1st Edition

Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums

Edited By Daniela Fifi Copyright 2025
124 Pages 12 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

124 Pages 12 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

124 Pages 12 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums examines the challenges faced within the field of Caribbean Museology. Museums are sites of heritage management and, within Caribbean contexts, essential spaces for the examination of postcolonial relationships to past disenfranchisement. This book helps to identify strategies within museology that can inspire meaningful collective engagement with these... Read more

SECTION I: Critical Issues in the Representation of Racial and Cultural Identities in Caribbean Museums and Global Collections; 1. Decolonising Caribbean Museum Education Curriculum through Culturally Responsive Curriculum; 2. The Role of Museums in Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in Nevis; 3. Forging Community and Cultural Identity during a Pandemic: Collection Digitisation in Haiti And Barbados; SECTION II: Critical Issues in the Repatriation of Caribbean Cultural Heritage in Caribbean Museums and Global Collections; 4. Not In My Name: Heritage Conservation, Collection Care, and Repatriation within Caribbean Collections; 5. Amerindians in the Cupboard: On the Museological Treatment of Pre-Columbian Art in the Caribbean; SECTION III: Critical Issues of Caribbean Museum Management; 6. A Tri-Partite Approach to the Development of the Museum Sector in Trinidad and Tobago

Biography

Daniela Fifi has a doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from Manchester University, UK. She is the Editor‑in‑Chief of Viewfinder E‑Journal, and served on the editorial board of Art Education, the official journal of the National Art Education Association (USA).