Sunday, April 16

1:00 - 2:30 PM                                 

90-MINUTE SESSION

Theme Dynamics: engagement with inconvenient truths in museum exhibitions

Nicholas West

Co-director, University Museums

Colgate University

Susanna White

Head of Collections

Colgate University Museums

Rebecca Mendelsohn

Co-director/Curator

Longyear Museum of Anthropology

Kali Steinberg

Curatorial Assistant

Picker Art Gallery

This session examines recent exhibitions at the University Museums at Colgate as a starting point for open discussion about how other institutions do or could use collaboration around a theme to facilitate the exhibition of inconvenient truths. Conversation may revolve around the challenges institutions may face in implementing such strategies due to a lack of diversity on staff, resistance from boards or leadership, and the demographic makeup of their audiences. The session will provide museum professionals–particularly those from small and medium-sized organizations–with a venue for sharing how museums might develop new strategies for increasing engagement with inconvenient truths in exhibitions.

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