This article explores experiential art curriculum from a critical feminist, crip and decolonial lens. Situated within the disciplines of critical museology and contemporary curatorial practice, this study reflects on a particular museological assignment that challenged college students to think critically about their museum experience at the US Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs and to become active museum visitors. In doing so, students demonstrated generative critiques of nationalistic discourse in the museum, as well as best practices for future curatorial work. They also identified access scaffolding and technological innovation. Reflecting on this pedagogical exercise and the students’ research findings, the article considers embodied engagements with visual culture, curatorial ethics and museological responsibilities from the perspective(s) of students and museum visitors and from a museum studies scholar and educator.
Ellyn Walker (Sun,) studied this question.