Provisional Inclusion: Can collections research projects ever be genuinely ethical and equitable?

In this presentation Anjalie Dalal-Clayton and Ananda Rutherford will reflect critically on their involvement in the Towards a National Collection projects Provisional Semantics (2020-2022) and Transforming Collections (2022-2024). They consider: what do we mean when we talk about ‘inclusive practices’ in museums and public collections? Could our ‘inclusive’ best practice in fact be perpetuating long-standing exclusions, given the structural racism and colonial logics inherent in the broader museum project and its conventions, histories, and infrastructure? And is genuine, long-term and embedded ‘inclusion’ effectively precluded by collections-based research projects within the museum as institution?

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