The Queer Museum: Radical Inclusion and Western Museology [Hardcover]

1. Introduction; 2. Queer Museology: Building a LGBTQ+ Museum Theory; 3. Whats in a Name? Queer British Art 1861-1967 at Tate Britain; 4. Politically and Personally Queer:?Coming Out:?Sexuality, Gender & Identity?at the?Walker Art Gallery; 5. Never Queer Enough: A Queer Utopia at the Van Abbemuseum; 6. We have to do it ourselves. No one else will do that: Queer Feminism & Activism in the Schwules Museum; 7. The Queer Utopic Museum and its Limits; 8. Conclusion

The Queer Museum examines how relationships between institutions and LGBTQ+ communities function and how they help to define queer museum practice.

Erica Elizabeth Macdonald Robenalt (she/her) is a recent graduate from Newcastle University and an independent researcher. Her research focuses on intersections between queer theory and museology to better understand the queer museum. Looking at museum exhibitions and programming, community relationships and institutional identity through the lens of queer utopia and futurity, her work critically engages with inclusivity and social justice oriented museal discourses.

The Queer Museum examines how relationships between institutions and LGBTQ+ communities function and how they help to define queer museum practice.

Analysing what it means to queer the museum in Western contexts, the book builds upon and challenges texts about inclusionary, activist museum practice and discusses the ways in which Othered communities are engaged with and represented. Arguing that an institutions understanding of queerness is directly related to the kind, and extent, of change pursued by the museum, the author clarifies that governance structures, staff hierarchies, funding and relationships to queer communities affect the way queering might be pursued. The analysis looks critically at exhibiló(