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Limon and Steinbock are both trained in the practice of culture analysis, a research community devoted to the comparative and interdisciplinary study of culture (in different forms and expressions) from a critical humanities perspective. While Limon works primarily as a curator and Steinbock as an academic researcher, in this conversation, they will be discussing the ways in which their work often meets and overlaps, particularly around new museological practices that have been born from activist and participatory forms of heritage-making. Their work engages with archival and museological practices in order to affirm “shadow” or subaltern knowledges. With renewed force and “outside” feedback from activist groups and grassroots organisations, Limon and Steinbock aim to reshape institutions and the narratives they tell. Taking the particular case of the “NewNarratives” programme at the Amsterdam Museum and the research program of “The Critical Visitor: Intersectional Approaches for Rethinking and Retooling Accessibility and Inclusivity in Heritage Spaces”(2022-2025) funded by the dutch research council, as starting points for their conversation, they hash out the tensions between professional applied knowledge, and “emergent-“ or “community-knowledge”. How can initiatives in the Dutch cultural sector become more intersectional, in the sense of developing multi-issue approaches to inclusion and accessibility?