TheMuseumsLab 2021: Kick-Off Event

TheMuseumsLab is a platform for joint learning, exchange and continuing education on the future of museums in both Africa and Germany. The aim is also to establish close and lasting networks between future shapers of museum concepts on both sides.

Find below the programme of the kick-off event as well as further information about the project.

Introduction TheMuseumsLab

Karen Taylor, Moderator and Chair of European Network against racism (ENAR)

Welcome

• Heiko Maas, Foreign Minister, Federal Foreign Office, Germany
• Joybrato Mukherjee, President of the DAAD
• Johannes Vogel, Director General of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
• Carsten Busch, President of the University of Applied Sciences Berlin
• Facil Tesfaye, Deputy Chairperson, The Advisors

Keynote

Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Director, ANO Institute of Arts and Knowledge

Opening Statement by Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on the occasion of the kick-off event of TheMuseumsLab