CoMuseum 2023 | Micah Parzen: Justice from Within: Starting with the Museum in the Mirror

CoMuseum 2023 | Museums and Justice

Justice from Within: Starting with the Museum in the Mirror

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Micah Parzen, CEO, Museum of Us (U.S.A.)

The murder of George Floyd helped catalyze a social justice turn among many museums in the United States. While an increasing number of institutions began “talking the talk,” however, few committed to truly “walking the talk” in action-oriented ways. The result is that many such efforts fall short as highly performative, thus perpetuating the very harm they purport to address. With an eye toward avoiding these pitfalls, this keynote will explore the importance of starting with the museum in the mirror and asking it to change its internal ways first, before trying to make the outside world a better place.

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