Marjorie Bequette

Biographic Data

ID5081424
NAMEMarjorie Bequette
GIVEN NAMESMarjorie
FAMILY NAMEBequette
SIGNATUREBEQUETTE M
AFFILIATIONSScience Museum of Minnesota
ORCID0009-0007-0076-5141
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Racial equity, reflection, and organizational change in museums

    Open AccessNoah Weeth Feinstein, Esther Hsu‐Borger et al.ARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2025

    When are equity conversations more than “just talk?” This article draws on qualitative data from two interconnected NSF‐funded studies about racial equity in museums to explore the relationship between organizational reflection and organizational change. In one study, researchers interviewed staff from 29 museums that hosted the traveling exhibition RACE: Are We So Different? In the other, staff from of the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM) used …

  • Community‐informed design: Blending community engagement and museum design approaches for sustainable experience development

    Open AccessRobby Callahan Schreiber, Megan Goeke et al.ARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2024

    The museum field currently and historically has centered on the needs of White, educated, privileged, and affluent people, and changing that reality requires new ways of conceptualizing, organizing, and assessing our core practices. Practice‐based models—including specific stories of how museums and communities work together—are still needed in our field, both as guidance for structuring future projects and as inspiration for what is possible. We…

  • Yet, it is still very White: Structural and cultural impediments to Deai change in science museums

    Georges Haupt, Marjorie Bequette et al.ARTICLEMuseum Management and Curatorship2022References: 17

    Diversity, Equity, Access and Inclusion (DEAI) work in museums is multifaceted, but typically approached from the perspective of external audiences and outcomes rather than a change in internal organizational culture. This article discusses findings from a research study examining what happened in five US science museums that were making a concerted, officially recognized effort towards internal change, and explores what those findings reveal abo…

  • On the need for expanded guidance in navigating ethical learning research at science museums

    Open AccessShannon K Mcmanimon, Lauren Causey et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Science…2020

    Science learning occurs throughout people's lives, inside and outside of school, in formal, informal, and nonformal settings. While museums have long played a role in science education, learning in this and other informal settings has not been studied nor understood as deeply as in formal settings (i.e., schools and classrooms). This position paper, written by learning researchers in a science museum engaged in equity and access work, notes that …

  • Using a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective to Illuminate the Concept of Evaluation Capacity Building in a Network

    Open AccessAmy Grack Nelson, Jean A King et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Evaluation2018Cited by: 1References: 12

    While evaluation capacity building (ECB) may hold promise for fostering evaluation, little is known about how it is operationalized within a network. This article presents initial findings from a National Science Foundation–funded research project (Complex Adaptive Systems as a Model for Network Evaluations) that used concepts from complex adaptive systems theory to develop case studies of ECB within the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Netwo…