Psychology of Identity: Understanding Its Importance in Museums

Abstract

In the cultural and social politics of public culture, museums, and communities, the goal should be to exemplify progress through developing understanding of the social complexities of history and narratives in museums. The multiplicity of cultures seeks to acknowledge and address institutional concerns in changing times and the pursuit of best practice behavior in professionals in the museum field. In between personal and direct interests, the relationship of identity and audience engagement, bond-forming is the application of cooperative action and honest engagement of the role of the subjective narrative of engaging with cultural identity. Additionally, intersectional communities are an important contemporary issue in democratization and decolonizing practices. These practices support the grander picture of effective best practice cooperative curation and understanding its importance to learning, identity, and engagement. In the process of development and organization, the importance of the relationship between cultural identity and the visitor experience in cultural institutions ought to be no mystery. Identity bonding and connecting with the society of which representative collection, create the type of sustainable social relationships that these spaces need to exist. Drawing on cultural displays and exhibitions and derivative knowledge and implicit contradictions of histories follow the complexity of multi-narrative and subjective aspects of individual cultural identities.

Presenters

Paris Willoughby
Student, MA Museum Studies, Southern University at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

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Presentation Type

Focused Discussion

Theme

Representations

KEYWORDS

Identity, Cooperate, Co-curation, Psychology, Engagement, Culture, Representation, Bonding, Sustainability, Community

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