MuseumNext returns to Edinburgh with a three day conference about transforming Museums, and De will be there as a featured presenter!

What happens when museums become activists? How might they transform how they partner with communities to defend against social challenges in a rapidly-changing socio-cultural landscape? During this presentation at the 2020 Museum Next Conference, Harvard Loeb Fellow and designer-activist, De Nichols, will share creative strategies and approaches that museums can leverage to build community-driven coalitions in the address of spatial injustices, residential displacement, and cultural shifts. Strategies will review a range of case studies as it focuses on how these approaches are helping The Griot Museum of Black History in St. Louis, MO, transform its practices, leadership, and pedagogy to respond to rapid private development that has displaced much of its surrounding neighbourhood.

About Museum Next

Founded in 2009 in England, MuseumNext brings together a passionate community of museum leaders, makers and innovators to ask ‘what’s next for museums?’

We believe that museums must look to the future to stay relevant in a rapidly changing world.

And by bringing together a community of people passionate about museums to share their experiences, we help to spark positive change in the sector.

MuseumNext conferences take place in cultural capitals around the world. While each is different, what unites them is the friendly laid back atmosphere and a focus on real actionable advice.