The Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington is earning some national recognition.
The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) awarded the museum two Excellence in Label Writing Awards.
The award-winning labels were community contributions written by African American leaders in Wilmington. They were responding to photographs in the 2018 exhibition Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement.
She says the awards show the growing value the museum places on sharing community reflections and encouraging personal connections with works of art:
“I think it’s part of the larger push for the Museum to focus on its audience, be inclusive to its local communities, recognize the values of multiple different kinds of interpretation of what visitors bring to a work of art and the meanings they make with the works of art.”
Wiggins notes surveys show museum visitors increasingly value opportunities to learn from fellow community members.
She notes community-created content is now an interpretive strategy the Museum regularly uses - and will again this year as it plans for a major reinstallation of its first floor galleries.
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