The Museum of Impact (MOI) is a proposed social justice museum that will provide interactive exhibits and programming to educate visitors about important social issues and inspire civic engagement. Over five years, MOI plans to host rotating exhibits on topics like civil rights, the environment, disability rights, and more. Exhibits will include interactive elements, multimedia components, and art installations to immerse visitors in each topic. MOI aims to connect people to social causes and foster understanding and positive social change.

1. A SOCIAL
CHANGE
WONDERLAND
THE STRATEGY & MAKINGS OF
MUSEUM OF IMPACT
Monica O. Montgomery – Founder
Museum Management
Fall 2013. New York University

2. AFFILIATIONS
MOI is an Interdisciplinary Social Justice Museum. These are Proposed Memberships /Accreditations

3. INTERACTIVE WEBSITE
The MOI website is participatory and challenges viewers to react
and share via a visceral reaction to visitors facial expressions from
around the world. The public is encouraged to upload their
image with 3 different faces for others to ponder.

4. MARKETING
"It is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit,
and a tribute to the future of solutions and social
change” Anonymous Visitor
Museum of Impact connects everyday people to
powerful ideas, issues and intentional community.
We facilitate live experiences and foster virtual
interest to weave a stronger social fabric of inspired
action.
We curate culture, catalyze change and create
emotional resonance around civic issues and
community vision. We are the touchstone of charity
community and change.

5. CURATORIAL & PROGRAMMATIC THEMES
Decorative Arts Center of Ohio, Lancaster
Social Justice / Responsibility
Technology & Design
Environment & Sustainability
Perception & Psychology
Human & Civil Rights
Privilege & Perspective
Power & Intentionality
Civic engagement
Altruism & Charity
Difference & Ability
Volunteerism & Service
Coalitions, Community, Charity
Oppression & Access
Connections, Divergences
Enabling & Symbiosis
A cause minded hub for everyone to explore civic context,
experience social justice and engage in community uplift.

6. LAUNCH - EXHIBITS YEAR 1
Akron Art Museum
WISDOM PROJECT
Inspired by the idea that one of the greatest gifts one generation can
give to another is the wisdom it has gained from experience, multi-
award-winning photographer and filmmaker Andrew Zuckerman has
recorded the thoughts and ideas of more than fifty of the world's
most prominent writers, artists, designers, actors, politicians, musicians,
and religious and business leaders--all over sixty-five years old, i.e.
Nelson Mandela. To create profound, honest, and truly revealing
portraits of these luminaries, Zuckerman has captured their voices,
their physical presence, and their written words.

7. GRANDMOTHER POWER!
Activist grandmothers are using their power to fight for a
better future for grandchildren everywhere. For the first time
in history, grandmothers around the world are campaigning
universally and vigorously for political, economic and social
justice. And they are succeeding. There are more
grandmothers in the world today than ever before. They are
younger, healthier, better educated, and better off than they
have ever been. They are energetic and effective and they
are modeling important lessons of collaboration, generosity,
patience, perseverance and resilience.

8. Akron Art Museum
DO GOOD GREENWOOD
Exhibition celebrating the 175th anniversary of Green-
Wood Cemetery at the Cooper Union. Showcasing a
selection of philanthropists who are interred at Green
Wood Cemetery as an effort to further the philosophical
notion of altruism.
GROUND ZERO 360
Witness the startling aftermath of one of the most
tragic events in American history – seeing what they
saw, hearing the stories they heard and meeting the
people they met. Through harrowing visuals,
heartbreaking “missing posters” and a unique
panoramic installation, Ground Zero 360 invites you
to step into the past and feel what eight million New
Yorkers were feeling in the days that followed the
attacks. Visitors will hear previously unreleased
emergency radio calls, and touch a fragment of
twisted steel I-beam and broken granite from the
World Trade Center. Ground Zero 360 allows the
onlooker to experience the enduring events of
September 11th and celebrate the tremendous
courage and dignity of a nation under fire.

9. EXHIBITS YEAR 2
A World WithoutenTitle: How You See Me.
The legend, myth, identity and lore of our natural selves
Descriptions. Assumptions. Stereotypes. Iconoclasts
If you took a photograph depicting a world
without prisons, what would it look like? The U.S.
is a prison nation. There is no other society in the
history of humanity that has imprisoned more
people. Over 2.2 million people are incarcerated in
this country. Yet research and anecdotal evidence
show that incarceration makes people worse and
does not improve public safety. This is not justice.
Nor is it humane. We believe that this must change.
We have to envision what a world without prison
can and should look like so that we can build that
world together. Through this exhibit which brings
together the visions of incarcerated youth and
people on the outside, we want to engage the
public in imagining a world without prisons.

10. MOI would have several audio stations and tablets filled with
video lectures, ebooks and musical performances. We would
routinely program whimsy, joyful and fun activities that have
creative flourishes. This NYC busking band the Drumatics would
perform at our launch or fundraisers to liven up the energy.

11. Everybody Needs Somebody
Aging-Out of Foster Care Project exhibits and publishes the images and stories of former foster
youth in our area who have experienced “aging-out” for themselves. We believe in the power
of storytelling to inspire thoughtful conversation and lasting change. Facts and statistics just
don’t cut it, what we are doing is putting a story, a name, and a face to untold stories. A
photography show will introduce children, families, and educators on Long Island to the
diversity of youth aging out of the foster care system in NYC and Long Island through large
format photographic prints. There will be interactive 3D elements to introduce young kids to
foster care, adoption, and multi-race family units. We hope to spark conversations about
alternative family structures and the concept that not all children have someone to call mom or
dad, grandma or grandpa. We will include QR codes to accompany many of the images so
that older museum-goers can read the more detailed stories and see more images from the
project. The QR codes enable us to have two exhibitions in one: a child-friendly version, and
one that enables older teens, tweens, parents, and educators to delve more deeply into each
young adult’s story

12. Decorative Arts Center of Ohio, Lancaster
Akron Art Museum
Immersive Textured Environment * Low Lighting
Dramatic Entryway
Nature Inspired Wayfinding Kiosks
MUSEUM OF IMPACT AESTHETIC
Large Scale Murals Permanent Gallery
Street View

13. 5 EXHIBITS FOR 5 YEARS
Akron Art Museum
MALALA
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban for
promoting education for girls, called on world leaders to provide
free compulsory schooling for every child in a U.N. address on
Friday timed to coincide with her 16th birthday. Speaking to youth
leaders from more than 100 countries, she called for “a global
struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism. Let us pick up our
books and our pens,” she said. “They are our most powerful
weapons. One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can
change the world. Education is the only solution.” Experience a
timeline interactive exhibit about her life, her values, her courage.

14. Akron Art Museum
OutSpoken : Sisters Speaking Truth to Power
Showcasing a remarkable collection of artworks, this
exhibition aims to increase awareness of the economic,
political, environmental and social impact of the finding
the courage to be heard. having a sense of agency and
collective responsibility to defend and uphold your truth,
your way, in your voice. Emerging from a diversity of issues
from fair trade coffee, to public art, to positive media
images, to the need for people of color to be equally
represented; The women featured in this show have each
given a personal quote, and an artifact that represents
their movement, and sing a song that resonates with us all.
The Endangered Species: A Visual Response to the Vanishing Black Man.
Against the backdrop of exquisite beauty, this show interrogates masculinity, sexuality, slavery, vanity, mental poverty and the
futility of aspiration. Each piece is a riotous installation—a visual treasure hunt. Bespoke top hats, gilded icons, and ancient
timepieces knit together with vibrant butterflies, luscious flowers, and florid peacock eyes to tell the story of black folk. These
collages in three-dimension represent archeology of black America—Welch’s tribute to a dying race. “From within a fields of
color and metaphor, black men lookout—beautiful but without hope-vanishing.” To tell the truth is noble, but to evoke it—
that’s art.

15. RACE: Are We So Different?
We all know that people look different. Throughout history, those differences have been a source of strength, community and
personal identity. They have also been the basis for discrimination and oppression. RACE: Are We So Different? helps visitors
understand what race is and what it is not. The exhibit explores three themes giving visitors tools to recognize racial ideas
and practices in contemporary American life.
 the everyday experience of race
 the contemporary science that is challenging common ideas about race
 the history of this idea in the United States
God Center : Reflections on the Meaning of Life
This exhibit is starting a conversation and fostering tolerance
and understanding between people of divergent faiths and
views. Featuring a holistic analysis of ideologies and
milestones of spiritual collaboration that has tackled social
issues, exploring themes of Spirituality, theology. piety, alms,
forgiveness, guilt, loyalty, afterlife. Quotes about Love,
sacrifice, living well, edicts, scriptures, prayers from all major
world religions
will be inscribed
a cylindrical
prayer wheel
that is tactile.
Visitors can add
their own quotes
surahs, mantras
and reflections
to a ‘Wisdom
Wall’.

16. MOI JR. / CHILDRENS MUSEUM
There will be plenty of colorful, whimsical spaces that encourage children to play, and have fun

17. BRAINSTORMING GARDEN &
CREATIVE GENIUS LOUNGES
We encourage members of the public to have meetings, TedTalks, Pecha Kucha’s, Seminars, Teach In’s and
create in our space. Our gardens, lounges and atriums will be well appointed, Zen like and full of moxie.

18. BRAINSTORMING GARDEN &
CREATIVE GENIUS LOUNGES

19. MUSEUM GIFT SHOP
Marketing
Museum Store & Retail Sales
Colorful, Bright, Fun playful, light filled
objects with sustainable certification, or a
percentage of proceeds
donated to
charitable causes
family friendly gifts
and places to rest.

20. ENTRYWAY PERMANENT EXHIBIT
SEPIA GREEN
Exploring the intersectionality of human consumptions,
natures resilience, the implied tensions of industrialization
vs eco sustainability and the biosphere that encases us all.

21. MUSEUM ENTRYWAY & PLACEMAKING
MOI will have striking, bold modern architectural features, to engage and command attention.
Winding Stairway
Front Desk & Foyer with Upstanders
etched in Wall Art : Mandela, Ghandi,
Marcus Garvey, MLK, Dorothy Height,
Mary McLeod Bethune, Malcolm X,
Desmond Tutu, Mother Theresa, Ruby
Dee, Bono, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman,
Paul Robeson etc.
Columns' of Good
Reads. Visitors
can pull one out
and read in our
library for as long
as they like.

22. JOIN US MOI FOR OUR LAUNCH
@ BAM CULTRAL ARTS DISTRICT. BROOKLYN
MLK WEEKEND 2014
Calling all Upstanders, Active Citizens, Change Makers, Do
Gooder, Students, Professionals, Retirees, Millennials, Academics.
Everyone from all walks of Life are Welcome. Like us on
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Museum of Impact = Social Change Wonderland!