Curator/Collections Researcher

Making African Connections

Kathleen Lawther

Date Published

31st March 2021

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cover of report 'Making African Connections: Decolonial Futures for Colonial Collections'

For the Making African Connections, project partners working across Kent and Sussex, Botswana, Namibia and Sudan were invited to share reflections on the project. I contributed a short piece on Decolonising collections documentation.

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Projects

Ipswich Museum World Collections

Ipswich Museum is a local authority museum which first opened in 1881. In 2020 they were awarded a Development Grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for a project focusing on ‘the museum’s outstanding Victorian heritage – the philanthropists, industrialists and scientists who started it; the collections; the fascinating cast of characters who collected them and the museum building they built to house them.’

Fashioning Africa

Fashioning Africa was a project to collect postcolonial fashion and accessories from across the African continent, responding to and complementing Brighton Museum’s designated collection of historic African textiles. The team collected over 450 items, working with a collecting panel which included expertise from lived experience and academia. I joined the project to document these new acquisitions.

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