, Nicole here! As part of my work as a Mellon/ACLS fellow with CFM, I’m focusing on a constellation of issues related to museums and labor, including pathways to museum employment; wage …