A Shared Commitment

Manetti Shrem Museum's Diversity, Equity, Accessibility and Inclusion Mission

We make an ongoing commitment to confront systemic racism in the Manetti Shrem Museum’s culture and practices by understanding the fraught history of museums and breaking down barriers to diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion.

Our Ongoing Shared Commitment in 2023 and Beyond

January 2023

In 2020, the Manetti Shrem Museum made a commitment: “To create lasting change, we commit to looking deep within ourselves and working in partnership with our community, not just now but beyond the moment in the days, months and years ahead.” Increased politicization and weaponization of race and identity continues to threaten our society and personal well-being. Now, in 2023, the Manetti Shrem Museum staff reaffirms our ongoing commitment to the work of dismantling structural racism — in all of its guises.

As an arts and educational institution, one of the museum’s most fundamental purposes is to create space for dialogue, raise up voices that need to be heard, and promote the free and civil exchange of ideas. The museum has examined every aspect of its operations to better understand the structural racism that has been inherent in our institution and made significant changes during the past two years. We are committed to looking critically at how we can do better as allies and upstanders.

With so much more work to be done to create an inclusive community that upholds the ideals of diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion, our Statement of Commitment is more relevant than ever as we each strive to embody the change we want to see realized in our museum and in the world.