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What does it mean to decolonize a museum?

By Elisa Shoenberger / illustration “Museum without Ceiling” Roger Brown (1976)

In the past few years, museums across the US, Europe, and Australia are trying to tackle the challenge of decolonizing their institutions. However, the very meaning of decolonizing is being debated. The Washington Post defines it as “a process that institutions undergo to expand the perspectives they portray beyond those of the dominant cultural group, particularly white colonizers.” Whereas, the Abbe Museum in Maine take a stronger approach by incorporating it into their Strategic plan and defining it as “at a minimum, sharing authority for the documentation and interpretation of Native culture.”

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Major Sumner Ngarrindjeri Dance - Everything Is Connected

Winner Melbourne International WebFest 2016 Best Australian Non-Fiction web series. Now screening as part of the Official Selection International WebFest Melbourne 2016. Our web series is also screening on ABC iView's arts channel from July 2016 onwards. Together with our community partners, the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority and the Ngarirndjeri Land and Progress Association, we delivered 4 multi-arts community engagement and capacity-building workshops to transmit Ngarrindjeri culture to young leaders and simultaneously created three new digital media works. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

©2016 Change Media and Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association Inc

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Artwork by Deb Bishop / The picture advertised a slave auction at the St. Louis Hotel in New Orleans on March 25, 1858. Eighteen people were for sale, including a family of six whose youngest child was 1. The artifact is part of the collection of The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Its curator of American Slavery, Mary Elliott, cowrote the history of slavery below — told primarily through objects in the museum's collection.