Thinking Through the Museum

09/01/2026

Congrats to TTTM's Children's Museology cluster for the launch of the exhibition "Young Voices, Big Visions" at the Cape Town Museum of Childhood!

This exhibition is the result of a week-long Curators Camp in partnership with the Childrens Movement, where youth members were taught about exhibitions/curating and were given the agency to come up with the exhibition title, introduction, and to decide what to include and how to display it.

“Children are knowledge holders. A lot of people don’t recognise that they are, but they have a lot of knowledge. Their perspectives I think are really important, and I think they’re also really good at curating. Children are actually curating things all the time. They often are arranging their belongings in careful and thoughtful ways,” - Dr. Monica Patterson (Co-Investigator, TTTM).

An exhibition curated by 25 children from the Children's Movement gives young people agency at Cape Town's Museum of Childhood until 20 August.

08/27/2026

Love Medicine, curated by Métis art historian and TTTM/Museum Queeries Co-Investigator Dr. Michelle McGeough at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, creates a space of recognition, affirmation, and community for 2Spirit and Indigiq***r peoples.

Bringing together the work of approximately 22 Indigenous 2SLGBTQIA+ artists across generations and regions, the exhibition explores love as a powerful force for healing, belonging, resilience, identity, and collective care.

In June, members of Museum Queeries travelled to Regina for the opening of Love Medicine. In this post, they share their reflections on the exhibition, the works that resonated with them, and the conversations they carried home.

Swipe through to hear their reflections, and learn more about Love Medicine and Museum Queeries through the link in our bio.

Love Medicine, curated by Métis art historian and TTTM/Museum Queeries Co-Investigator Dr. Michelle McGeough at the Mackenzie Art Gallery (Regina), aims to create a space of recognition and community, offering an artistic embrace in response to the historical traumas inflicted by the settler nation-state on 2Spirit/Indigiq***r bodies.

This exhibition is founded on the belief that love, expressed through artistic acts, is a powerful force for healing and affirmation. It features approximately 22 Indigenous 2SLGBTQIA+ artists whose works touch on various time periods and regions, and explore love as healing, community and belonging, affirmation and embrace, and resilience and identity.

On June 11th, 2026, Museum Queeries members travelled to Regina to attend the opening of the exhibition. Below are their reflections on how the exhibition impacted them.

Image: Michelle McGeough in front of Love Medicine exhibition introduction

Photo credit: Angela Failler

“The Love Medicine exhibition reveals the tenacious power of the Two-Spirit, trans, and q***r Indigenous creative community. Through this, curator Michelle McGeough has demonstrated her ongoing commitment to Two-Spirit people, from community consultation, to choosing artworks that truly speak to Two-Spirit experiences, to dynamic accompanying programming. At the opening, Dene drag queen Chelazon L

08/18/2026

TTTM's fifth and final minority artists' residency at Polin Museum in Warsaw has concluded! Matthew Mackenzie (Métis), and his wife Mariya Khomutova, a Ukrainian and New Canadian performer and writer, travelled to Poland to join FestivALT co-founder and current Co-Director Michael Rubenfeld, a Canadian Jew who now resides in Krakow, in the initial development of a collaborative, personal piece titled “Postmemory of Ethnocide”.

Read more at the link below.

Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN w Warszawie

08/13/2026

Museum Queeries and Thinking Through the Museum team member Dr. Michelle McGeough gives a virtual tour of Love Medicine.

07/28/2026

07/26/2026

President directs interior department to display signs outside museum that accuse institution of inaccuracy

07/17/2026

Hear more from Angela Failler and Heather Milne about their new book! (Google the show to listen) ✨✨✨

07/15/2026

Thrilled to announce the first of our TTTM volumes to appear in our book series "Exhibiting Theory” with Jagiellonian / Columbia University Press !! Big congrats to all the editors and contributing authors 🌟🌟🌟

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
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This book explores Two-Spirit and LGBTTQ* contributions to and interventions in museums and museum studies, both as a means of addressing structural exclusio... | CUP