Seattle Art Museum

The Seattle Art Museum will strengthen and support its staff by establishing a new organizational structure in the museum. Building on a previous IMLS grant to improve access to careers in the museum, this phase will address and dismantle barriers to career advancement within the museum. Project activities include collecting and analyzing data to understand the museum’s current structure and identifying persistent practices that create barriers to advancement. Learning and growth opportunities for staff include training to develop equity skills and awareness as well as holding staff listening circles and creating a new evidence-based equitable institutional structure. The project will help build an organizational culture that is inclusive and welcoming to all museum staff.