Museums and Social Justice: Towards Reckoning and Change

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Museums face a reckoning. Thrust to the forefront of difficult conversations around toxic philanthropy, increased corporatization, decolonization, repatriation, and legacies of theft and looting, many of our cultural institutions are undergoing a period of radical transformation; seemingly redefining their very function and mission to address new public concerns, such as: Who owns the past? How bloody is too bloody? And whose museum is this, truly?Museums and Social Justice