In the wake of the pandemic and its far-reaching consequences, museums are having to rethink their relationship with exhibitions, some of which were blocked internationally during the health crisis.
As Canada has begun reckoning intensely in recent years with the ugly chapters of its history with Indigenous people, its museums have pushed further than most in transforming themselves scrapping galleries, rethinking their exhibitions, refashioning the stories they tell and who has the power to tell them, in a process called “decolonization.”