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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
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○ Steve Biko Centre
○ Uganda Museum
○ Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art
○ Musée Théodore Monod
○ Exchanges 2021-2
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○ 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

Study Groups


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.

Steve Biko Centre

Illustration by Charity Atukunda, 2023.
Steve Biko Centre, King Williams Town, South Africa, The Steve Biko Center is dedicated to the life of the activist and intellectual Steve Biko who founded the Black Consciousness movement.
Members of the Biko study group exploring the centre's built environment, Module 2, 2021. Notes from an interview conducted by the Steve Biko Centre with the East London Museum, 2021. Notes from an interview conducted by the Steve Biko Centre with the East London Museum, 2021. Notes from an interview conducted by the Steve Biko Centre with the East London Museum, 2021. Documentation from the Steve Biko Centre study group, 2021.
Steve Biko Centre is embarking on a travelling project called ‘Museum Transformations: Integrating Other Histories’ in which the group creates a short documentary based on visits to various local museums. The documentary will showcase the interviews with the various museums and the group’s journey towards discovering how ‘other’ histories have been included in institutions.
Study group members
Bruce Waters Director, Thulani Nongogo Performing Arts Educator & Training Officer of Abelusi, Lolonga Tali is the Museum Human Scientist at the Amathole Museum, Luyanda ka Msumza, Ginsberg Community Historian, Catherine Stratford Archivist and Assistant Museum Curator at the Steve Biko Centre