Citizen Curators had two goals, to diversify the voices that interpret museum collections, and to be a credible start of an alternative pathway into museum work. Underlying these goals were the main causes of exclusion from curatorial opportunity that I had identified while establishing the Rural Diversity Network, namely, time and cost, particularly of travel.| Curatorial Research Centre
Community, engagement, co-curation are all interchangeable ideas with strong resonance in the international museum sector. These ideas are challenging the very notion of what a museum is, and for whose benefit they exist. This is the first in a series of articles that reveals the findings of four years of action research underpinning the Citizen Curators Programme 2017-21.| Curatorial Research Centre