Resources

Museum Workers Speak Panels and Publications

Resource Roundup: Museum Activism and Social Justice (Fall 2020)

Mutual Aid and Organizing for Museum Workers in Crisis (article, Viewfinder, September 11, 2020)

ReMuseum 2020: Labor and Social Justice (panel, California Association of Museums, October 15, 2020)

Museum Workers’ Relief Fund: Museum Worker Solidarity in Action (panel, Museums & Race, September 9, 2020)

Community at Work: LAM Mutual Aid and Solidarity (panel, Archival Workers Emergency Fund, July 16, 2020)

Museum Workers Speak (panel, Death To Museums, September 5, 2020)


Articles

Collective Care is Our Best Weapon Against COVID-19

Equitable Institutional Sustainability in Times of Crisis (April 17, 2020)

Lessons From Mutual Aid During the Coronavirus Crisis (April 9, 2020)

Democratizing Museum Labor (May 1, 2020)

Spreadsheet Highlights Major Income Disparities at Cultural Institutions (April 29, 2020)

Artists, Scholars, and Museum Workers Petition Museums to Retain Staff During Pandemic (April 20, 2020)

Art World’s Labor Force Faces Serious Coronavirus Threat, Survey Finds (March 27, 2020)

Museum Workers Unite: A Publication of the Museum and Exhibition Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (May 1, 2020)


Sites

Museum Staff Impact during COVID-19 - Spreadsheet

Ten Equity Implications of the Coronavirus COVID-19 Outbreak in the United States

The Incluseum

Emergency Resources for Artists in the Wake of COVID-19

Archival Workers Emergency Fund

#DearMuseums - Museum Educators Roundtable


Twitter accounts

@MuseumWorkers

@AMTransparency

@MuseumsandRace

@awefund2020

#museumsarenotneutral

Other

Seema Rao, Objective Lessons: Self-Care for Museum Workers (2017) [read for free on Kindle Unlimited]

Arts + All Museums Salary Transparency 2019 Spreadsheet

Open Letter to Museums and Galleries in support of education and other essential workers

Cultura Conscious podcast by MWS organizer Paula Santos