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DEAI + The Role of Museums • Activate + Maintain DEAI Within Your Institution

How to Talk About Race + Racial Identity • Sample Diversity + Inclusion Statements

Readiness Assessments • How to Measure Your Museum's Social Impact

Webinars • DEAI Reading Material • Actionable Resources​

WMA approaches Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) as a process that must be committed to and regularly reaffirmed. Rather than diversity being a box to be checked, we view D&I as the constant examining and questioning of the makeup of our group to ensure that multiple perspectives are represented, and that there is a sense of inclusion amongst members, staff, and board.

Diversity & Inclusion Statement – Western Museums Association (WMA)

Here, we offer support through the sharing of trusted, valuable, and educational resources to help museums address and reaffirm their commitment to diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion (DEAI), and to develop concrete action plans for moving forward.​

DEAI + the Role of Museums

• What Is DEAI, and How Can Evaluation Be Used to Promote this Work? – American Alliance of Museums (AAM)

• Doing the Work: A Discussion on Visioning and Realizing Racial Equity in Museum – Journal of Museum Education

• Equity Toolkit – California Association of Museums (CAM)

• Inside Out Outside In: A resilience model for museums offers strategies to address challenging realities. – AAM

• National Landscape Study: DEAI Practices in Museums – CCLI

• Museums, White Privilege, and Diversity: A Systemic Perspective – Museum Commons

• Facing Change: Insights from AAM’s DEAI Working Group – AAM

• Racism, Unrest, and the Role of the Museum Field – AAM Virtual Conference Special Session (Webinar Recording)

• The Arc of Accessibility Work in Museum Education – Museum Education Roundtable

• Hammer Curator Erin Christovale on How Museums Can Support Social Justice – Hammer Museum

• My Experience as a “Minority Intern” at a Museum in the 1990s – Rachael Arauz for Hyperallergic

Activate + Maintain DEAI Within Your Institution

• How to Build an Anti-Racist Company – Harvard Business Review

• Social Justice & Museums Resource List – Initiated and edited by Tanya S. Autry @artstuffmatters

• It Is Time to Include AANHPIs In Museum Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion Efforts – Edward Tepporn for AAM

• Harnessing the Power of Age Diversity – Harvard Business Review

• Five Ways Workplaces Can Become More Neuro-inclusive, According to Neurodiversity Advocates – Your Brain at Work

• Equity Action Plan (PDF) – CAM

• Audiences and Inclusion: A Primer for Cultivating More Inclusive Attitudes Among the Public – AAM

• A Museum Manifesto for a More Equitable Future – AAM

• Next Practices in Diversity and Inclusion – Association of Art Museum Directors

• 5 Inclusive Workplace Practices For Your Remote Team – We Work Remotely

• Diversity And Inclusion: A Complete Guide For HR Professionals – Ideal

• LGBTQ Alliance Welcome Guidelines for Museums – AAM

• Diversity and Inclusion – The Inclusive Historian's Handbook

• How Translations Can Promote Diversity and Inclusion at Museums – Eriksen Translations

• Racial Equity Tools – RacialEquityTools.org

• How to Start an Accessibility Movement at Your Museum – AAM

• Accessibility Resources for Museum Professionals – Access Smithsonian

• Accessibility Resources – Museum, Arts and Culture Access Consortium

• Accessibility Resources – Chicago Cultural Accessibility Consortium

• Accessible & Inclusive Museums—How Small Measures Add Up – Eriksen Translations

• Inclusive Digital Interactives: Best Practices & Research – Access Smithsonian, Institute for Human Centered Design, + MuseWeb 

• Virtual Event Accessibility Resources – National Endowment for the Arts

• Web Accessibility Standards – World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) + Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

• 10 Best Practices of Accessible Museum Websites – AAM

• How Translation Helps Museums Promote Intergenerational Learning – Eriksen Translations

• How Can We Make Volunteer Programs More Inclusive and Accessible? – AAM  

How to Talk About Race + Identity in the Workplace

• For Museum Leaders Who Want to Do Better – AAM

• Diversity Toolkit: A Guide to Discussing Identity, Power and Privilege – MSW@USC

• How Organizations Can Support the Mental Health of Black Employees – Harvard Business Review

• Talking About Race Web Portal – National Museum of African American History and Culture

• Talking About Race – National Museum of African American History and Culture

• How To Have Conversations About Race At Work – Forbes

• How Should You Be Talking With Employees About Racism? – Entrepreneur

Sample DEAI Statements

• Writing a Diversity and Inclusion Statement: How to Get It Right – U.S. Chamber of Commerce

• Craft the Perfect Diversity Statement for Your Organization – Learning Hub

• Examples of Values Statements with Commitments to Diversity/Inclusiveness – The Denver Foundation

• Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion – AAM

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Museum – American Museum of Natural History

• Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion – Earthjustice

• Welcoming Statement – Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose

• Policy on Diversity – University of California Regents

• Diversity and Inclusion – Kaiser Permanente

• Diversity & Inclusion Statement – IBM 

• Inclusion & Collaboration Statement – CISCO

Readiness Assessments

• Museum As Site for Social Action Readiness Assessment – MASS Action

• Racial Equity Readiness Assessment For Workforce Development – Race Forward 

• Tool for Organizational Self-Assessment Related to Racial Equity –  Coalition of Communities of Color + All Hands Raised

How to Measure Your Museum's Social Impact

• Museum Impact Study – Museum Social Impact

• Measuring the Social Impact of Museums – AAM

• Methods for Measuring Social Impact: Measuring Socially Engaged Practice – Museums Association

• Social Impact Study – Utah Division of Arts & Museums

• Measuring Social Impact to Make Social Changes: Learn How To Get Involved – AASLH

• How can you measure the social impact of museums and celebrate the successes of programs and initiatives? – MuseumNext

• What is our museum’s social impact? – AAM

• Museum As Site for Social Action Toolkit – MASS ACTION

• What is our museum’s social impact? –  Article by Medium on the Oakland Museum of California

DEAI Reading Material

• "Museums as Agents of Change: A Guide to Becomming a Changemaker" by Mike Murawski

• "Museums, White Privilege, and Diversity: A Systemic Perspective" by Gretchen Jennings and Joanne Jones-Rizzi

• “Activating Diversity and Inclusion: A Blueprint for Museum Educators as Allies and Change Makers” by Wendy Ng, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Alyssa Greenberg

• "Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice" by Geneva Gay

Webinars on the Topic of DEAI

• Digital Accessibility & Inclusion – Intro Session: Get Inspired – Museum Learning Hub

• Technical Workshop 1: Intro to Digital Accessibility and Inclusion – Museum Learning Hub

• Technical Workshop 2: Live/Streamed Program Accessibility – Museum Learning Hub

• Technical Workshop 3: Accessibility in Digital Collections – Museum Learning Hub

• Publishing: Incorporating DEIA Principles – AAMC Foundation

• Striving Towards an Equitable Future: Addressing Systemic Injustice as a Cultural Organization – Cuseum

• Moving Forward with NAGPRA virtual workshop – Oregon Museums Association

• Museums Cannot Be Silent: Whitney Plantation – SEMC

• Lunch & Learn: How XR Experiences in Museums Can Support DEAI – CAM

• Inclusivity in Isolation – AAAMC Foundation + Association of African American Museums

• What's on your mind? DEAI and Creating Real Change – MAAM

• Whose Hero? New Perspectives on Monuments in Public Landscapes – ICSC

• Diversity & Community Support in Membership & Visitor Services – Cuseum

Actionable Resources for You + Your Organization

• BlackLivesMatter.org

• ColorOfChange.org

• Official George Floyd Memorial Fund

• Justice for Breonna Taylor Official Fund

• National Association of Black Journalists Fund

• National Police Accountability Project

• A Framework for Action in Response to Moments of Outrage & Crisis – OF/BY/FOR ALL

• Undoing Racism® Workshops – The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB)

• Black Lives Matter Resources – Shangri La: Museum of Islamic Art, Culture, & Design

Do you have DEAI resources you'd like to add?

Please share with us at communications@westmuse.org.

These resources are subject to change and will be updated as new information becomes available.