Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2022.2104815
N. Morse
ABSTRACT This intervention reflects on examples of UK museum and gallery outreach and engagement activity that took place during the COVID-19 lockdown. This included creative packs sent to people who were shielding, online sessions for mental health service users, and phone services for isolated older adults, part of a range of efforts to continue connections while buildings were closed. Though seemingly limited in scale or impact, I argue that it is in these small acts of care that we might find the renewed relevance of the museum. Drawing on theoretical work on repair (notably Steven J. Jackson), the essay outlines a future social role of museums founded on “care thinking” and oriented towards the communal work of repair.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2022.2064983
Cassandra Kist
ABSTRACT Despite the widely recognized importance in the museum sector of cultivating safe, welcoming spaces for projects that work towards social change, few studies consider how feelings of safety can be cultivated online. To provide insight for future museum practices, this study focuses on a series of collaborative sessions facilitated by a museum outreach institution and a social enterprise to provide online engagement activities for older adults during COVID-19. Employing a social media ethnography, this study reveals how staff can create feelings of safety online through repair processes that work around, with, and against the unethical and contradictory bounds of online infrastructures.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2021.2151728
C. Sterling, J. Larkin
As Édouard Glissant never ceased to reiterate, each of us needs the memory of the other. This is not a matter of charity or compassion. It is a condition for the survival of our world. If we want to share the world’s beauty, he would add, we ought to learn to be united with all its suffering. We will have to learn to remember together, and in this doing, to repair together the world’s fabric and its visage. (Achille Mbembe in Bangstad, 2019)
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2022.2142377
Cintia Velázquez-Marroni
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2022.2105494
Paul Piwko, Alexandra Orlandi, Renee Folzenlogen, Peter Szto, Christina Yocca, Rachel Terrill, P. Yanos
ABSTRACT Museums are discovering their role relative to health literacy. The growing number of mental health exhibitions may preface a “golden age” of museums advancing mental health by addressing stigma and fostering education with credibility, resources, and infrastructure. This paper provides a typology of mental health exhibitions and examines visitor responses to Mental Health: Mind Matters, adapted for North America by the Science Museum of Minnesota. Our research examined Mind Matters while on display at Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, Colorado, during 2020-2021. Data regarding visitor-level impacts were collected using index card responses to an open-ended prompt and via survey, and were analyzed using a hierarchical open coding strategy. Our research identifies how mental health exhibitions can impact sense of community/isolation among people with existing mental health conditions; understanding and empathy among other visitors; and, openness to help-seeking. Findings suggest museums can help reframe and repair what is possible with mental health.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2022.2082669
Ren Ewart
ABSTRACT This short provocation considers the entangling potential of visible needlework mending, using Tacita Dean’s 2007 film Darmstädter Werkblock to question how paying attention to sites of repair can highlight ongoing, often unnoticed, forms of maintenance within an institution. During the film Darmstädter Werkblock, Dean pays homage to the markers of age in the original textile paneling of Block Beuys, giving attention to the frayed, faded and restored areas of the walls. In contrast to the large-scale refurbishment chosen by the gallery, the earlier needlework repair presented by Dean reflects a slower, more ongoing form of maintenance.
这个简短的挑衅考虑了可见针线活修补的纠缠潜力，使用Tacita Dean 2007年的电影Darmstädter Werkblock来质疑关注修复地点如何突出机构内正在进行的，通常不被注意的维护形式。在电影Darmstädter Werkblock中，Dean向Block Beuys的原始纺织品镶板中的年代标记致敬，并关注墙壁的磨损，褪色和修复区域。与画廊选择的大规模翻新相比，迪恩提出的早期针线活修复反映了一种更缓慢，更持续的维护形式。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2022.2097397
Amanda Furiasse
ABSTRACT Questions about museums’ responsibilities to return looted African religious artifacts in their collections continue to create a number of challenges for US museums. This article assesses these challenges from the perspective of the Brooklyn Museum and the Fowler Museum at UCLA. While pioneering two different strategies, they both reimagine the restitution process as one where source communities and museum professionals work collaboratively together to cultivate relationships around the religious cosmologies of Africana religions and provide important case studies into the processes by which museums might move toward “propatriation”, a process that involves commissioning new artistic creations and repairing relationships. Ultimately, the Brooklyn Museum and the Fowler Museum demonstrate how the religious contexts of African ritual objects can serve as important catalysts for the transformation of museums into ritualized healing spaces where the remaking of relationships is made possible as is the recognition of museums’ participation in colonial violence and theft.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2022.2057413
N. Étienne
ABSTRACT Recently, museums have been under growing scrutiny. The public debate has focused mainly on two things: The way cultures and objects are presented and displayed in museum galleries and the questions of restitution. However, 80–99% of a museum's collection is and will probably remain in storage. This paper changes the focus from exhibition or restitution to conservation, understood as a set of practices preserving and giving access to art and material culture. More precisely, I study preventative conservation and collection management as political actions. Building upon the unvaluable work carried by conservators in the US and beyond, but also including other voices and alternative gestures, I aim to start a conversation about what conservation could be in a postcolonial museum.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2022.2074639
Suse Anderson
ABSTRACT Museums are often imagined as “safe spaces for unsafe ideas,” yet such a conception ignores the real harms that museums can cause to individuals, communities, and publics. While, as a sector, we are skilled at calculating risks to the collection or institution, potential risks to publics, including staff, are rarely considered with the same rigor. It is still too rare that the question, “who might this harm?” is asked. However, the compounding crises of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the growing acknowledgment of systemic racism and oppression, create an opportunity for museums to change their practices related to risk and harm. This, therefore, becomes a critical moment to ask what it might mean to create institutions that feel safe and are safe, particularly for those have been - and continue to be - harmed. This short provocation will argue for a reframing of the relationship between risk, harm, and museums.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2022.2143760
Quoc-Tan Tran
ABSTRACT The virtuality and materiality of the digital have created new opportunities for museums to facilitate modes of collaboration and participation centered on marginal actors who were previously ignored or uninvolved in the construction of the social worlds they inhabit. This article examines the limits and fragility of one such mode of participation: museum documentation work. Drawing on staff interviews at the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin, the article investigates how the daily practices of museum staff shape work-related arrangements that support institutional memory-making. In focusing on the infrastructure qualities hidden away in the museum's back-stage operations, the article reveals the political stakes of repair and directs attention to the relationality of workplace order. The article contends that, while documentation is the backbone of the museum's informational fabric, it is frequently done and figured out by implicated actors, and performed within the entangled back-stage setting of museum work.
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