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A Resource Guide for Reparative Work
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This site is intended to serve as a resource for people working with GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) or teaching and research collections that are the legacies of colonial collecting practices. By providing a shared access platform with collection case studies, reassociation/repatriation best practices, and pedagogical resources, we hope to share our knowledge and processes with others doing reparative work around colonial collections.
Colonial Collections Across the University Twin Cities Collaborative
Colonial Collections Across the University Twin Cities Collaborative
Colonial Collections Across the University is cross-institutional collaboration to engage people who work with archival, museum, teaching, and research collections that are the legacies of colonial collecting practices. This project seeks to highlight the interconnectedness of these collections and further research, reassociate, and share connections between collections related to the university’s early General Museum.
The General Museum's Collections
The General Museum's Collections
Established in 1872, the General Museum at the University of Minnesota was home to many colonial collections. Since its dissolution in the late 1950s, artifacts from the General Museum's collections were dispersed to numerous geology, botany, zoology, and anthropology archives across the state of Minnesota and beyond, with little documentation.
A recent team of researchers has started tracing artifacts from the General Museum to institutions across the country as part of a larger project of repatriating university colonial collections.
The case study is a concrete example of our history of collecting practice and also how to enact a duty of care and responsibility for items, even when they may no longer be in our possession.
Pedagogical Resources & Toolkit
Pedagogical Resources & Toolkit
A growing collection of available resources for teaching and learning about the process of reassociating colonial collections and repairing harm.
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