Resources

MUSEUM RESOURCE LINKS

• Free Bay Area Museum Days
• Discover & Go – Providing SF Public Library card holders with free and discounted  passes to local museums and cultural institutions.
• Bay Area Museum List
• Third Thursdays in Yerba Buena Neighborhood (free & reduced admission after 5)
• Center for the Future of Museum
• The Participatory Museum – a book by Nina Simon  (download free online); great museum engagement strategies.  Also Nina’s Museum 2.0 blogspot
• Museums for All program – initiative of the Institute of Museum and Library Services
• MASS Action – Museum as a Site for Social Action
• Bay Area Museum Club – first Saturday of each month–founded by CCSF museum studies alumns.   (Website calendar is often not up to date.  If interested, ask instructors to put you on the listserv)
• Culture Type (newsletter about art by and about people of African descent, to which you can subscribe)
• Hyperallergic (newsletter about contemporary art in general, to which you can subscribe)

MUSEUM  PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• Museum Jobs 
• California Association of Museums (CAM)
• Smithsonian’s Info Page for Museum Professionals & Scholars
• American Alliance of Museums
• Museum Market – International, National, State & Regional associations
• Bay Area Emerging Museum Professionals
• Museum Hack – training, jobs, newsletter and other resources
• International Council of Museums (ICOM)

MUSEUM STUDIES DEGREE/CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS IN BAY AREA & CA

• USF – MA in Museum Studies
• SFSU – Museum Studies:  MA and Undergraduate Minor
• DeAnza College – Art History/Museum Studies Certificate
• JFK –  Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies
• Chico State University – Museum Studies Certificate
• Graduate Studies Museum Programs in CA
• California College of the Arts MA in Curatorial Practice

DECOLONIZING/INDIGENIZING MUSEUMS

Repatriation and Ethical Acquisitions

• France Agrees to Return Stolen African Artifacts; Will Other European Colonizers Follow?***
• Artwork taken from Africa, Returning to a Home Transformed
• Easter Island Governor Begs British Museum to Return Moai: “You Have Our Soul.”
• Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) Returns Eight Artifacts to Nigeria
• The Metropolitan Will Return Prized Gilded Coffin after Learning It Was Stolen
• A New Museum Opens Old Wounds in Germany
• Effigy Mounds National Monument
• Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art 2***
• Anthropology, Collecting, and Ethics at the de Young (including Jolika)
• Native People’s Bones Are Not Collectors’ Items. They Must Be Returned.     
• Money, Ethics, Art: Can Museums Police Themselves 
• When Your Money Is So Tainted Museums Don’t Want It
• Protest against Whitney Trustee with Ties to Safariland + Anti-displacement Walking Tour (see also Critique of Cultural Tourism)
• 2019 Whitney Biennial: The Museum as Site of Protest (See also Inclusive Practices)
• Better Safe than Sorry: American Museums Take Measures Mindful of Repatriation of African Art***
• What Will SFMOMA Do re Toxic Donors
• 100 Pieces of Tewa Pottery Returned to Their Ancestral Home in the Rio Grande Valley
• The  Fight to Decolonize the Museum

Authentic Interpretation

• Kathy Littles: Museums as Contested Spaces***
• The Violence of a Civilization without Secrets
• Diorama Intervention
• Chicago Art Institute Postpones Mimbres Exhibition over Cultural Insensitivity***
• Video Challenges Colonialist Narrative Reinterpreting 1st Contact in the Pacific
• Taking Native Lands and Lives

Accountability for Brutal Historical Legacies

• Systemic Racism explained
• Honor Native Land Guide***
• 50 Objects/Stories–The American Japanese Incarceration
• We Need to Talk about Colonialism, this artist says
• Decolonizing the Art Museum: The Next Wave
• Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
• The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration

Inclusive Practices

• Artists and Curators Weigh In on Baltimore Museums Move to Deaccession Works by White Men to Diversify Its Collection
• SF MOMA plans to sell a Rothko for $35 million or more to pursue diversity
• The Ethics of Deaccessioning vs. The Need to Diversify Collections
• Museum as Site for Social (MASS) Action–organization for inclusive museums
• White at the Museum with The Lucas Brothers–critique of white supremacy
• New Permanent Installation on Black Power at Oakland Museum of California
• Great Art and Culture for Everyone
• Indigenous Art on Its Own Terms***
• Black Artists Getting Their Due
• Histories of Migration in Pan-America Content/Indigenous Philosophies
• 2019 Whitney Biennial: The Museum as Site of Protest (See also Ethical Acquisitions)

Diversity of Museum Staff and Board

• Occupy Museums–organization for inclusive museums
• Cleveland Museum of Art’s Plan for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• American Alliance of Museums Leads National Diversity Initiative
• Mellon Curatorial Fellowships Promoting Diversity
• Boston Museum of Fine Arts Apology Is Another Reminder of the Museum World’s Lack of Representation
• After Kanders, Decolonization Is the Way Forward

Community Engagement

• MASS Action Chapter 6 – Christine Lashaw and Evelyn Orantez
• Acquisitions by Glenn Ligon, McArthur Binion, and Toyin Ojih Odutola are Driving Conversations Around Race and History at Mississippi Museum of Art | Culture Type

Critique of Cultural Tourism and Gentrification/Displacement

• Decolonize this Place Protest – Brooklyn Museum
• San Francisco’s Redevelopment Agency gentrifies museum district
• Protest against Whitney Trustee with Ties to Safariland + Anti-displacement Walking Tour (see also Ethical Acquisitions)
• Tackling Gentrification and Other Injustices through Landscape Painting

Accessibility

• Art Museums of SF Announce Free Saturday Admission for SF Residents
• A New Orleans Museum Is Now Mobile, Transforming How People See Art
• Can Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Louvre Video Change Perceptions of Who Belongs in Museums?
• Museums Must Attract Diverse Visitors or Risk Irrelevance
• Free Summer Admission to Major SF Museums for People on Assistance
• Rethinking the “Bigger Is Better” Museum Model
• A Unique Program Pays You to Visit Museums as a Guest Critic

ECO-MUSEUMS, STREET MUSEUMS, MUSEUMS IN UNESTABLISHED PLACES

• Definition of an Eco-Museum
• Redefining Value: Projecto Ecomuseu’
• Shell-ter Site: Housing Designs by Homeless Artists
• Saving Bansky (street art)
• The Heidelberg Project in Detroit. 
• MUSEUM AS SANCTUARY/SITE OF HEALING

• A Museum Hires a Full-time Therapist
• Comfort and Connectivity: The Museum as Healer
• Museums as Healing Places
• National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing
• Doctors Can Now Give Out Prescriptions for a Visit to the Museum
• Irish Museum of Modern Art / Art & Aging Program

RESOURCES FROM CLASS DIALOGUES AND PARTICIPANTS   

(This section will be added to…check back after each class period)

• Female Artists Representation in Museums
• Museum Pay Inequities
• A Nazi Design Show Draws Criticism. Its Curator’s Comments Do Not Help
• It’s about Time–Betye Saar’s Long Climb to the Summit
• National Museum of African American Art History and Culture – Smithsonian
• Sojourn Project
• Day of the Dead festivities 2019.
• Article: Inside the Louve’s Secret Negotiations to Mount the Biggest Leonardo da Vinci Show Ever – the museum’s 10 year quest provides a rare glimpse into the bargaining between museums over artwork loans.
• Alley Cat Books / 3036 24th St., SF – Back to Back: The Art of Juan R. Fuentes & Leon Sun, Nov 2-30.
• Slave Rebellion Reenactment.
• From NY TIMES 10.27.19 Art Takes a Stand Acknowledging the Role of Slavery 
• Public Spirit of Libraries.
• JR Mural – article by Melanie Deslien