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MuseumFutures


MuseumFutures Africa is a people-centered cultural project focussed on museums. It began with a focus on Africa, and expanded its reach to museums across the Global South, with the intention to test, explore and study potentials for new formats of Southern museology.

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 ○ Arna Jharna Thar Desert Museum
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○ MajiMaji Museum
○ Acervo de Laje
○ Museu Mafalala
○ Exchanges 2023
○ Musée National de Guinée
○ National Museums of Kenya
○ Steve Biko Centre
○ Uganda Museum
○ Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art
○ Musée Théodore Monod
○ Exchanges 2021-2
● Resources
○ Southern Museology
○ Towards a depiction of ... the experimental / colonial museum
○ Dialogues
○ MFA publication 2022
○ Curriculum 2023
○ Curriculum 2021
○ Notes toward a proposal


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MuseumFutures is supported by the     Goethe-Institut
Giant tree on the outskirts of the Musée National Guinée, Conakry, 2021. Circa 1950's, Uganda Museum from the museum archives. Members of the Musée Guinée study group during a session exploring the Museum Environment, 2021. Vilma Soares and Jose Eduardo Ferreira Santos, founders of the Acervo da Laje house museum, 2023. Alumni member Betty Karanja addresses the MuseumsLab group, as we contribute to a cross pollination of museum projects, 2023. Uganda Museum prototype adaption of a ubiquitous paraffin lamp, 2021. Historical image of the Uganda Museum under construction, Video still from the Uganda Museum video tour, 2021. Out in the Field with the Mutare Museum Study Group in Chimanimani District, Zimbabwe, 2023. Collective Care at the Arna Jharna Museum in Rajasthan, renewing the roof structure on the museum compound, 2023. This note from the Acervo da Laje study group talks about ‘crossroads of memory’ - ‘between times’, 2023 The Conflictorium Study Group in the train about to begin a collective journey to experience an arts and theatre festival in South India together, 2023. Steve Biko Centre study group walkabout in the centre premises, Module 2, 2021. Behind the scenes, Ambedkar proliferates in the Conflictorium, Ahmedabad, 2023. A listening session at the Mafalala Museum, where the study group is conducting research on the neighbourhood's cultural history, 2023. A breeze whispers through the trees as the sun sets in Rajasthan, India An outtake of one of the permanent displays in the Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art tour, conducted by the museum tour-guide, April 2021. Welcoming arches at the Maji Maji museum, Songea, Tanzania. National Museums of Kenya study group session from Module 2, 2021. A drawing that inspired the museumfutures model, created by the team of practitioners who proposed the MuseumFutures project, 2019. Learners exploring the ethnographic displays at the Uganda Museum, 2021. Martine Sara from the Musée Guinée study group on a tour of the exhibitions, Musee Guinee museum tour video, 2021. Study groups lift off!, Project Office doodle, 2021. Still from the Uganda Museum video tour, part of the ethnographic collection. 2021. Local Markets in Mutare, MuseumFutures Exchange programme between Mutare Museum and Conflictorium Museum, October 2023. Uganda Museum study group members during a session, Module 1, 2021. Christopher Ssebuyungo in a group session, Uganda Museum, Module 3, 2021. Three members of the National Museums of Kenya at work in a study group session, Module 1, 2021. Workshop notes created during a Uganda Museum's study group session, Module 2, 2021. Screenshot from the second group reflection meeting with the Steering Committee and all 6 museum partners, August 2021. Asma Diakite from Goethe Institut Joburg in rapt attention at the Mafalala Museum in Maputo, Mozambique, 2023. Traditional Mandana on a Mud Wall of the Arna Jharna Desert Museum, 2023. The Conflictorium is space in which to recognise the frictions and structural violences that shape our societies, as well as honour the humanity at work in the everyday, 2023. Notes from the Steve Biko Centre Study Group's research project: conversation with the East London Museum, Module 3, 2021. The Musée Guinée study group on an exploratory journey around the museum precinct, Module 2, 2021. Maintainance of the ground at Arna Jharna Museum, Rajasthan, 2023. Walking through the grounds of the National Museum of Kenya's Nairobi Museum, Nairobi, 2021.





MuseumFutures


MuseumFutures Africa is a people-centered cultural project focussed on museums. It began with a focus on Africa, and expanded its reach to museums across the Global South, with the intention to test, explore and study potentials for new formats of Southern museology.

Use the menu at top right to read more about MuseumFutures, to view the study groups of participating museums, or to make use of the resources produced through the project.

Illustration by prachi joshi for ‘Towards a depiction of ... the future museum / the colonial museum’, 2024