Il Tolomeo Rivista di studi postcoloniali | A Postcolonial Studies Journal | Journal d’études postcoloniales | Revista de estudos pós-coloniais

Journal | Il Tolomeo
Journal issue | 25 | 2023
Research Article | The Museum of London ‘Diversity Matters Programme’ and Redbridge Museum: Creating Equality, Exhibiting Ethnicity from a Local Perspective

The Museum of London ‘Diversity Matters Programme’ and Redbridge Museum: Creating Equality, Exhibiting Ethnicity from a Local Perspective

Abstract

The Museum of London ‘Diversity Matters Programme’ was launched in 2018 and closed in 2021. The programme encouraged London’s small non-national museums to embrace the Arts Council England’s directions to stimulate participation across socio-economic barriers such as the Equality Act (2010) and the Equality Duty (2011) recommended. However, the project results indicate a top-down approach to the involvement of minorities that seems to clash with the idea of inclusiveness itself. The local museums aimed to establish a bottom-up local history experience where visitors were content creators. These two opposite perspectives share the same scope but use different methods to achieve inclusion. By discussing survey data, the article investigates the Diversity Matters Programme as realised by Redbridge Museum, London, revealing competing and conflicting power relations that underpin the engineering of diversity and inclusion.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: March 2, 2023 | Accepted: Sept. 25, 2023 | Published Dec. 18, 2023 | Language: en

Keywords Museums • Gujurat • Social inclusion • Redbridge Museum • Public engagement • Museum of London • Ethnicity • Storytelling

Copyright © 2023 Silvia Pireddu. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2023/01/014


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