Description

The Center for Restorative History was established by the Smithsonian’s American history museum in 2019. Its purpose is to facilitate museum projects undertaken in collaboration with communities. Such close work with communities has become an increasingly essential component of museum practice as museums seek to document and interpret the complexities of the current moment, as well as to redress past injustices. NMAH’s Center is engaged in a variety of projects with communities, including traveling an exhibition on the defaced Emmett Till monument to Tallahatchie County, MS, where Till was murdered. But the Center has no full-time staff to act as coordinator and facilitator between curators and communities, to organize programming, etc. This grant would help to pay a community liaison for two years as CRH seeks to expand and deepen its work.