In:
Daedalus, MIT Press, Vol. 151, No. 3 ( 2022-08-22), p. 108-123
Abstract:
This essay is a brief history of the development of “grassroots” or community-based museums since the 1960s. These museums pioneered new kinds of relationships with their communities that were far different from older museums and, in the process, helped fundamentally enlarge and diversify public humanities. The essay begins with a focus on three museums founded in 1967: El Museo del Barrio in New York City, the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum (Smithsonian) in Washington, D.C., and the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle. Over the last fifty years, these museums have grown and stabilized and newer, bigger museums with similar goals have developed. These changes suggest that one future for humanities scholars is to become involved in new publics outside of the academy who are seeking humanistic analysis of their distinctive, previously marginalized, community stories.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0011-5266
,
1548-6192
DOI:
10.1162/daed_a_01932
Language:
English
Publisher:
MIT Press
Publication Date:
2022
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1648-2
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2140590-6
SSG:
25
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