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Goethe-Institut Call for Expressions of Interest: MuseumFutures – Africa

Deadline: 15-Jun-2020

The MuseumFutures-project is a pan-African project for the conceptual development of museums on the African continent supported by the Goethe-Institut and developed collaboratively with a team of practitioners from the art and museum fields.

It aims at enabling museum-driven processes of innovation, change, or adaptation. The central tenet is for museums to drive their own change, through facilitated peer-to-peer learning between African Museums.

The main aim of the project is to enable museums to address their own challenges or embark on new strategies, this might include; restructuring their work, developing new concepts for exhibitions, building new networks on the continent and developing strategies that engage more with a museum’s identified communities.

The MuseumFutures-project is a collaborative and experimental process that requires a high level of openness to and interest in change. It is a project in which museums will be twinned with relevant museums on the continent in order to share new experiences in redesigning strategies. Over the course of 18 months, a learning process will be facilitated that enables a different approach to museum work. This process will be externally facilitated and moderated. Participating museums will get access to modest funding for additional external support, some travel and to support exhibition projects related to the process. Activities such as Labs with the partnering museum, study group meetings and workshops will be financially supported by the project.

MuseumFutures – Africa

The MuseumFutures – Africa project seeks to support museum-driven processes of innovation, change, or adaptation. It is based on the original concept produced collaboratively by a team of practitioners from the art and museums fields. Bernard Akoi-Jackson, Khwezi Gule, Flower Manase, Molemo Moiloa, Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja and Nontobeko Ntombela developed the original concept in 2019. The current iteration is a joint effort of the Goethe-Instituts in Sub-Saharan Africa, together with Manase, Moiloa and Mushaandja, who are continuing to develop the project MuseumFutures in 2020 and 2021.

Museums will be expected to:

The project will offer learning and networking opportunities for the involved museums but requires consistent conceptual and practical work over a period of 12-18 months. To support the high amount of commitments the project requires, support by external advisers can be covered.

Eligibility Criteria

Active and running museums of all kinds from Africa can apply for this project. A priority will be given to museums that already are well connected in their community and can involve partners in the process.

If you are interested in participating, please hand in:

For more information, visit https://www.museums.com.na/entry/2020/05/goethe-institut-museumfutures-africacall-for-expressions-of-interest

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