Julia Gray, director of collections and research at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, will speak about the ways in which the Abbe has been building collaborative relationships with Wabanaki people and communities, leading up to the decolonization work that guides the museum today, Tuesday May 2, at 6:30 p.m. at Belfast Free Library, 106 High St. Museums in North America have been part of the colonization process since they began collecting and interpreting Native American culture in the 18th century. Decolonizing museum practice aims to confront this fact and start to reverse the negative impacts museum have had as colonial institutions.
