This is a powerpoint re-edited July 2019 for use in discussion with museum practitioners about adding additional formats to their museums to foster more inclusion.
I had the honor of being a keynote speaker at the MuseumNext conference in Melbourne Australia in 2017. The paper I delivered in both on their website and uploaded and linked here.
This Book written in Australia after a conference on the same topic and after of years of research is a useful reminders about the power museums have in presenting difficult material. I wrote
In 2010 I was invited to speak at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago under the direction of Madeleine Grynsztejn. It was and remains an experimental art museum offering a diversity of
This papeer which explores the nature of community centers and suggests that this work, with or without access to objects, is part of the museum family. It was written first for a presentatio
“Turning the Ocean Liner Slowly” was about the Smithsonian Institution after I had left. I had been the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Museums and the Deputy Director for Public Program Plann
This paper was originally presented as the keynote address at a “Museums as Socially Responsible Institutions” at George Washington University in October 1988. It was subsequently delivered i
I was invited by Alison Edwards and Laurence Sullivan to be part of a conference at the Harvard Divinity School in 2002. Out of that conference came the important volume “Stewards of the
