Museums are Canada’s greatest stewards of public history. But in the past decade, increasingly overbearing cultural policies have rewritten their mandates. Once dedicated to simply telling the truth, they now have an agenda to push.
It’s subtle, but a lot of museums are open about it nevertheless. The federal Canadian Museum of History’s diversity, equity and inclusion plan states that it will “allocate resources strategically to bridge gaps” to “ensure better representation of equity-deserving groups.” Calgary’s Glenbow Museum announced its new land acknowledgement in September: “Blackfoot land, your territory.”
