Museums, Moralities and Human Rights

This book explores how museums, galleries and heritage sites of all kinds, through the narratives they construct and publicly present, shape the moral and political climate within which human rights are negotiated and experienced. Through a series of richly-drawn cases which focus on gender diversity and same-sex love, Sandell examines the ways in which museums are implicated in the ongoing struggle for LGBTI rights. Offering new insights into how human rights are continually fought...
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This book explores how museums, galleries and heritage sites of all kinds, through the narratives they construct and publicly present, shape the moral and political climate within which human rights are negotiated and experienced. Through a series of richly-drawn cases which focus on gender diversity and same-sex love, Sandell examines the ways in which museums are implicated in the ongoing struggle for LGBTI rights. Offering new insights into how human rights are continually fought for, realised and refused, this volume makes the case for museums of all kinds to take up an active, mindful and purposive engagement with contemporary human rights concerns.