Public Kick-Off Event TheMuseumsLab

In 2025, TheMuseumsLab welcomes its fifth Fellow cohort, continuing a journey that began in 2021. Therefore, we are thrilled to invite you to our Public Kick-Off Event and the official start of this year's Programme:

 Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 5.00pm CEST, Live via YouTube - join here

This year we are delighted to welcome two Speakers for a joint Keynote:
Injonge Karangwa (Founder and General Manager at Nyanja Lab) and Jonas Tinius (Director of the Berlin-Brandenburg Office for Everyday Culture, Institute for European Ethnology). The Event will be moderated by Paula Essam.

We greatly look forward to welcoming you online.
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TheMuseumsLab 2025 is jointly curated and implemented by the Yimtubezina Museum and Cultural Center, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the International Academic Committee, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and TheMuseumsLab Alumni Network. TheMuseumsLab is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) and the Federal Foreign Office (AA).

About TheMuseumsLab

Since founded in 2021, TheMuseumsLab has brought together a wide range of perspectives, skills, and competencies. Each year, several African and European individuals and institutions collaborate to realise the programme. Starting online and continuing on-site in Africa and Europe, 50 Fellows and various museum practitioners, scholars, artists, and activists, all connected to the museum sphere, come together to explore the history, research, decolonisation present, and future of museums, exchange knowledge, ideas, best practices, and engage with various museum spaces on both continents. Past themes have encompassed areas such as digitisation, provenance, as well as the historical and ongoing presence of objects from colonial contexts in European museums and contemporary museum practices. The programme strives to engage with these topics in an open, diverse, and interdisciplinary way.

Since its beginning, TheMuseumsLab has been committed to establishing and consolidating a sustainable network of professionals connected to the museum landscapes in Africa and Europe. The programme aims at sparking a joint reflection on a new ethical framework for international cooperation.