{"id":399,"date":"2017-09-25T16:23:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T20:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ccph\/?page_id=399"},"modified":"2017-09-25T16:28:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T20:28:43","slug":"thinking-through-the-museum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ccph\/projects-and-activities\/thinking-through-the-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking through the Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Overview<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>While the advent of \u201cnew museology\u201d has seen a shift from imagining museum visitors as\u00a0uninformed, passive consumers of didactic exhibits to agents\u00a0involved in content and\u00a0meaning making, a gap remains between participatory ideals and\u00a0their\u00a0<acronym class=\"c2c-text-hover\" title=\"\" data-hasqtip=\"0\">practice in contemporary museums<\/acronym>\u00a0\u2014 especially when it\u00a0comes to difficult knowledge. The overall goal of our project is to position ourselves within this gap,\u00a0creating concrete networks and resources to collectively respond to the challenges inherent in\u00a0confronting traumatic histories and legacies of violence.<\/p>\n<p>We are working to build research capacity by fostering our new academic partnership, finding\u00a0potential future partners, and testing and developing research activities and transferrable tools\u00a0that partners, collaborators, and participants can use to generate\u00a0ideas to engage with difficult knowledge in museums. These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an online web-based portal for communications and knowledge mobilization<\/li>\n<li>prototype technologies and shareable tools, materials, and applications for public\u00a0engagement with museums<\/li>\n<li>adaptable models for three-way academic-museum-community collaborations<\/li>\n<li>curriculum development strategies that can be mobilized in educational contexts\u00a0including museums, galleries, community learning centres, schools, and universities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Context<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The opening of the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg serves as a\u00a0catalyst and pilot site for our project.\u00a0Considering how \u201cdifficult knowledge\u201d might be addressed within a human rights museum opens a critical\u00a0conversation that both the museum and the public deserve if we are to expand our understanding of how\u00a0museums and galleries can contribute to the vitality of civic life in Canada. \u201c<acronym class=\"c2c-text-hover\" title=\"\" data-hasqtip=\"0\">Difficult knowledge<\/acronym>\u201d describes crises in learning that result from\u00a0encounters with representations of traumatic histories and ongoing legacies of violence and conflict.\u00a0We are particularly\u00a0interested in how the rise in consciousness of key episodes of difficult history in Canada \u2014 such as the\u00a0colonial legacy of Indian Residential Schools \u2014 is shaping the expectations and practices of Canada\u2019s\u00a0national museums.<\/p>\n<p>This project considers difficult knowledge in public spaces that represent history such as museums,\u00a0memorial sites, and cultural heritage tours. We observe that opportunities to\u00a0learn from difficult knowledge are limited when institutions like museums are under pressure to\u00a0produce \u201cpositive visitor experiences\u201d or narratives of national or community pride, reinforcing \u201clovely\u00a0knowledge\u201d with its blind spots and omissions. What curatorial and pedagogical\u00a0practices might be fostered in these spaces to allow people to grapple with difficult knowledge in\u00a0generative ways? What opportunities for learning open up when they do? What risks do we anticipate?\u00a0Our project brings together scholars, curators, museum practitioners, and diverse publics to collaborate\u00a0on best approaches to these questions. Our aim is to acknowledge multiple and disparate voices given\u00a0that in diverse societies individuals and groups are situated differently and unevenly in relation to\u00a0difficult knowledge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Learn more <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkingthroughthemuseum.org\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview While the advent of \u201cnew museology\u201d has seen a shift from imagining museum visitors as\u00a0uninformed, passive consumers of didactic exhibits to agents\u00a0involved in content and\u00a0meaning making, a gap remains between participatory ideals and\u00a0their\u00a0practice in contemporary museums\u00a0\u2014 especially when it\u00a0comes to difficult knowledge. 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