Abstract
In 2018, the Michigan State University Museum partnered with survivors and allies impacted by the most extensive sexual abuse scandal in the history of North American higher education. Through a community co-curation process, survivors and allies developed detailed the experiences of survivors and documenting institutional failure and complicity. The exhibition highlighted works of art created by sister survivors exploring their healing journeys. These exhibition development efforts were an experimental process of restorative future-making, through which many survivors and allies, including museum personnel, gradually envisioned what a productive future might look like. Bringing together scholars, museum professionals, and community co-curators who are themselves sister survivors to the crisis, this chapter may model other future-oriented partnerships developed in response to traumatic injury.
