In  Museum Metamorphosis,  over forty cultural innovators and changemakers in contemporary art share strategies for building sociocultural relevancy and responsiveness in museums. Representing diverse perspectives from across the entire arts and culture ecosystem, the book offers tools to reshape museums into collaborative platforms for collective impact and social change. Part One features seven roundtables in which practitioners discuss best practices for dismantling barriers to entry and building reciprocal, sustained engagement with diverse constituencies. Part Two documents four case studies in structured collaboration, prompting museums to invest in both hyperlocal relationships and cross-sector partnerships. And Part Three features four interviews with thought leaders who discuss how to shift equity from a measure of compliance to a vital daily practice of organizational accountability and sustainability. Compiled during a moment of heightened social action, cultural transformation, and institutional critique,  Museum Metamorphosis  considers and responds to the following prompts: how will museums learn to embrace real-time change and adapt to meet the evolving needs of a rapidly shifting sociopolitical landscape? How can this metamorphosis open new pathways for engagement and encourage museums to meet more audiences where they are? And, how might reconstituting the essential DNA of the museum recalibrate the power dynamics between communities and institutions, producing a sustainable model for engaged cultural citizenship? In addressing these questions , Museum Metamorphosis looks to innovation transpiring beyond the museum echo chamber and lays bare both the opportunities and challenges of adopting new ways of working. It dares readers to identify their respective position within the social change ecosystem, and empowers them with tools to reorient their work towards cultural equity and social justice. "Museum Metamorphosis should be required reading for anyone interested in transforming institutions of all types, to make them more just, more equitable, and above all, more effective. wheadon and her interlocutors—some of the most vital thinkers, makers, and doers in the art world—offer up not a series of solutions, but a series of provocations, examples, and observations about how the museum can shed its role as cultural gatekeeper and become instead a nexus for creativity and cultural citizenship. It's a beautiful vision of what could be, and a challenge to all of us, no matter our place in the art world, to make it happen." - Aruna D'Souza, Author of Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts CONTRIBUTORS: Jordan Casteel, Shaun Leonardo, Miguel Luciano, Lina Puerta, Deborah Berke, Mario Gooden, Maitland Jones, Eric Guy Booker, Maren Hassinger, Kendal Henry, Diya Vij, Jamaica Gilmer, Kemi Ilesanmi, Shani Peters, Chayanne Marcano, David Rue, Lauren Argentina Zelaya, Ryan N. Dennis, Vashti DuBois, Lauren Kelley, Jasmine Wahi, Shawnda Chapman, Ruby Lerner, Melissa Cowley Wolf, Elia Alba, Tina M. Campt, Connie H. Choi, Leslie Hewitt, Shanta Lawson, Dr. Dawn Brooks DeCosta, Kyle Williams, Nisa Mackie, Alexandra Nicome, Victoria Sung, Juliana Rowen Barton, Michelle Millar Fisher, Zoë Greggs, Gabriella Nelson, Amber Winick, Nicole Ivy, Ariana A. Curtis, PhD, DéLana R.A. Dameron and Sandra Jackson-Dumont nico wheadon is an independent art advisor, curator, educator, and writer based in New Haven, CT. Through her consultancies, she delivers cultural strategy to artist-entrepreneurs, cultural institutions, government agencies, and philanthropic foundations. She's supported museums in developing strategic plans and mounting landmark exhibitions and programs; foundations and funders on deepening their support of individual artists and culturally specific nonprofits; and artist-entrepreneurs on strategic planning, business development, and start-up operations. Her approach is informed by her unique perspective as a practitioner working across both the nonprofit and commercial sectors. nico is a visiting critic at the Yale School of Art and adjunct professor at Hartford Art School, and formerly held teaching positions at Brown University and Barnard College. In recent posts, nico served as Inaugural Executive Director of NXTHVN (2019-2020); Inaugural Director of Public Programs and Community Engagement at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2014-2019); Curatorial Director of Rush Arts Gallery (2007-2010); and Curatorial Assistant at The Studio Museum in Harlem (2006-2007). nico holds an MA in Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship from Goldsmiths, University of London (2011), and a BA in Art-Semiotics from Brown University (2006).