Always lots to learn from Juma Ondeng'.

If you click on the photo - there are some thoughts I shared during an IIP (International Inventories Programme) event that now form part of an exhibition in Germany. The ongoing challenges of working with colonial era collections & community members considerations on future of their material culture.

5/6 Fellow Juma George Ondeng is senior curator of the Kitale Museum in Kenya and a founding member of the Investors in People, a cooperation with goetheinstitut, National Museums of Kenya Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Weltkulturen Museum THX #TeamAbteilung6 The Advisors Network @mfnberlin

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...about museuming with Dr. Njoki Ngumi. The exhibition #InvisibleInventories is still showing at the Weltkulturen Museum till January, make a plan and drop in :) youtu.be/q-VmyQrj6t4

The Nigerian artist/art historian Peju Layiwola has just arrived in Cologne and we are so blessed! Her grandfather, was Oba Akenzua II, king of Benin. She will be in residency at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum and will work on the RJM Benin royal artworks looted in 1897.

Peju Layiwola: “finally get to see the exhibition RESIST! For the first time I was able to touch one of the looted Benin objects (…). The memorial head was very heavy- metaphorically it bears the weight of trauma, disturbing history and the complexity of human relations (…).”

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IIP is winding down. A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who has supported us over the years! If you want to contact us in the future, please use email: [email protected]