KØN PÅ MUSEUM? En undersøgelse af hvordan museer kan queere tilgangen til køn
(2020) ABMM74 20201Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
- Abstract
- Museums today try to combat the exclusionary ground on which they were founded, with strategies of broader inclusion. In Århus, Denmark the Women’s museums vision is to be a museum for ”all genders”. In this thesis I investigate the approach to gender in the Women’s museum’s exhibition Køn Redelighed (eng. Gender Blender) (2017-2022), through a queer theoretic lense of gender as a hybrid and discursive phenomenon. I here find that the museums politics of inclusion allows for the same exclusionary reproductions as in the traditional museum. The woman’s museum is not for all genders, but is first and foremost for the stabilization of the idea of the white, cis woman. I argue that inclusion through diversity is not the appropriate strategy,... (More)
- Museums today try to combat the exclusionary ground on which they were founded, with strategies of broader inclusion. In Århus, Denmark the Women’s museums vision is to be a museum for ”all genders”. In this thesis I investigate the approach to gender in the Women’s museum’s exhibition Køn Redelighed (eng. Gender Blender) (2017-2022), through a queer theoretic lense of gender as a hybrid and discursive phenomenon. I here find that the museums politics of inclusion allows for the same exclusionary reproductions as in the traditional museum. The woman’s museum is not for all genders, but is first and foremost for the stabilization of the idea of the white, cis woman. I argue that inclusion through diversity is not the appropriate strategy, for beginning to dismantle the museums exclusionary systems. Instead there is a need to queer both our idea of gender and the museum. As museologists we can do this through critical reexamining how we use history in existing collections and exhibitions. The approach to gender in the museum should be one of destabilization of knowledge and handover of power, both literal and through institutional transparency and self-reflection. (Less)
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- author
- Lorenzen, Benny Sofie LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Gender at the museum? An investigation of how museums can queer the approach to gender
- course
- ABMM74 20201
- year
- 2020
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Museum, Memory institutions, Power, Discourse, Gender, Queer, Queering, Feminism
- language
- Danish
- id
- 9028960
- date added to LUP
- 2022-11-16 09:10:43
- date last changed
- 2022-11-16 09:10:43
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