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Reflections and Resources

The Braided Book: An (Altered) Canadian History Chantal Gibson, 2010
The Braided Book: An (Altered) Canadian History,  Chantal Gibson, 2010

Below are projects that I am involved with and/or inspired by.

Museum Experiments:

A Change of Heart – artist Fred Wilson

Of Africa – Royal Ontario Museum

Of Africa in the Toronto Star

Museum 2.0 (Nina Simon)

The Uncatalogued Museum (Linda Norris)

Alternative Tourism and Heritage:

Subversive Tourism in South Africa- interview on Q (CBC)

Correspondances Community Arts Project (with Paul Tom)

Souvenir, Talisman, Toy (Erica Lehrer) 

Research Projects and Centres:

Curating and Public Scholarship Lab (CaPSL)

Thinking Through The Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public

Blogs by Shelley Ruth Butler:

Reflections on the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Curating Black History and Culture in Canada

Making Knowledge Public (with Mary Caple)

Theory at the Museum

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