The Intentional Museum

Date: 

Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Online

American historian Christy Coleman is the distinguished lecturer for the 2021 Seminar in Innovative Curatorial Practice. Coleman is renowned for creating innovative, engaging,and inclusive museum exhibitions and programs that tell a comprehensive story of American history. In this program she discusses the power that museums have to engage with communities around topics that they truly value.

The Seminar in Innovative Curatorial Practice

Established in 2014 this is a partnership between the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture and the Harvard Art Museums. The program engages renowned scholars whose innovative and interdisciplinary practice challenges traditional approaches to exhibitions. These innovators share their work with the broader public through a lecture, and with Harvard students and faculty, through discussions focused on rethinking ways to integrate the university’s art, natural history, science, and social science collections with the teaching and research mission of the university.

Presented in collaboration with the Harvard Art Museums and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, as part of the presidential initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery.

Advance registration required. Please note that registration closes 30 minutes prior to the event start time.

To join the program, you will need to download the free Zoom app in advance. If you already have Zoom, you do not need to download it again. For details on how to improve your Zoom experience, visit the How to Attend an HMSC Program webpage.