-- Historic New England and the Peabody Essex Museum and MHS staff discuss how their institutions have used exhibitions to facilitate discussion around difficult histories.--
Erica Lome, Curator, Historic New England & Karina Corrigan, Associate Director-Collections & H. A. Crosby Forbes Curator of Asian Export Art, Peabody Essex Museum in conversation with Catherine Allgor, President, Massachusetts Historical Society
Cultural shifts and updated curatorial standards have influenced current ideas about what is appropriate to discuss and display in museums and historical organizations. Increasingly, journalists, critics, scholars, and the public are approaching museum exhibitions with a more critical eye as to which stories organizations choose to interpret as well as those that are absent. Join us as MHS President Catherine Allgor moderates a conversation among representatives from Historic New England and the Peabody Essex Museum, about the curatorial decision-making process on how to tell difficult histories. Speakers will touch on debates about displaying controversial objects and speak to how their institutions use exhibitions as a tool to facilitate discussion.
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