Do your exhibitions spark real, meaningful dialog? Are your visitors truly engaged? 4Culture and UW Museology invite you to join us in examining our practices as a museum community.
Friday, January 13, 2017, 4:00-6:00 pm
UW Intellectual House
Sarah Pharaon, Senior Director of Methodology and Practice with the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, will explore how to go beyond relevant and become essential. In her work with the Coalition—a worldwide network of over 200 places of memory dedicated to struggles for justice—Sarah oversees professional training and resource development across Coalition membership.
Through her leadership, Coalition sites are working to move away from relying on experts to convey meaning, and to instead foster much-needed community dialogue.
Prior to her work at the Coalition, Sarah worked as Director of Education at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and was the founding curator of the Arab American National Museum. She is a consulting trainer on dialogue and community engagement for the National Park Service and serves on the Leadership Council for the American Association for State and Local History.
This event is free! Please RSVP to museologyRSVP@gmail.com.