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Diversity and the Museum of London
Author(s) -
Kahn David M.
Publication year - 1994
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/j.2151-6952.1994.tb01022.x
Subject(s) - exhibition , diversification (marketing strategy) , immigration , diversity (politics) , face (sociological concept) , visual arts , history , geography , sociology , art history , archaeology , art , anthropology , social science , business , marketing
Increasingly, some — but not all — urban history museums are facing the challenges of reaching out to and serving growingly diversified populations. Described here is the Museum of London's The Peopling of London , which recognizes the history and contributions of immigrant communities and their descendants. Planning for the exhibition required an about face from the museum's traditional in‐house method of exhibition development — involving members of minority communities. Both the planning process and the resulting exhibition serve as a model for consideration and possibly emulation as urban history museums look at the growing diversification of the populations they serve.