Western Illinois University Museum Studies Hosts Museums in Progress Symposium March 18

MACOMB/MOLINE, IL – – Western Illinois University’s Museum Studies Program will host “Museums in Progress” at noon Friday, March 18 at the WIU-QC Riverfront Hall, room 111. The symposium, which will also be hosted virtually, will include a discussion with museum professionals Hannah Mason Macklin and Professor Dan Hicks. Attendees will be able to discuss, learn and debate how curators are increasingly using anticolonial practices to engage with objects that have been plundered or defined through colonial ideologies. Macklin is currently an education manager at the... Read More