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Spain’s Move to Decolonize Its Museums Must Continue

Sapiens

In early 2024, Spain’s culture minister announced that the nation would overhaul its state museum collections, igniting a wave of anticipation—and controversy. As a multicultural Spaniard with extensive experience in the museum sector, I see the initiative as part of a long-overdue and much-needed reckoning with Spain’s colonial past.

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For My Daughters, For My Students: Valencia Abbott’s All-In

NCHE

In the last twelve years, Valencia has led community service projects with one of her local museums. It’s their responsibility to create the life that they want, and it’s an honor to be a part of helping my students figure out the life that they want. I want them to be good citizens of the world.”

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A Call for Respect: Rethinking How Museums Care for Animal Remains

Anthropology.net

.” Ward, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, has spent years working in museums, but this experience reinforced what he and many Indigenous scholars have long known—many institutions need to rethink how they handle animal remains. “We need to reframe the way we think about museums.

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Home-Carrying—A Repatriation Trip to Vanuatu 100 Years in the Making

Sapiens

This marked the beginning of an 11-day trip to return the remains of a man whose skull had been taken almost 100 years ago and sold for display in a museum at my university. Even now, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History alone has amassed the remains of more than 33,000 individuals. While the U.S.

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The Case of Hostile Terrain ’94 at the University of Oregon 

Anthropology News

At the University of Oregon, we built a collaborative team of faculty and museum staff to bring students, campus, and community stakeholders together in planning and implementing an exhibition of an installation of the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) Hostile Terrain 94 exhibition.

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NCHE Partners with the Library of Congress

NCHE

Eligible applicants can include educational institutions, cultural organizations, historical societies or museums, community or civic groups, libraries, and literacy organizations. These regional grants will help fund projects that expand and explore innovative methods of teaching and learning with Library of Congress materials.

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As science denial grows, science museums fight back by teaching scientific literacy

The Hechinger Report

She credits a training program through the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan for preparing her to do so. Museums have largely escaped the culture wars roiling many school districts and are still seen as trusted institutions. government, according to data from the American Alliance of Museums.

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