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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

  • 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

  • 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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