TheMuseumsLab Collaborators

Since 2021, a diverse range of institutions and individuals have actively shaped and contributed to TheMuseumsLab Fellowship.

Through their expertise, creativity, and engagement, they have influenced the program’s direction, developed innovative projects, and addressed complex cultural issues such as historical injustices, restitution, the role of memory in contemporary society, as well as leadership in complex global contexts and the relevance and future of museums.

Lead Curatorial Partners since 2021

University of the Western Cape

University of the Western Cape

The University of the Western Cape (UWC) was founded in 1960 and occupies a unique space in the South African higher education landscape. It is a dynamic institution committed to excellence in learning, teaching, research and innovation in…

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District Six Museum

District Six Museum

The ‘Hands Off District Six’ conference of 1988 led to the formation of the District Six Museum Foundation in 1989. The Foundation worked towards the establishment of the Museum which was launched on 10 December 1994 with its inaugural exhi…

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National Museums of Kenya

National Museums of Kenya

The National Museums of Kenya (NMK) is a multidisciplinary state corporation, entrusted with managing Kenya’s heritage on behalf of the citizens. Its main areas of focus are research, heritage conservation and management. The institution is…

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Ghana Museums and Monuments Board

Ghana Museums and Monuments Board

The Museums Division of GMMB oversees nine main museums, including the National Museum. Two of the museums are situated inside a castle, and three are situated inside a fort. Apart from their regular exhibits, the museums organize temporary…

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Yimtubezina Museum

Yimtubezina Museum

Yimtubezina Museum is an independent, private museum and historical institution located in Addis Ababa.…

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South African Heritage Agency

South African Heritage Agency

The South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) is an agency of the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture tasked with an overall legislative mandate to identify, assess, manage, protect, and promote heritage resources in South Africa.…

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Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

The MfN is an integrated research museum within the Leibniz Association. Our mission is to discover and describe life and earth – with people, through dialogue.…

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Museums and Cultural Spaces Hosting the Programme since 2021

berlin global village

berlin global village

“Berlin Global Village” is Berlin’s one world center. Since March 2021, 50 development-policy and migrant-diasporic NGOs are located here for their commitment. They offer a diverse political and cultural program for the urban society in the…

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Ghana Museums and Monuments Board

Ghana Museums and Monuments Board

The Museums Division of GMMB oversees nine main museums, including the National Museum. Two of the museums are situated inside a castle, and three are situated inside a fort. Apart from their regular exhibits, the museums organize temporary…

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National Museums of Kenya

National Museums of Kenya

The National Museums of Kenya (NMK) is a multidisciplinary state corporation, entrusted with managing Kenya’s heritage on behalf of the citizens. Its main areas of focus are research, heritage conservation and management. The institution is…

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Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

The MfN is an integrated research museum within the Leibniz Association. Our mission is to discover and describe life and earth – with people, through dialogue.…

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Ethnologisches Museum

Ethnologisches Museum

The collections of the Ethnological Museum Berlin house around 500,000 ethnographic, archaeological and cultural-historical objects from Africa, Asia, America and Oceania. The museum deals critically with the legacy and consequences of colo…

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Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin

Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin

The Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) is the oldest of its kind in Germany. It houses world-famous examples of European arts and crafts, including magnificent reliquaries made of gold and precious gemstones, exquisite vases of…

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SAVVY Contemporary - The Laboratory of Form-Ideas

SAVVY Contemporary - The Laboratory of Form-Ideas

SAVVY Contemporary is an artistic organisation, discursive platform, place for good talks, foods and drinks – a space for conviviality and cultural plurilog. As a public and independent organism in perpetual becoming, it is animated by arou…

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Talking Objects Lab

Talking Objects Lab

TALKING OBJECTS LAB is an artistic research project dedicated to the decolonization of memory and knowledge, unfolding in think tanks, symposiums, artistic interventions, and exhibitions over several years.…

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HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt

HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) is guided by the quest for strategies of how to live and better inhabit this world together. It is a house in which cultures of conviviality and hospitality are sown, nurtured to blossoming, and disseminated…

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The Iziko South African Museum

The Iziko South African Museum

Iziko, an isiXhosa word meaning ‘hearth’, traditionally and symbolically the social centre of the home - a place associated with warmth, kinship and the spirit of the ancestors. This embodies the spirit of a transformed institution and ‘Afr…

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Yimtubezina Museum

Yimtubezina Museum

Yimtubezina Museum is an independent, private museum and historical institution located in Addis Ababa.…

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Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

Hamburger Bahnhof was founded in 1996 as the Contemporary Art Museum of Germany’s National Gallery in Berlin. Through exhibitions, performances, educational programming, publications and a rich schedule of symposia, Hamburger Bahnhof serves…

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Zitadelle Spandau

Zitadelle Spandau

Spandau Citadel is considered one of best preserved Renaissance fortresses in Europe. Until 1945 it was always used for military purposes, during the NS era as a laboratory complex for chemical weapons. Today, the citadel is a cultural and…

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Stadtmuseum Berlin

Stadtmuseum Berlin

The Stadtmuseum Berlin brings together the past, present and future, with a focus on people and their stories. With our collections, exhibitions and programs, we offer unique approaches to past and current developments in the city.…

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Botanical Garden Berlin

Botanical Garden Berlin

With a variety of around 20,000 plant species, the Botanical Garden Berlin is the largest in Germany and one of the most important in the world. On 43 hectares of open land and in fifteen greenhouses, visitors get fascinating insights into…

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FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum

FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum

The FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum is a district museum in Berlin and, with its exhibition, event, collection/archive and mediation program, sees itself as a forum and moving memory of the district. Starting from a position critical o…

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Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum

Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum

The Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum is a memorial to the system of migrant labour, single sex hostels and the control of black workers through the identity document which controlled the lives of black South Africans under apartheid— the infam…

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Robben Island Museum

Robben Island Museum

Robben Island is a National Museum, National Heritage site, a Marine Protected Area and World Heritage Site (WHS), located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.…

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Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens

Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens

The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) contributes to South Africa’s sustainable development by facilitating access to biodiversity data, generating information and knowledge, building capacity, providing policy advice, s…

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Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten

Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten

The Prussian palaces and gardens in Berlin and Brandenburg are central testimonia of European culture, and a large number of these sites are protected as UNESCO World Heritage. The Weimar Republic’s young democracy sit up a cultural institu…

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Museum Treptow

Museum Treptow

The museums Treptow-Köpenick and the project Decolonial Remembrance Culture in the City will show the fundamentally revised exhibition "zurückgeschaut I looking back - The First German Colonial Exhibition of 1896 in Berlin-Treptow" from 15…

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Peace Memorial Museum

Peace Memorial Museum

The Peace Memorial Museum was created and designed within the Visitors Centre to honor those who lost their lives during the tragic event on 7th August 1998.…

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Murumbi Collection

Murumbi Collection

Joseph and Sheila Murumbi were Africa’s greatest private collectors of artifacts, art pieces, books, jewelry, postal stamps, textiles and furniture which are today on display at the Nairobi Gallery. Their mission was to preserve, protect an…

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Shujaa Stories

Shujaa Stories

Shujaa Stories specializes in visual storytelling through mediums like story books, animation, and curated exhibitions. Our mission is to spotlight the remarkable, often overlooked, African figures - folk legend, cultural icons focusing on…

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Olorgesailie Prehistoric Site

Olorgesailie Prehistoric Site

Olorgesailie Prehistoric Site is a key site in understanding the Acheulean technological tradition, especially given the volume and variety of hand axes found in situ. S…

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Disrupting and Reorienting Restitution

Disrupting and Reorienting Restitution

Disrupting & Reorienting Restitution embraces a multidisciplinary approach to highlighting voices from Africa and the Diaspora in the restitution debate.…

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Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park

Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park

The Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park (KNMP) is located in downtown Accra, the capital of Ghana. It is dedicated to the prominent Ghanaian leader Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. The memorial complex was dedicated in 1992, and is situated on the site…

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Nubuke Foundation

Nubuke Foundation

Nubuke Foundation is a Ghanaian contemporary art and cultural institution based in East Legon, Accra, and Wa, Upper West region. Founded in 2006, the Foundation serves as a nexus for preserving, recording, and promoting contemporary arts an…

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Artist Alliance Gallery

Artist Alliance Gallery

Founded in 1993 by the distinguished Ghanaian artist Professor Ablade Glover, the Artists Alliance Gallery (also known as Omanye House) was envisioned as a dedicated space for showcasing and nurturing Ghanaian fine art.…

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Gallery 1957

Gallery 1957

Gallery 1957 presents leading artists working across West Africa and the Diaspora. It is a contemporary art gallery with spaces across Accra, Ghana and London, UK and dedicates its programme to spearheading international exchanges between a…

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Institute of African Studies

Institute of African Studies

The Institute of African Studies (IAS) is the first and oldest semi-autonomous research institute of the University of Ghana, Legon. It was set up in 1961 by Ghana’s first President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, as a multi-disciplinary and i…

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Museum of Archaeology | University of Ghana

Museum of Archaeology | University of Ghana

The Museum of Archaeology is a teaching museum located in the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon.…

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Adwa Memorial Museum

Adwa Memorial Museum

The Adwa Victory Memorial pays homage to the heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice and those whose valorous deeds ensured Ethiopia’s triumph. Through immersive exhibits, poignant artifacts, and evocative displays, visitors are transported…

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Andemta Archive

Andemta Archive

A collective that was formed in 2005 by six individuals as a reading club; reorganized in 2015 with a plan to be an archive center for in-house and external research works focusing on Ethiopia and the wider African Diaspora.…

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Artawi Gallery

Artawi Gallery

Artawi Gallery is a photography-centric art space fostering connections through contemporary art that is advocating for artists’ benefits. The gallery was founded by photographers Sehin Tewabe and Abinet Teshome, who will welcome you at the…

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Bilalul Habeshi Museum

Bilalul Habeshi Museum

The Bilalul Habeshi Museum is considered to be the pioneer nation in hosting the religion of Islam. Ethiopia keeps one of the fascinating early history of Islam and a large treasure trove of the oldest Islamic artifacts. Despite the early f…

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Economic Commission for Africa & African Union

Economic Commission for Africa & African Union

The African Union (AU) has designated 2025 as the ‘Year of Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations.’ This initiative underscores the AU’s commitment to addressing historical injustices, including the trans-Atl…

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Fendika Cultural Center

Fendika Cultural Center

Fendika Cultural Center shares Ethiopian cultures globally, provides opportunities to artists, and facilitates people-to-people exchange through arts and culture.…

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Entoto St. Maryam Church Museum

Entoto St. Maryam Church Museum

Founded in 1877, Entoto Maryam (St. Mary) church is one of the oldest churches in Addis Ababa located within the vicinity of Mount Entoto. The church is built in an octagonal in shape with its exterior decorated with painted glass panels an…

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Hamere Birhan

Hamere Birhan

The organisation is dedicated to preserving the art of traditional manuscript production and rekindling the artistic talents and expertise of icon painting. The Hamere Berhan Institute is tirelessly working to replicate Ethiopian manuscript…

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National Museum of Ethiopia

National Museum of Ethiopia

The National Museum of Ethiopia is probably one of the standout museums in sub-Saharan African in terms of its numerous and priceless collections.…

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National Palace Museum

National Palace Museum

The National Palace in Ethiopia, also known as the Jubilee Palace, stands as a testament to the country’s rich history, embodying the legacy of Ethiopian monarchs and the enduring spirit of its people.…

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Studio 11

Studio 11

Studio 11 isn’t just a gallery; it’s a community and stands as a testament to our passion for Ethiopian art and culture. Their approach to curating and collaborating is distinct, making Studio 11 a dynamic hub for those eager to engage with…

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Tayitu Cultural & Educational Centre

Tayitu Cultural & Educational Centre

Tayitu Cultural and Educational Center is established with the ultimate purpose to meet the cultural, social, and artistic needs of the Ethiopian Community in North America, especially in the Washington Metropolitan area.…

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The Space Ethiopia

The Space Ethiopia

Contemporary Art Gallery and residency in the heart of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.…

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Unity Park

Unity Park

The construction of Unity Park was initiated by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (Dr.) in 2018 and officially inaugurated and opened to the public on October 10/ 2019. Unity Park is located in the premises of the Grand Palace and it is composed of…

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The Urban Centre

The Urban Centre

The Urban center is an inclusive and creative space born out of the popular radio show KEBET ESKE KETEMA (ከቤት እስከ ከተማ) which started on 25th December, 2007 focusing on architecture, engineering, construction and urban life.…

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