Here we showcase past and future events/workshops hosted by the Unsettling/Indigenizing Museology (UIM) cluster and various TTTM partners.

To increase the visibility of non-White / non-Catholic contributions to Polish culture and heritage, TTTM’s National Heritage and Traumatic Memory cluster offers an annual minority artist’s residency at Polin Museum in Warsaw, co-sponsored by Partner Organizations FestivALT and Teatr Powszechny. Our first edition in Spring 2022 welcomes Jewish trans artist Tobaron Waxman (Canada), whose work raises questions about how citizenship makes moral and ethical claims upon our bodies.

To build community, deepen our knowledge, and support one another, TTTM’s Children’s Museology cluster runs a monthly Children’s Museology workshop series, with some sessions open to the public.

Critics have made clear that museums often uphold national identities and histories. Less acknowledged are the ways they also tacitly encode hetero- and cis-normative representations of the polity and public culture.

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) – Canada’s largest encyclopedic museum – has a history of complex and fraught relationships with communities linked to its collections. Over the course of the TTTM project, we will embark on a reinstallation of the permanent Africa gallery through an anti-racist process grounded in fairly compensated community co-creation and co-curation.

In a groundbreaking collaboration, TTTM is partnering with the National Museum of the American Indian and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - both in Washington, DC - on a five-day workshop to discuss what the legacies of mass violence and oppression mean to Indigenous and Jewish people, and what they can learn from each other regarding approaches to museum collections, cultural heritage caretaking, and the preservation of historical memory.

Exhibiting Theory is a multi-lingual, open-access book series presenting humanities and social science theory and method relevant for and generated from museum interventions, performances, and curatorial experiments developed in partnerships linking academia with the museum and heritage sector.

In collaboration with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Global Art Histories Pedagogy (GAHP) project examines how conceptualizing digital content for museum apps intended for the public helps researchers to address implicit biases and systemic issues early in the research design of art-historical projects.

Decolonial Museology Re­centered (DMR) addresses the lack of decolonial discourse in the Polish museum landscape and helps develop critical museology in Poland in both theory and in practice.