Digital Museum Ethics Workgroup

As museums and universities globally are tasked with providing information about their collections that is both accessible and equitable to their communities, major questions have arisen regarding the role of technology and ethics as knowledge production expands into the realms of machine learning, artificial intelligence, mass digitization platforms, and virtual reality exhibitions. 

The working group in digital museum ethics seeks to establish a set of conversations, critical readings, workshops, and–eventually–guidelines for museum ethics in both the physical and digital realms. We anticipate that the findings of this working group will explore our relationship to physical and digital artifacts as representations of a distant past that allow us to imagine ethical, inclusive futures.