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Diversity, equity, & inclusion |  Accessibility  |  Advocacy  |  Gender & sexual diversity  |  Racism/anti-racism |  Social justice

Diversity, equity, inclusion

• Inclusion 2025: A practioner's guide to inclusive museums (Ontario Museum Association)
• Facing change: Advancing museum board diversity & inclusion (AAM)
• Diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion resources (AAM)
• Human resources: Staff diversity (AAM)
• The inclusive museum research network
• Incluseum
• Autism in the museum
• From the margins to the core (Victoria & Albert Museum)

Suggested subject headings for finding books in the catalogue

• Museums and minorities
• Museums -- Social aspects

Accessibility

• Smithsonian guidelines for accessible exhibition design
• Accessibility in museums & libraries (IMLS)
• Accessibility in museums: Creating a barrier-free cultural landscape (Museums + Heritage Advisor's case studies)
• ADA resources for museums, arts, and cultural institutions
• Design for accessibility: A cultural administrator's handbook [NEA, 2005]
• Meet Me: the MoMA Alzheimer's project
• Making Ontario accessible (Ministry of Community & Social Services, ON)
• Disability: A toolkit for museums working towards inclusivity (NEMO)

Suggested subject headings for finding books in the catalogue

• Museums and people with disabilities
• Museums -- Barrier-free design
• Museum buildings -- Barrier-free design

Advocacy

• Advocacy resources (AAM)
• Sample economic impact statements (AAM)
• Advocacy (Museums Association, subscription required)
• Small museum advocacy 101 (Small Museums Association)
• Everyday museum advocacy (AASLH free webinar)

Suggested subject headings for finding books in the catalogue

• Museums -- Public relations

Gender & sexual diversity and equity

• Gender Equity in Museums Movement (GEMM)
• Gender equity and inclusion (Incluseum)
• Welcoming guidelines for museums (LGBTQ Alliance/AAM)
• Gender transition & transgender inclusion in the museum workplace (AAM)
• Queering the museum project (Archived site)
• LGBQT2+ inclusion in Canadian museums (Canadian Centre for Gender & Sexual Diversity)
• Gender and LGBTQ in museums (Open access masters thesis)

Suggested subject headings for finding books in the catalogue

• Museums and sexual minorities
• Museums and minorities
• Museums -- Social aspects

Racism/anti-racism

• Museum Professionals of Colour (U of T student group)
• 158 resources to understand racism in America (Smithsonian, June 2020)
• Racism, unrest, and the role of the museum field (AAM panel, June 2020)
• Talking about race (National Museum of African American History and Culture)
• Dismantling racism in museum education (Open access article)
• Museums & Race: Transformation & Justice
• Museum Hue
• Anti-racist curatorial work (Open access article)
• Anti-racism resources in the art world (Artsy)
• Jim Crowe Museum of Racist Memorabilia 
• Statement on Confederate monuments (National Trust for Historic Preservation, June 2020)
• Statement on Confederate monuments (American Historical Association, 2017)

Suggested subject headings for finding books in the catalogue

• Museum exhibits -- Social aspects
• African Americans -- Museums
• Racism in museum exhibits
• Museums and minorities
• Racism in popular culture
• Indigenous peoples in popular culture
• Indians in popular culture

Social justice

• Coalition of museums for climate justice (Canada)
• Museums and social justice (AAM)
• Museum Activism (electronic resource, U of T libraries)
• Taking a stand against neutrality: The role of social justice in museums (paper)

Suggested subject headings for finding books in the catalogue

• Museums -- Social aspects
• Social justice
• Social justice -- Exhibits
• Museums -- Political aspects
• Museums and community
• Human rights -- Exhibits