Museums Can Be a Force for Social Change

Plenty of people still picture a museum as a quiet building with art on the walls and a staff whose job is to guard what's inside. Victoria Munro, Executive Director of the Alice Austen House, sees an advantage in that assumption: because museums look harmless from the outside, they have room to do serious work on social change and safe space. She explains how she took the velvet ropes down at a nationally designated site of LGBTQ+ history and built programs that turn visitors into co-creator...