Chicago History Museum

To build its capacity to represent and serve all Chicagoans, the Chicago History Museum will implement a multi-phase effort to identify and address bias throughout its operations. Working with a diversity and inclusion consulting firm, the museum will conduct a comprehensive audit of its workplace culture and use surveys, interviews, and focus groups to involve staff in all departments and at all levels in assessing its strengths and weaknesses in promoting an inclusive environment for employees. All staff will participate in customized training to improve their cultural competencies. The museum will integrate the resulting changes into its internal systems and processes, including adding action steps to its current strategic plan that will operationalize the institutional commitment to anti-bias work. The overall project goal is to build a foundation for a stronger anti-racism, anti-bias culture that resonates throughout the museum and into the communities it serves.