The Architecture of Shared Memory: Reflections on Module 1
How do societies organize memory? Must it always be outsourced to centralized, national institutions, or can it breathe outside the strict geometry of concrete and state control? — A reflection on Module 1 by Mahad Mohamed.
Keeping Memory Alive: How Museums Help Future Generations Remember What They Never Lived
A reflection on Module 1 of TheMuseumsLab 2026 by Dr. Samar El Khamisy, exploring how cultural institutions help future generations understand events they never lived through, ensuring that difficult histories remain a source of empathy, resilience, and shared responsibility rather than silence and forgetting.
Re-Rooted: Artists Selected, Foundations in Place | CollabFund
This update explores the foundational phase of the “Re-Rooted” project, outlining the setup of the collaborative infrastructure, reflecting on early project activities, and celebrating the selection of artists Wacelia Zualo and Fatma Elzahraa.
Building a Queer Digital Archive: First Steps | CollabFund
The Queer Digital Archive Project moves into its next phase, working with selected contributors, a designer, and museum partners to develop a digital space for queer histories, identities, and cultural narratives across Africa and the African diaspora.
Community Collaboration and Provenance Research in Tanzania | CollabFund
A video insight by Eliabu Mbonimpa on a field journey through Tanzania retraces the routes of Slovenian collector Stanko Grom. Through conversations with local communities, museum professionals, and artists, the project Tracing Colonialism opens new perspectives on the collection and its contemporary relevance.
Pangolins and Participation: Turning Museum Visitors into Exhibit Creators | CollabFund
The Co-MammalHub project recently kicked off at the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History in Pretoria, bringing together experts and the public to discuss the world’s most trafficked mammal.
Tracing Aquatic Ecologies in the Okavango Delta | CollabFund
This reflection follows the early stages of research for the Digital Archive Footprints project focusing on water systems, aquatic plants, and ecosystem change in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
