During this month’s First Saturday, we’re debuting a new program that showcases the Arch

During this month’s First Saturday, we’re debuting a new program that showcases the Archives, and I could not be more excited to open up the Museum’s history during the Age of Black Power. We will be offering a public tour of the Archives and making files from the Museum’s history available to peruse in our Libraries and Archives’ Reading Room. I was inspired to propose this program while my colleague and I were deciding which archival documents related to the Community Gallery to include in Soul of a Nation. It was so hard to choose only a few pieces of paper when each folder contains hundreds of documents. I wanted the public to see the entirety of the Archives’ materials themselves, not just our curated selection.With the assistance of my talented colleagues, this month we’ll be framing Archives as raw history, open to each person’s interpretation, rather than the dominant historical narrative that is prepackaged and dictatory. This tour is an attempt to expose how history is subjective and constructed, but the infinite untold stories contained in Archives have the potential to enable people to rewrite, add nuance, and expand our understanding. Directly engaging with these historic documents, you realize that trying to piece together what people did and said 50 years ago is difficult and brings forward so many emotions. Brooklyn Museum’s history has ramifications for people who experience and work in the Museum today. Even though it has been half a century, it is a history that is still raw for many people. Making the Archives available in this new format is a concerted effort to make our history more transparent. Our Archives are open for research by anyone, and we encourage you to schedule an appointment if you can’t make the tour!Tour: Archives as Raw History will take place on Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 7:30. 30 free tickets will be available at Admissions at 6:30 pm on a first come, first served basis. Hope to see you there!Posted by J.E. Molly Seegers -- source link

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