The Open Restitution Project is an Africa-led project seeking to open up access to information on the restitution of African material culture and human ancestors, to empower all stakeholders involved to make knowledge-based decisions.What started off as a collaborative passion project between Andani Africa's - Molemo Moiloa and African Digital Heritage's - Chao Tayiana Maina has now grown to a team of...
Project Coordinator: Great Zimbabwe World Heritage Site Development Project https://careers.unesco.org/job-invite/18377/ Project Assistant: Great Zimbabwe World Heritage Site Development Project https://careers.unesco.org/job-invite/18375/ Education and Intangible Cultural Heritage Expert (Consultancy) https://careers.unesco.org/job-invite/18350/
Each year, in partnership with the Ford Foundation, Villa Albertine welcomes five thinkers, creators, or culture professionals from the African continent to complete a residency in the US. The five laureates, selected out of the current call for applications, will get the opportunity to complete a two-month exploratory residency in a US city in 2024. This residency program aims to promote...
ARCHIVE INTERNS WANTED FULL CALL (PDF) The Museums Association of Namibia (MAN) is a Non-Governmental Organisation representing museums and heritage institutions throughout Namibia. As a representative body, it supports museums in various ways such as in the field of training, funding, and the networking of professionals. MAN invites qualified individuals to apply for the following internship positions. POSITION: Archive Intern (Windhoek)...
Doctoral Scholarships (m/f/d) Application deadline: 30.3.2023 Duration: 10/2023 - 9/2026 Scholarship for doctoral studies in the research field Museum and Collections linked to the disciplines of Social and Cultural Anthropology/ Historical and Cultural Anthropology, and History in the PhD Programme: “A Doctorate in the Museum - the Local and Global Dimensions of Objects in Anthropological Museums in Baden- Württemberg Today”, (DIMA)...
Linden-Museum Stuttgart is offering a two-year fellowship for African curators or scholars from September 1, 2023.The fellowship program, funded by the German Gerda Henkel Foundation, aims at supporting four German museums holding African collections – in Leipzig/Dresden/Herrnhut (Saxony), Hamburg, Cologne, and Stuttgart – in their engagement to decolonize their museum practice and to foster a new ethics of collaboration with the...
The current Advisory Board/Committee for the Confronting Colonial Pasts, Envisioning Creative Futures (and by extension, all the sub-projects such as the Museum of Namibian Fashion etc.) was developed organically during the first phase of the project through the engagement with different stakeholders for different components of the project. Therefore, while planning for the second phase of the project and beyond, during...
Download here: Obliterate Call for Abstracts Obliterate Call for Abstracts “it is about time that we questioned the fundamental basis of the situation and ‘killed’ - I repeat, killed – the Western model of the museum in Africa in order for new methods for the conservation and promotion of our heritage to flourish.” (Alpha Oumar Konaré, former president of ICOM) Between academics,...