Each week the Brooklyn Museum Summer Interns and Fellows participate in full-day educational program

Each week the Brooklyn Museum Summer Interns and Fellows participate in full-day educational programs that explore the roles of museums through on-site visits and field trips to other institutions around the city. Look out for our weekly posts where we’ll share what we’re doing and learning in the program.Week Six: This Tuesday morning, we readied ourselves to visit two museums: The New Museum and The Museum of Chinese Americans. At The New Museum, we were introduced to the Black School and exhibits by Kameelah Janan Rasheed that explores the past and futures of black critical pedagogies. After a short introduction the space, we were able to freely analyze the works of art, complete community surveys provided by the Black School and enter into Rasheed’s research space that provides scholarly works for the public to read and even scan and take home. Rasheed was able to create a space that was both artistic and archival, which both aspects worked strongly together to educate the general public about black history that advocates for black education.After meeting with the participants of The New Museum’s teen programs and discussing their roles in educating visitors about the importance of the exhibits, we made our way a few streets down to the Museum of Chinese Americans. There we were able to freely walk around and explore the museum, which focuses more on history and archival documents than physical art objects. From the history of opium trade to the treatment of Chinese Americans during the Red Scare, the museum provided 160 years of Chinese history for visitors in an informative and interactive way. Kevin Chu, the collections manager for the museum, library and archives, was kind enough to give a tour of the archives for the museum to us. While walking around the storage room, Kevin explained that the collection not only revolves around Chinese American history, but each object tells an individual story, which any museum would argue is the importance of having an archive. Posted by Maribel Cosme-Vitagliani -- source link

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