Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion

Poster

P11 - Healing Wounds: Inclusion and State History Museum Exhibits

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Based on a case study, this poster session will cover how state history museums and their exhibit and curatorial staff are thinking about diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion (DEAI) in their work today. Discussion will include the strategies that staff can use to make exhibits more inclusive and the challenges that emerge in the process.

Learning Objectives:

• List the strategies that state history museums are using to make their exhibitions more inclusive.
• Describe how state history museums and their exhibition and curatorial staff are thinking about inclusion in their work.
• Recount the challenges that exhibition and curatorial staff at state history museums face when integrating inclusivity into exhibitions.

Poster Presenter(s)

• EC

  Elaine Carter

  Graduate Student
  University of Washington