Events

Corporate sponsorship of museums and science education can compromise the basic idea of museums as reliable sources of common knowledge. By considering historical as well as contemporary examples of museum funding, we look at the power structures embedded in practices of collecting and display.

On the institution as a site of collective power that can be leveraged to advance a just and sustainable future for all.

Institutional critique expresses and comes up against the limits of the institution. How are activist artists borrowing the vocabulary of the museum and in so doing extending the political potential already dividing the institution from within?

The Natural History Museum had its grand opening and inaugural exhibition at the Queens Museum in September – October, 2014. It was timed to coincide with the People’s Climate March,