July 2016 OHMuseumChat - Museums and Social Responsibility

The Ohio Museums Association (@OhioMuseums)  and our partner The Lake County Historical Society (@LakeSociety) held our July ‪#‎OHMuseumChat - Thursday, July 21 on Twitter. Thank you to all the individuals and organizations that participated in this conversation!

For June's topic, we discussed Museums and Social Responsibility.

Many thanks to our special guest panelists, Aleia Brown, visiting scholar at Michigan State University and co-founder of #MuseumsRespondtoFerguson and #BlkTwitterstorians – @aleiabrown; Dr. Marvin Carr from the Institute of Museum and Library Services‘ Community Catalyst Initiative – @DrMarvinCarr; and members of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center team – @FreedomCenter! Have questions for our panelists you didn't have a chance to ask during the chat? Be sure to reach out to them via twitter with #‎OHMuseumChat!

Weren't able to make it to this month's chat, but want to stay in the loop on the great conversation with other museum professionals? We've got you covered! You can find a summary from July's #‎OHMuseumChat here.

There were some resources referenced during this month's chat. Those and more are listed below:

• American Association for State and Local History
  • Articles from AASLH on the topic of social and civic responsibility:
    http://search.aaslh.org/search?q=social+responsibility&page=1#
• Art Museum Teaching
  • Article, “The Urgency of Empathy & Social Impact in Museums,” 2016. By Mike Murawski.
    https://artmuseumteaching.com/2016/07/11/the-urgency-of-empathy-social-impact-in-museums/
• Cabinet of Curiosities
  • #MuseumsRespondtoFerguson Archives and other blog articles by Adrianne Russell.
    https://adriannerussell.wordpress.com/museumsrespondtofergusonarchive/
• Center for the Future of Museums
  • Blog posts from the Center for the Future of Museums on  the topic of social justice:
    http://futureofmuseums.blogspot.com/search/label/social%20justice
  • Blog post, “Museums in a Dangerous Time,” 2014. By Robert Janes.
    http://futureofmuseums.blogspot.com/2014/06/museums-in-dangerous-time.html
• The Incluseum
  • Website for the Incluseum project that advances new ways of being a museum through critical discourse.
    https://incluseum.com/about/
• Institute of Museum and Library Services
  • Resources from IMLS on Social Responsibility
    https://www.imls.gov/site/search/social%20responsibility
  • IMLS’ Community Catalyst Initiative
    https://www.imls.gov/news-events/news-releases/imls-launches-community-catalyst-initiative
• International Council Of Museums
  • In Focus Magazine article, “The Challenge of Coexistence,” 2011. By Annette Fromm.
  • In Focus Magazine article, “Museums and Social Responsibility,” 2011. By David Fleming.
    http://icom.museum/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/ICOM_News/2011-1/ENG/p8-9_2011-1a.pdf
  • ICOM’s INTERCOM: International Committee on Management
    • Papers from the 2010 INTERCOM Conference, “Museums for Social Harmony”
      “Changing roles of museums – social responsibility and creative museum management
      http://www.intercom.museum/shanghai2010.html
    • INTERCOM Conference Paper, “Measuring the impact of museums on their communities: The role of the 21st century museum,” 2006. By Lynda Kelly.
      http://www.intercom.museum/documents/1-2Kelly.pdf
• Looking Reality in the Eye: Museums and Social Responsibility, 2005. By Robert Janes, Gerald Conaty, Ruth Abram et al. University of Calgary Press.
  https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Reality-Eye-Museums-Responsibility/dp/1552381439
• Museum Commons
  • Many blog articles by Gretchen Jennings and others on Museums and Social Responsibility
    http://www.museumcommons.com/
• Museums and Race: Transformation and Justice
  • Resources and information from a 3-day convening sparked in 2015.
    https://museumsandrace.org/
• Seton Hall University
  • Dissertations and Theses
    “Museum Activism and Social Responsibility: Building Museum Education Programs for Juvenile Offenders,” 2016. By Elizabeth Sirhall.
    http://scholarship.shu.edu/dissertations/2094
• Smithsonian Magazine
  • Article, “The Media Needs a History Lesson When Addressing Civic Unrests, says the Director of the African American History Museum,” 2015. By Adrianne Russell.
    http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/media-needs-history-lesson-addressing-civic-unrest-director-african-american-history-museum-180955140/
  • Article, “Why Museums Should Be a Safe Space to Discuss Why #BlackLivesMatter,” 2015. Menachem Wecker.
    http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-museums-should-be-safe-space-discuss-why-black-lives-matter-180955114/

Thanks again for a fantastic July chat! We hope you can join us for our August #‎OHMuseumChat, Thursday, August 18 at noon!

Have a great topic for an upcoming chat? Leave us a comment and let us know!