MuseumFutures Africa is a pan-African, people centred cultural project spearheaded by the Goethe-Institut and a team of African practitioners from the art and museum fields.
MuseumFutures Africa was conceived in the culmination of a series of ‘Museum Conversations’ in 2019, as a means of mobilizing museum driven processes of innovation, transformation and adaptation across the African continent.
On 30 March 2023, an open dynamic, reflective Zoom discussion will take place with some of the conceptualisers of MuseumFutures Africa.
The discussion will explore the vision and aspirations behind the project and its potential to impact the African museum landscape, looking at the six alumni museums from across the African continent who have been part of the project since 2020: Musée national de Guinée, National Museums of Kenya, Steve Biko Centre, Uganda Museum, Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art and Musée Théodore Monod IFAN Ch.A.Diop.
The Zoom discussion will feature key players who have been instrumental in conceiving and developing MuseumFutures Africa at different moments: Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja is a cultural worker, educator and writer with practice-research interests in African performance, sono-somatic archives and public culture, Molemo Moiloa lives and works in Johannesburg and has worked in various capacities at the intersection of creative practice and community organising, Flower Manase is the curator and researcher at the National Museum of Tanzania and Bernard Akoi Jackson is a Ghanaian academic, artist and writer and Khwezi Gule, Chief Curator at the Johannesburg Art Gallery.
They will share insights into the project's origins, as well as their hopes for its impact on the museum sector in Africa.
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