The MuseumsLab hosts events to promote professional exchange among museum practitioners, scholars and renowned experts from Africa, Europe, and beyond - spanning keynote lectures, panel discussions, workshops, institutional visits, and public forums.
Focussing on the overarching theme ‘Building Futures from Memory: Museums and Memorial Sites as Agents’, the 2026 TheMuseumsLab will kick off on 6th May with a digital event that is open to the public.
Read moreThe Public Event of TheMuseumsLab programme will take place on June 18th, 2026. TheMuseumsLab 2026 is jointly organised by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN) and Rwanda Cultural Heritage Academy.
Read moreKick-Off 2023: TheMuseumsLab welcomes its third group of Fellows and opens the year's programme with a digital kick-off event that is open to the public.
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The programme of 2022 takes place in close cooperation with the University of the Western Cape (UWC), the Goethe-Institute Johannesburg and the German Academic Exchange Service in South Africa as well as several African and European museums and cultural institutions and kicks off on June 15, 2022.
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TheMuseumsLab is a platform for joint learning, exchange and continuing education on the future of museums in both Africa and Europe. The programme started in 2021 has the aim to establish close and lasting networks between future shapers of museum concepts on both sides.
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Elisabeth Nechutnys
Event Management
Elisabeth.Nechutnys@mfn.berlin