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Activations for Activism


By changing a familiar landscape, a neighborhood activation can stop people in their tracks – or at least give them pause. What happens when you capitalize on that brief pause to ask passersby to consider something important that needs fixing – and learn how they can take action?

Project Spotlight

Monument Lab field trip guide
Monument Lab is a public art and history studio in Philadelphia that works to completely re-imagine public monuments and art, by centering excluded voices and promoting justice.  The Monument Lab Field Trip is a great introduction to their work, but really – check out their entire website!
Paper Monument project poster about John Thompson
Inspired by Monument Lab, and the fight to remove Jim Crow-era monuments in New Orleans, the Paper Monuments project asks all New Orleanians to “imagine new monuments.” Artist’s posters, speculative monument designs, and the art walk installation “Re:Present” all celebrate an inclusive telling of city history.
What is Food Justice display
The exhibit "Food for the People: Eating and Activism in Greater Washington" on the plaza of the Anacostia Community Museum explores food justice issues in Washington, DC. The exhibit highlights the hidden processes that lead to food insecurity in the face of an overabundance of food in the US and showcases people working for a more just and sustainable food system.
Echo Park sign the story of homelessness
In 2019, in Los Angele’s Echo Park, a series of bi-lingual (English/Spanish) signs focusing on the societal conditions leading to homelessness popped up on existing park signs. The guerilla art installation - a collaboration of Exhibits of  Humanity, housing advocates, and park residents experiencing homelessness - offered supportive resources, and encouraged action by all, regardless of housing status.
Check out the sampling of new student projects on our website! The works were created by design students in Tim McNeil's Narrative Environments class University of California, Davis. Students were asked respond to the societal events that have shaped 2020 and 2021 with a design intervention inspired by Free The Museum.
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FREE THE MUSEUM is an initiative to activate the “museum experience” in the world around us, transforming everyday places into sites of engagement, reflection, healing, activism, and informal learning.

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