Museums as Agents of Change: A Guide to Becoming a Changemaker (American Alliance of Museums)

Museums and cities have a strong role to play together in bridging and bonding. They bring people together at similar life stages… or with identity in common… where they can share their experiences. Museums also bridge among identities, offering a public place to bring different groups together around similar interests. (Lord and Blankenship 2016,

foregrounding the people-centered work of building community, growing empathy and understanding, celebrating human creativity, and cultivating engaged citizenship?

At the end of the day, becoming a changemaker is about taking risks, sticking to your core values, doing good work, and converting talk into action.

museums as transformative spaces of human connection, care, listening, and deep learning.

But they are also living institutions that serve a powerful role as active spaces for connection and coming together; for dialogue and difficult conversations; for listening and sharing; and for care, healing, and repair.