Museum Cooperation Between Africa and Europe : A New Field for Museum Studies

Prés. de l'éd.: At a time of major transformations in the conditions and self-conceptions of cultural history and ethnological museums worldwide, it has become increasingly important for these museums to engage in cooperative projects. This book brings together insights and analyses of a wide variety of approaches to museum cooperation from different expert perspectives. Featuring a variety of African and European points of view and providing detailed empirical evidence, it establishes a new field of museological study and provides some suggestions for future museum practice Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Preface Heterodoxy and the Internationalisation and Regionalisation of Museums and Museology Building a Critical Museology in Africa Introduction: Rethinking Museum Cooperation between Africa and Europe Do we need a new paradigm? PART I. Mapping the field – the history and context of Museum Cooperation between Africa and Europe 2. Connected by History, Divided by Reality. Eliminating Suspicion and Promoting Cooperation between African and European Museums 3. Cooperation between European and African Museums: A Paradigm for Démuséalisation? PART II. Local communities and international networks – relations of partnership? 4. Shifting Knowledge Boundaries in Museums. Museum Objects, Local Communities and Curatorial Shifts in African Museums 5. Who Shapes the Museum? Exploring the Impact of International Networks on Contemporary East African Museums 6. The Road to Reconciliation. Museum Practice, Community Memorials and Collaborations in Uganda PART III. Accessibility of collections from Africa 7. The Junod Collection. A new Generation of Cooperation between Europe and Africa 8. The Africa Accessioned Network. ‘Museum Collections make Connections’ between Europe and Africa: A Case Study of Finland and Namibia 9. The Hazina Exhibition. Challenges and Lessons for International Museum Collaboration 10. Artworks Abroad. Ugandan Art in German Collections PART IV. Critique and evaluation of museum cooperation 11. New Considerations in Afro-European Museum Cooperation in Africa. The Examples of PREMA and Other Initiatives in Ghana 12. Investigating Museum Development in Africa: From Museum Cooperation to the Appropriation of Praxis 13. Conservation and Restoration as a Challenge for Museum Cooperation. The Case of the Palace Museum in Foumban, Cameroon Conclusion 14. What are the Opportunities, Challenges and Modalities for African and European Museum Cooperation? Index List of Contributors "This publication was kindly supported by the Swiss Society for African Studies". "This anthology is one of the outcomes of a cooperation project between three museums in Africa and Europe : the Uganda National Museum in Kampala, the Igongo Cultural Centre in Mbarara (south-west Uganda), and the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. It resulted from a conference of museum scholars and practitioners in December 2016, which aimed at discussing experiences and expertise in museum cooperation between Africa and Europe. The conference was hosted by the Ethnographic Museum at the University on behalf of the Swiss Society for African Studies in cooperation with the Swiss Anthropological Assocation" (remerciements page XI) Prés. de l'éd.: At a time of major transformations in the conditions and self-conceptions of cultural history and ethnological museums worldwide, it has become increasingly important for these museums to engage in cooperative projects. This book brings together insights and analyses of a wide variety of approaches to museum cooperation from different expert perspectives. Featuring a variety of African and European points of view and providing detailed empirical evidence, it establishes a new field of museological study and provides some suggestions for future museum practice

At a time of major transformations in the conditions and self-conceptions of cultural history and ethnological museums worldwide, it has become increasingly important for these museums to engage in cooperative projects.This book brings together insights and analyses of a wide variety of approaches to museum cooperation from different expert perspectives. Featuring a variety of African and European points of view and providing detailed empirical evidence, it establishes a new field of museological study and provides some suggestions for future museum practice.

»As such collaborative projects become more common in museum practice, this volume will provide an important resource for global professionals and scholars, as well as provoke discussion on how to address issues of accessibility, resource allocation, heritage politics, knowledge exchange, and the nature of collaboration.«Kristin Otto, Museum Anthropology Review, 13/1 (2019) »Eine kompakte und hervorragende Zusammenfassung der historischen sowie aktuellen Kapitalismuskritik von links und rechts.«Gerhard Neumeier, Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, 3 (2019)