Museums and Method Trade 14 May 2021 This is a term that recurs across museum exhibits describing historical relationships of economics, exchange and acquisition. However, the use of the term in museums to signal the commercial and…
Museums and Method… Sacred/secret/sensitive 6 Jan 2021 These terms are increasingly being used by institutions to describe items in collections which hold particular resonance for source and descendant communities by virtue of their spiritual significance and/or importance…
Museums and Method Neutrality 17 Sep 20193 Mar 2021 This is often invoked as a way of positioning museums as neutral storehouses of knowledge, that sit outside of cultural, social, political and economic debates. However, culture does not exist…
Museums and Method… Lived experience 11 Sep 2019 Curators, cataloguers and content developers in museums rely heavily on outside expertise to inform how they present exhibitions and interpret collections. Historically, the promotion of Eurocentric forms of knowledge and…
critical race theory… Indigenous peoples 29 Aug 2019 According to the UN, Indigenous peoples are the ‘inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of relating to people and the environment’ and are distinguished from later settled populations…
critical race theory… Fragility 22 Aug 2019 Referring to the defensive stance adopted by some when confronted with perspectives that challenge inherent assumptions, the term is usually used in conjunction with the word ‘white’.* When discussed in…
Museums and Method Explore 21 Aug 2019 Much like discover, the word explore is often used in museums to describe the intrepid adventurers that travelled to the ends of the earth in the name of science and…
Museums and Method Exchange 7 Aug 2019 This term is sometimes used to denote the meeting of peoples, ideas and cultures that necessarily accompanied the colonial project. The word “exchange” implies balance, equity and is defined as…
Museums and Method Erasure 17 Jul 2019 Used to reference the fact that through colonial violence (cultural as well as physical), assimilation policies and mainstream misattribution, cultures are removed from the record. When thinking about how this…
Museums and Method Discovery 1 Jul 2019 The language of ‘discovery’ tends to be framed within the assumption that Europeans who claimed new territories in the name of the motherland can be credited with the founding of…
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