Which transformations were necessary to free museums from the shackles of colonialism? Ciraj Rassool highlights the developments in South African museums since the mid-nineties.

Ciraj Rassool

Historian

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Latitude on Air: Unsettling Power Relations

Monthly radio programme Latitude on Air

Starting from October 2020, Latitude on Air will broadcast a two-hour radio programme once a month in the online-stream here on the website. For the kick-off, the focus was on the highlights of the Latitude-Festival 2020. The subsequent monthly shows will take place every last Friday of the month from 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.

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In focus: Global future of museums

Aztec head of Xipe Totec (Our Lord, the oppressed), old Mexican spring god, dressed with a stripped human skin. Stone. Hamburg, Museum am Rothenbaum - Cultures and Arts of the World (MARKK).

International cooperations between museums should be based on reciprocity

Collaborative museology Exploring new paths

Cooperative ventures between museums in the Global North and those in the Global South are likely to be structured quite differently in future, explains Barbara Plankensteiner, Director of the Museum am Rothenbaum World Cultures and Arts (MARKK) in Hamburg

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Jon Weinberg on new technologies in museums — Jon Weinberg on the necessity of new concepts for African museums

On participation and collaboration in museums Don’t do it for me without me!

How museums in Africa with their urgently needed reorientation can at the same time take into account the traditions and expectations of their audience, explains George Abungu, archaeologist and former director of the National Museum of Kenya.

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“From the late twentieth century onward, ethnographic museums were challenged - some critics considered them just as stores of colonial loot. Curators responded by reinventing their practice, seeking to work more collaboratively and inclusively”.

Professor Nicholas Thomas on the redefinition of ethnographic collections, more in the interview “The museum inside-out”:

Controversial street name from Germany's colonial past: Lüderitzstraße in Berlin

Egometer German Colonial History

In order to actively participate in and follow the discourse on colonialism, it is important to understand where it all began. How much do you know about German colonial history? Test yourself with our egometer and find out where you stand!

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