20 May 2024
The next meeting in the seminar series of the Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity: “The British Museum’s approach to its collection of artworks from the African Continent (1753-2023)”- Nicola Foster, May 22, 2024
The next meeting in the seminar series of the Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity “Decolonizing approaches to studying history and linguistic-cultural heritage. Methods, tools, results and challenges”
The British Museum’s approach to its collection of artworks from the African Continent (1753-2023)
will take place on
May 22, 2024
at 16:45 CET
in Room 9,
Dobra 72
My paper explores curatorial practices used at the British Museum in the context of its controversial African collection. Parts of the collection is contested as ‘heritage’, and whose heritage it should be. It explores questions such as: can curatorial work narrate the Other outside power structures? How might it narrate other cultures? And can there be collaborations across cultures without collapsing into existing power structures?
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