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Curation to Context: A Map of Your Own Backyard
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Partners

Musuem Collaborators

District Six Museum

National Museum of African American History & Culture

Birmingham Civil Rights Musuem

Map Items

Explore each featured item below.

 
Item #1: Tulsa Riot Penny
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Item #3: Segregated Drinking Fountain from Downtown Birmingham
Birmingham Civil Rights Museum
Item #5: Street Signs
District 6 Museum
Item #2: Cloche from Mae's Millinery Shop
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Item #4: Birmingham Police Riot Vehicle
Birmingham Civil Rights Museum
Item #6: For Use by Whites Sign
District 6 Museum

About the Project

The inspiration for "Curation to Context: A Map of Your Own Backyard"

This project aims to bring the museum to your own backyard through virtual accessibility with a focus on POC communities on a website platform. The project will choose items across three different museums (National Museum of African American History and Culture, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, District Six Museum) and map them on the website allowing users to explore the items. First in conjunction with one another on the map, and second, individually on separate subpages. By bringing these multiple museums together this project will allow the users to experience regional traditions from their own community and see how they disperse on a global scale. These museums were chosen to give access to POC neighborhoods and history in a way that is overlooked in most American History museums. The motivation of “Curation to Context: A Map of Your Own Backyard” is to give individuals access to their local history, delineating where items in museums are coming from and putting the collections in context, back to their origins. The significance of this project is to connect history to today’s local communities. This will allow outreach to communities allowing culture to not be contained within an institutionalized, exclusive system. It is important to allow this outreach to communities allowing education and connection to local history through tangible items moving isolated museum items out of curation and into context.

Our Amazing Team

Micayla Spiros

Lillian Young

Sari Saba-Sadiya

Get in touch!

If you have any questions about the project or specific objects please send us an email.