Representations of Self and Decolonization in Museums
This article concerns a participative museological project conducted with Indigenous representatives for the conception of the new exhibition of reference at the Museums of Civilization (Québec). It addresses some issues, challenges and limits in the strategies elaborated for developing the representations of Self and reinforcing the current decolonization process in museology. This reflection is based on the content development steps, and specifically documents the way the objects to be exposed have been chosen, the development of the speech accompanying them and the creation of the presentations devices. If the objects organize the speech in museology, who are the ones to speak through the objects in the decolonization process of the Museum practices and the valorization of the representation of Self by Indigenous Peoples ? How can the objects and reflections related to their staging in an exhibition become vectors of the museology decolonization process ?