The Incluseum
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The Incluseum advances new ways of being a museum through dialogue, community building, and collaborative practice related to inclusion in museums. Check out our blog to keep up with long-term projects, speaking engagements, workshops, and more.
The Incluseum
1y ago
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 ..read more
The Incluseum
1y ago
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 ..read more
The Incluseum
2y ago
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.  ..read more
The Incluseum
2y ago
Incluseum Co-Directors Rose, Porchia, and Aletheia have been fortunate enough to work with Cecile, a long-time supporter of The Incluseum‘s work, on a variety of projects over the last decade. We could not be more thrilled for the release of her new book Effective Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism Practices for Museums: From the ..read more
The Incluseum
2y ago
[Institutional Genalogy] is a framework to help you translate lessons from your past into wisdom you can use to ground your efforts to the inequity and exclusion that persists in your organization head-on ..read more
The Incluseum
3y ago
Registration is now open for [Collective Liberation]: Disrupt, Dismantle, Manifest! #CollectiveLiberation is an opportunity for EVERYONE to shape and wholly transform the future of museums We are very excited for our lineup this year. By registering for the convening, you will have access to all of the sessions. Attendees will receive an email with session links ..read more
The Incluseum
3y ago
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. Yet, despite decades of advocacy, we keep repeating the same patterns. Why ..read more
The Incluseum
3y ago
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 ..read more
The Incluseum
3y ago
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 ..read more
The Incluseum
3y ago
This week, Zachary Stocks (@Museumorphosis) continues to share with us a project he created called Heritage Organizations for Rural Social Equity (HORSE). This is the third part of a 4-part series. In this post, he present the first two steps of the four-part methodology for rural museums to help create more equitable communities. Part 1 of this ..read more