ABSTRACT Through their collection and exhibition practices, art museums around the world are active agents in the processes of national memory-making that silence and racialize certain individual and group identities As museums reopen in the wake of Covid19 closures and amid the global protests for social justice and racial equality, there is renewed urgency for institutions to do more than stage dominant narratives of nationhood, identity, and citizenship under the guise of detached commemorative hosts. Using visual art from the National Gallery of Canada’s permanent collection as a case study, this article applies an analytic framework to situate and explore dominant and conflicting constructions of national identity, communicated in a national museum. In doing so, it suggests that national narrative frameworks have much to offer critical approaches in the art museum that support renewed calls from scholars and activists, to upend hierarchies, multiply voices, and become bold new spaces for social advocacy and decolonization.

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令人不安的民族叙事和多元化的声音：艺术博物馆作为社会倡导和非殖民化的新空间——加拿大案例研究

摘要 通过他们的收藏和展览实践，世界各地的艺术博物馆成为国家记忆过程中的积极推动者，使某些个人和群体身份沉默和种族化随着博物馆在 Covid19 关闭后和在全球抗议社会正义的情况下重新开放和种族平等，机构再次迫切需要做更多的事情，而不仅仅是以超然的纪念东道主的名义上演有关国家、身份和公民身份的主流叙事。本文以加拿大国家美术馆永久收藏的视觉艺术作为案例研究，应用分析框架来定位和探索在国家博物馆中传播的国家认同的主导和冲突结构。在这样做，