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Hello Everyone, Casie Blovsky from the Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, Michigan.

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Hello from Istanbul, this is Aslihan, indıstrial designer working for museum exhibitions independently.

Hi. Jeanine Miller from The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

Hello!. I'm César García, from Guatemala. Today its a great day to be here, since its our national day to remember the victims of the armed conflicto we lived between 1960 and 1996.

Hi everyone. I'm Laura Cohen from the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College in New York City.

Hello - Michael Rose at Atlanta History Center. Great to see everyone.

Hey, I’m Chris from Richmond, Va., and the American Civil War Museum.

Hello -- Gordon Jones from Atlanta History Center. It looks like I'm at the beach ..

Hello, I am Kaylee Holt with Missouri State Parks.

Hi Everyone! I'm Ashley Stevens one of the Exhibition Development Research Officers from the City of Ottawa Museums, in Ottawa, Ontario Canada

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Mining the Museum 1992

Fred Wilson is presenting an online lecture at the Radcliffe Institute next Tuesday evening:

https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2021-fred-wilson-lecture-virtual

sorry linda, where is this rock from?

thank you!

This piece of granite was vandalized from the monument then located in the center of Plymouth, MA. Many pieces of this rock wee removed in the 19th century. The remainder was moved to its new site on the shoreline in 1880.

Approach: Multi-voiced views of the myth of this rock over time and how we view the immigrant experience differently.

The stories sounding Plymouth Rock and its place in the founding of America comes with a lot of myths attached.

Despite the painted label from 1830, this piece of rock was actually quarried from a site 100 miles away. Such "fakes" tell us how valued the actual site was to many people... etc. (I'm imagining this)

I’m thinking along the lines of a 100-word story from the perspective of the rock that begins, “I didn’t mean much until Lewis Bradford chipped me off of mom and slapped this label on…”

Discuss the naming of Plymouth reflecting their departure point in the UK - desire of Pilgrims for the familiar?

Early tourism sometimes included destructive practices of bringing home a souvenir of you visit. Often breaking apart historic objects or destroying sensitive ecosystems…

It is quite powerful

The museum where I work shows the story of men and sea and for centuries this story has been a male story, without any connection with female story. It starts talking about men and women only talking about migration in 1900..

I think every new group of visitors as an opportunity to revamping our exhibition, since almost every group could bring a new point of view (Luckily our starting point is human diversity)

For example, we address the issue of racism, and until the last year, I never had the opportunity to talk about racism and sports with a group of athletes.

If you know that there are gaps in your permanent exhibition, should you mention this? For example, if there are no artworks by women or people of color on view.

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Yes -- transparency

It might be a way to engage your audience? Bring it to light and ask for input. Opportunity for dialogic intepretation

Perhaps to be in context and state what you are doing to address this gap?

Yes. I like the idea of creating blank spaces on walls and in vitrines that intentionally draw attention to the gaps.

I think mentioning gaps shows acknowledgment, space to grow, and could create future opportunities. (Growing collections, diversifying collections, programing etc.)

It's an opportunity to encourage donations to fill the gap.

We have mentioned that. And we try to get more stories to add to our collection.

Mining the Museum explicitly labeled gaps by lining up three empty pedestals of perhaps Douglass, Banneker, and a third adjacent to busts of three white Marylanders

Thanks you, Linda. Great session.

Thank you so much for this!

Thank you Linda :)

Thank you Linda!

Thank you!

Thanks so much everyone! Stay safe and be well.

Thanks!