Making Connections, Increasing Visibility, and Telling Stories: Indigenizing Open Storage at IUMAA

FAIN: GE-285340-22

Trustees of Indiana University (Bloomington, IN 47405-7000)
Sarah Junk Hatcher (Project Director: August 2021 to present)

Planning for a permanent visible storage exhibition of Native American and Indigenous archaeological and ethnographic objects using dialogue-based interpretive approaches.

The new Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (IUMAA) seeks an Exhibition Planning grant to plan a permanent exhibition of Indigenous archaeological and ethnographic objects using visible storage. We propose to collaborate with Indigenous scholars to create an exhibition format—Indigenized Open Storage—that confronts traditional museum practice and changes the way this university museum delivers on the promise of access and collaboration.