Museums, Class & the Pandemic: Report launch

The pandemic has exposed issues of social inequality and class divisions.

6.30pm – 8pm

11 Jan 2023

This report launch and panel discussion explores how museums have often overlooked working-class communities, and how they were disproportionately affected due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recent decades have witnessed growing interests in museum scholarship and practice surrounding issues of diversity, exclusion, inequality and activism. Yet, working-class communities have received less attention when compared to the wealth of work addressing issues of race, ethnicity, sexuality and gender identity, to cite a few.

In this report launch, panellists discuss findings from Inequality, Class and the Pandemic, a research and collecting project undertaken at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of the ground-breaking Curating London programme, funded by Arts Council England.

The project was collaboratively developed by London Museum and the Culture, Media and Creative Industries department, King’s College London.

You can watch a recording of the event below.

For:

Adults only

How to attend:

Hybrid (in-person or online)

Duration:

1.5 hours

Concessions:

Some concessions may be available – read our policy

Domenico Sergi

London Museum, co-author

Serena Iervolino

King’s College London, co-author

Michelle McGrath

Founder, Museum as Muck

Søren Bak-Jensen

Director, Workers Museum (Copenhagen)

Recipient of the 2022 Council of Europe Museum Prize

Recording of the discussion

Launch of the report Museums, Class and the Pandemic followed by an academic roundtable.