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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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Museum Futures Southern Museology’s aimed to nurture an imaginative collective process driven by 6 different museums in Africa, India and Brazil. Scroll down or use the menu for an overview of each museum, some of their core institutional concerns, their study groups, and a custom illustration by Kampala-based artist Charity Atukunda.

Musée National Guinée

Illustration by Charity Atukunda, 2023.
The National Museum of Guinea houses a collection of local objects that represent the country's different ethnic groups. Religious artifacts as well as art and everyday objects are exhibited.
‘what do we make of the gap, the distance, between the space that objects are made in and the museum space in which they end up?’, a Musee Guinee study group member shares an object, called a Louche, from the museum collection, 2021. One of the objects to be digitised from the Koundara collection that the Musee Guinee is working with for their project, 2021. One of the objects to be digitised from the Koundara collection that the Musee Guinee is working with for their project, 2021.

Musée National Guinée  digitised an existing exhibition, consisting of images, artefacts and texts, about the Koundara community in the north of Guinee. This is a minority community which has a small demographic and prolific cultural production which the museum wants to celebrate. It also utilised diverse community participation methods.


Study group members 
Mr. Moustapha Diawara is currently the Deputy Director General of the National Museum of Guinea, Mr. Boubacar Diallo is head of the Inventory and Collection Department at the Musee National de Guinee, Mr. M'Bemba Deen Ciss has been the head of the collections unit at the National Museum of Guinean Art since 2008, Mrs Martine Sarah has a degree in Administration and Management of Cultural Institutions from the Institut Supérieur de l'Education de Guinée in 2012, Ms Fatoumata Coumbassa has been an animator at the National Museum of Guinea since 2015, Mr. Ismailou Balde holds a PhD in Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Milan Bicocca (2020) and is a Research Teacher in Cultural and Social Anthropology; Didactician and Andragogue, Mr. Dolfo Diamriou Camara is a retired teacher, Mr. Souleymane Keita is a teacher and researcher, lecturer in Cultural Monography and Anthropology at the Institut Superieur des arts Mory Kant (ISAMK), Mr Mamoudou Conde is currently Head of the Physical Heritage Division of the National Directorate of Historical Heritage of Guinea, Ms Salmatou Bangoura is a visual artist, involved in painting, contemporary sculpture, interior and exterior decoration.