The Museum of London ‘Diversity Matters Programme’ and Redbridge Museum: Creating Equality, Exhibiting Ethnicity from a Local Perspective
The Museum of London ‘Diversity Matters Programme’ was launched in 2018 and closed in 2021. The programme encouraged London’s small non-national museums to embrace the Arts Council England’s directions to stimulate participation across socio-economic barriers such as the Equality Act (2010) and t...
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The Museum of London ‘Diversity Matters Programme’ was launched in 2018 and closed in 2021. The programme encouraged London’s small non-national museums to embrace the Arts Council England’s directions to stimulate participation across socio-economic barriers such as the Equality Act (2010) and the Equality Duty (2011) recommended. However, the project results indicate a top-down approach to the involvement of minorities that seems to clash with the idea of inclusiveness itself. The local museums aimed to establish a bottom-up local history experience where visitors were content creators. These two opposite perspectives share the same scope but use different methods to achieve inclusion. By discussing survey data, the article investigates the Diversity Matters Programme as realised by Redbridge Museum, London, revealing competing and conflicting power relations that underpin the engineering of diversity and inclusion.
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| spelling | doaj.art-9cf4bc12e3854266a0481b5df4d38ade2023-12-18T17:04:03ZengFondazione Università Ca’ FoscariIl Tolomeo2499-59752023-12-01252510.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2023/01/014journal_article_12309The Museum of London ‘Diversity Matters Programme’ and Redbridge Museum: Creating Equality, Exhibiting Ethnicity from a Local PerspectivePireddu, Silvia0Università degli Studi di Torino, Italia The Museum of London ‘Diversity Matters Programme’ was launched in 2018 and closed in 2021. The programme encouraged London’s small non-national museums to embrace the Arts Council England’s directions to stimulate participation across socio-economic barriers such as the Equality Act (2010) and the Equality Duty (2011) recommended. However, the project results indicate a top-down approach to the involvement of minorities that seems to clash with the idea of inclusiveness itself. The local museums aimed to establish a bottom-up local history experience where visitors were content creators. These two opposite perspectives share the same scope but use different methods to achieve inclusion. By discussing survey data, the article investigates the Diversity Matters Programme as realised by Redbridge Museum, London, revealing competing and conflicting power relations that underpin the engineering of diversity and inclusion. http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2023/01/014Ethnicity. Gujurat. Museum of London. Museums. Public engagement. Redbridge Museum. Social inclusion. Storytelling |
| spellingShingle | Pireddu, Silvia The Museum of London ‘Diversity Matters Programme’ and Redbridge Museum: Creating Equality, Exhibiting Ethnicity from a Local Perspective Il Tolomeo Ethnicity. Gujurat. Museum of London. Museums. Public engagement. Redbridge Museum. Social inclusion. Storytelling |
| title | The Museum of London ‘Diversity Matters Programme’ and Redbridge Museum: Creating Equality, Exhibiting Ethnicity from a Local Perspective |
| title_full | The Museum of London ‘Diversity Matters Programme’ and Redbridge Museum: Creating Equality, Exhibiting Ethnicity from a Local Perspective |
| title_fullStr | The Museum of London ‘Diversity Matters Programme’ and Redbridge Museum: Creating Equality, Exhibiting Ethnicity from a Local Perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Museum of London ‘Diversity Matters Programme’ and Redbridge Museum: Creating Equality, Exhibiting Ethnicity from a Local Perspective |
| title_short | The Museum of London ‘Diversity Matters Programme’ and Redbridge Museum: Creating Equality, Exhibiting Ethnicity from a Local Perspective |
| title_sort | museum of london diversity matters programme and redbridge museum creating equality exhibiting ethnicity from a local perspective |
| topic | Ethnicity. Gujurat. Museum of London. Museums. Public engagement. Redbridge Museum. Social inclusion. Storytelling |
| url | http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2023/01/014 |
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