Day 17: Monday, March 4 | Decolonizing the Museum
Discussion Co-leaders: Rose and Kalei
Readings:
- Brown, Deidre, and George Nicholas. “Protecting Indigenous Cultural Property in the Age of Digital Democracy: Institutional and Communal Responses to Canadian First Nations and Māori Heritage Concerns.” Journal of Material Culture 17, no. 3 (September 1, 2012): 307–24.
- Investigate: Mukurtu CMS
- National Park Service, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Please familiarize yourself with this law.
- Indigenous People’s Day actions, Decolonize this Place, 2017
- Abbe Museum Strategic Plan
In class:
Articles from Kalei & Rose:
- America’s Biggest Museums Fail to Return Native American Human Remains
- The Remains of Thousands of Native Americans Were Returned to Tribes This Year
Projects to explore:
- Group 1: https://museumofus.org/decolonizing-initiatives
- Group 2: https://www.nationalmuseumsni.org/global-voices-local-choices-project
- Group 3: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/field-museum-native-voices/
- Group 4: https://famok.org/
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Day 18: Wednesday, March 6 | No class!
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Day 19: Friday, March 8 | SketchUp
Due:
- Email Aisling with final project topic (more on your online exhibition here)
Bring to class:
- JPEG and PNG files of images that you want to display in a 3D rendering of the Law Warschaw Gallery on SketchUP.
- They do have some sculpture to choose from in the SketchUp 3D library. In the past we have put 2D images of sculpture in the room and you just had to assume it was 3D.
Places to find images (for the Mia and Met you have to CTRL+click = save as once you click download. It just takes you to a page with the image).
Featured Image: MuseumNext. What does it mean to decolonize a museum? Accessed January 10, 2024.
