The Queering the Museum (QTM) Project was a short-term, coordinated intervention into representations of LGBT/Q* people in museums. The project is no longer active, and we preserve this site as an archive of the work. Our goal was for QTM to facilitate critical dialogues between community members and museum practitioners, addressing the role that museums play in forming social norms around gender and sexuality.  We conceptualize QTM as an evolving project that works in collaboration with community members and organizations, facilitating and connecting projects that further these goals.

We focused on museums due to their ability to shape and define the communities in which we live. QTM believes that museums have a responsibility to account for the role played in constructing normalized ideas of race, gender and sexuality. We seek to educate and facilitate reflections about this role, connecting museum professionals and community members through a variety of activities. QTM’s supported projects focus on the museum as a venue for exploring these questions and ideas at the institutional, community and individual levels.