Museum Experience Lab

Our main goal is to define a shared UCLA-MSU museums initiative that inspires a new generation of museum professionals to be great curators, storytellers, designers, facilitators, and community partners. We are interviewing dozens of thought leaders across academic disciplines and industries to define this university collaboration that centers museums and community engaged work. The deliverables of museum experience lab are:

• Report summarizing our interviews with museum professionals, philanthropists, religious leaders, technologists, journalists, artists, activists, and community members on the future of museums

• Digital curriculum based on these interviews, focusing on ethics and museum leadership, shared ownership models, repatriation, and community partnerships

• Proposal for a UCLA-Morgan State University museums initiative that brings together faculty, students and staff across the social sciences and thought leaders in entertainment industries.

Museum experience lab builds upon lessons learned in the following projects:

• Art, Religion, and Cities

• Betting on Hope: Black Baltimore and the Work of 2020

• The Good Life Project

• Vital Matters/ Art. Devotion. Practice