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Crowdsourcing a Current Events Exhibition on Community Activism Against DAPL
Author(s) -
Kieffer C. L.,
Romanek Devorah
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
curator: the museum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2151-6952
pISSN - 0011-3069
DOI - 10.1111/cura.12302
Subject(s) - exhibition , crowdsourcing , politics , the arts , pipeline (software) , ethical issues , sociology , media studies , public relations , visual arts , political science , world wide web , computer science , engineering ethics , art , engineering , law , programming language
Today's museum ethics encourages us to create exhibits that are socially relevant in a timely manner. For some museums this is difficult to do under financial restraints. This article discusses the issues of an unscheduled exhibit on the Dakota Access Pipeline at a state museum (Museum of Indian Arts & Culture) and a university museum (the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology) and how both institutions worked to overcome these issues, with an eye towards how to implement future ‘current events’ exhibitions. How these institutions successfully executed the crowdsourcing of current events exhibit content and dealt with issues that arose during the design and planning phase of the exhibitions are also discussed. Ultimately this crowdsourcing via social media approach can be used for addressing larger ethical and political issues that many museums want to include into their exhibits in a timely manner.