The Workshop: Language(s) in Museum(s): Resources + Visions for Museology

The international and interdisciplinary workshop to plan for the development of a cluster of digital resources focused on promoting the inclusion of Indigenous and minority languages in the curatorship of museum collections and exhibitions was part of the Americas Research Network’s (ARENET) Critical Museology the COLING project, the Recovering Voices Program at the Smithsonian Institution in collaboration with the Museo Urbano Interactivo del Tecnológico de Monterrey in Puebla.

Major themes included: digital resources to facilitate multivocality and engage diverse audiences; different ways of incorporating Indigenous and minority languages and perspectives into museum exhibits, collections and curatorial practices; educational activities in museums, with schools, and in other community settings; aural and visual presentations of languages; epistemological and practical dimensions of curatorship around the inclusion of Indigenous and minority languages and cultural perspectives. The workshop would also like to explore the inclusive relations among communities, their languages, local administration, economies, and community museums.