Analyse and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your chosen room/s from the British Museum, explain why equitable and accessible representation in museums is important for contemporary archaeology AND for Indigenous communities.

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Cropped colour photograph of the Great Court in the British Museum, London. Image from Max Pixel.

Analyse and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your chosen room/s from the British Museum, explain why equitable and accessible representation in museums is important for contemporary archaeology AND for Indigenous communities.

PART 1 | The Museum context? (roughly 200 words)

PART 2 | Whose voices and stories? (roughly 100 words) |

What information is included and excluded? (roughly 100 words)

In your conclusion, based on your analysis in Parts 1-3 above, account for: whose past is represented and for whom?

– Wajid, S., & Kasmani, S., “How Can You Decolonise Musems?“, museumnext.com. 2 June 2020. Accessed 15 March 2022. <https://www.museumnext.com/article/decolonising-museums/>.