Museums Are...? Making Museums Matter
By Korantema Anyimadu, 2021
Fellow’s Profile
Fellow’s Profile
Museums are...? Making museums matter
Engaging more diverse audiences in museums through community work and special events
2015
London
I work as the Community Manager at Arts Emergency – a social justice charity and network that helps young under-represented people access the creative and cultural industries. I am also a freelance creative producer and curator.
My work focuses on home, identity, justice and storytelling, and I work closely with local communities and young people across heritage and the arts. In 2019 my exhibition exploring afro hair, Black women, femmes and non-binary people won a Making History Award from the Mayor of London and was featured in the Migration Museum.
The main topics of my Fellowship were museums, galleries, inclusion and community engagement. I looked at the barriers keeping people away from heritage institutions as well as the places that were doing ground-breaking work. At the time of my Fellowship, I was at the start of my career in the cultural sector. Afterwards, I went on to study an MA in Cultural Heritage at UCL and implemented my learnings in my community-engagement work in museums and galleries across the UK.
By Korantema Anyimadu, 2021
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