Major museums around the world are returning a lot of art and artifacts to their rightful owners - countries that were formerly colonized by European nations. That conversation about decolonizing the museum is also happening here in Canada. President and CEO of the McCord-Stewart museum, Suzanne Sauvage; independent curator-activist, Dominique Fontaine and Inuk researcher and Indigenous arts historian, Heather Igliorte explain what the work looks like and what still needs to be done.
To mark its 100th anniversary, the McCord Museum is launching a new open access platform with bilingual descriptions of over 140,000 objects, photographs, and archival documents from its collections. The
Starting Oct. 13, visitors will be able to explore exhibits at the McCord Museum in downtown Montreal free of charge, as part of the 100th birthday celebrations of the institution.
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