Aligned with this digital transformation, our team of digital specialists is spearheading initiatives to digitise artefacts and bring West African heritage into the 21-st century by developing MOWAA’s Digital Collection. From digitally documenting artefacts to creating online narratives for enhanced research and engagement, MOWAA’s efforts range fromgeographic and spatial analytics, virtual tours, to training and exchange programs for other museums and cultural institutions.
Over the past two years, MOWAA has worked with several institutions including Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Cambridge), Pitt-Rivers Museum (Oxford), Ipswich Museum , Horniman Museum (London), Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum (Cologne), Ethnologische Museum (Berlin), Rietberg Museum (Zurich), Museum der Kulturen (Basel), Neuchatel Ethnology Museum (Basel), and Musée d’Ethnographie (Zurich).
Here on the continent, we are actively engaged in network-building and knowledge exchanges with other African practitioners driving their own innovative projects related to heritage preservation, education and virtual creativity. Our recent exchanges involved cultural institutions such as the Nigeria’s national museums, Looty, African Digital Heritage (Kenya) ,Limbo Africa (Ghana) and the Institute of Benin Studies, as well as a host of family-based custodians and individuals working on independent initiatives.
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