Category: About The Empathetic Museum

Thank you to our member, @kayleighbindc, for so eloquently calling out the harmful behavior of organizations like @aamersofficial that seek to erase, gaslight and detract from original work; work being done by mostly Black and BIPOC women in…

The American Alliance of Museums recently posted an article, A Time of Transformation, as follow up to an original publishing by cultural organization and thought partner, LaPlaca Cohen, written by Arthur Cohen, Founder and CEO, LaPlaca Cohen A…

Welcome! We at the Empathetic Museum Are…advocating for The Case for Empathy. Institutional Empathy must live at the core of our museum practice — exhibition and new media design; inclusive and diverse exhibition design and programming in terms…

In our most recent blogpost, “An Empathetic Museum is an Antiracist Museum”, we explore what it means to be both empathetic and antiracist within our institutions. Our call to action: we need more empathy, not less. Empathy leads…

In response to our last post, check out Gretchen Jennings “Can Museums Be Empathetic? Yes” in Museum Commons.

Welcome! The Empathetic Museum is now entering the Instagram sphere! We are here to help inform, educate and guide conversations related to empathetic practice within museums and in our museum communities. Follow us for more! And check out…