Reflections on a Transformative Journey by Alumna Onyinye Nwokeocha
Onyinye reflects on her experience at TheMuseumsLab 2024, visiting museums and heritage sites in Germany, Namibia, and Ghana. Through lectures, field visits, and cross-cultural collaboration, she explores how museums can serve as platforms for storytelling, advocacy, and healing, and how these insights influence her professional practice.
Residency Insights: Connecting Norway, Hungary and Uganda
Follow the experience of two TheMuseumsLab Fellows during their Residency at the Glomdal Museum in Norway, captured in a joint reflection with their host.
Looking back at TheMuseumsLab 2024 by Alumnus Eliabu Sadock Mbonimpa
Follow Eliabu as he explores museums in Accra and Berlin, engages with peers from Africa and Europe, and reflects on heritage, collections, and collaborative approaches in museum practice.
Pauline reflects on her experiences at TheMuseumsLab 2024, from visiting heritage sites in Ghana and Wales to engaging with African and European peers on decolonisation, restitution, and sustainable heritage practices.
Reimagining Museums: A Journey through Ghana’s Cultural Heart
Hosted by the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board, the final module of TheMuseumsLab 2024 brought Fellows to key heritage sites across Ghana, creating space for exchange on restitution, community engagement, and the future of museum practice. Explore more in this written and video reflection produced by the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board.
During the MuseumsLab 2022 project session in Cape Town the team came up with a Project on the Dolls of Good Hope. The project was symbolic as it covered a topic that cuts across the countries represented in the group. The countries represented included those from all the 4 regions of the Africa continent (West, East, North and South). Germany was also present giving the team a trans-continental perspective.
On the Surface: Zooarchaeology, Photography and Provenance Research as a Collaborative Process | Alumni Project
In 2022, the On the Surface project was born out of an African-European museum exchange between three professionals who met during Module 2 of TheMuseumsLab in Berlin.
“Disrupting Restitution” was born out of a team project that started during TheMuseumsLab 2022 edition. "We came together due to our shared interest in and frustration with current debates and approaches to restitution. As a diverse group of African and European specialists and practitioners from various backgrounds (museum education, exhibitions, provenance research, policy, heritage management, etc.) we identified and discussed some of the main challenges that face those working on this contentious and complex topic."
