ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to alter the trend through presenting a detailed, grounded research of collaborative museum practice. It explores how a collaborative approach to exhibition-making allows the traditionally marginalised group to gain control over their representation in mainstream cultural institutions, thus actively contributing to shifting public attitudes towards non-normative gendered identities. The chapter reflects upon museums' collaborative endeavours in the area of exhibition making. It explains debates around trans representation in mainstream media. The chapter contributes to the debate surrounding heritage collaborative practice through moving the focus from the 'output' of a collaborative process to the process itself. It shows that museums can be transformed from heritage institutions that carry out and disseminate research conducted in seclusion towards some that work collaboratively with communities. Gendered Intelligence works primarily with the trans community, offering support particularly to trans young people and their families and running arts programmes, creative workshops and trans youth sessions for trans people.
