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Settler Colonialism, Slavery, and the Problem of Decolonizing Museums 
Hi, from Mexico
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Will you post links to your tours somewhere we can get to them?
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Thank you for sharing this, great presentations and ongoing initiatives. Might you be able to share any audience research results on the anti-colonial tour pilot? What percentage of visitors uses the QR codes? How does it affect visitors’ understanding of the Piedras Negras stelae and the erasures of local expertise and knowledge? How have you decided which stops will be developed and who is telling the stories with you?
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And your Omeka website, too, please!
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How do you see using current collections in the future?
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I was wondering if the panelists could reflect on the fact that the Penn Museum has repatriated maybe just a few hundred of the skeletal ancestors, and fewer, proportionately, of the object-beings in their collections…How do you see your work articulating with a potential commitment the museum could make toward more repatriation and restitution?
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What are the theoretical basis or theoretical grounds are you basing and selecting QR Codes as tools for museuological practices?
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Interested in the Black Graves protection act suggestion. However NAGPRA is old and outdated and without “teeth”, how would you want to see decolonization and repatriation better employed with both the suggested BlackGPRA and 1990 NAGPRA?
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Thank you for your work. How do you also take into account the biases of the museum guests as they engage with the museum as is and the additional personal work that would be required by your decolonial tour?
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How did you create your QR codes in a way that really works?
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Thank you for talking about ways to translate your ideas into practice! Please think about ways to disseminate your scholarship to practitioners, who rarely access academic resources.
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Considering the differences between museums in colonized countries of the Americas and Africa and museums in European countries that historically colonized others, and the differences between the museum “audiences” in those locations, how would “ruptures” differ in these contexts?
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I’d like to understand the idea behind this acknowledging of the land of indigenous people. Do the communities benefit in some way? Can the descendants eventually lay claim to the land and somehow benefit? Are they just acknowledged and that’s it? Is it just to serve as a reminder of settler colonialism?
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