FROM EXPLORATION TO EQUITY: A MUSEUM’S JOURNEY TOWARD DECOLONIZATION
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2018-12
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M.A. in Arts Administration
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In the context of a societal shift calling upon institutions to be more equitable, the
movement to decolonize museums requires new approaches to collecting and
presenting human remains and cultural artifacts. Nearly thirty years after the passage of
the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the San Diego Museum of
Man is radically modifying its relationship with indigenous communities of the Kumeyaay
Nation, on whose homeland the museum is situated and whose ancestors and
belongings were once held by the museum without permission. The museum’s bold new
policies and programming focus offer a complex, but necessary, model for the field.