📋 Tender Overview
The TheMuseumsLab program which was launched in May 2021 will enter its second round next year. Interested persons can apply until January 23 2022. TheMuseumsLab is a platform for mutual learning exchange and further education about the future of museums in Africa and Europe. The aim of the program is to build close and permanent networks between future designers of museum concepts on both sides.Johannes Vogel General Director of the Museum fr Naturkunde Berlin saidWe are pleased that the globally unique project TheMuseumsLab can now be established as a platform for an international practice-oriented community of museum specialists .One goal of MuseumsLab is not only to change museums but also to promote social change by addressing urgent issues such as social justice and climate change.The project was developed by the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD the Museum fr Naturkunde Berlin MfN the masters course in museum management and communication at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences HTW and the African group of consultants The Advisors. In 2022 the program will be implemented in close cooperation with the University of the Western Cape UWC and the Goethe Institute South Africa.TheMuseumsLab is financed by the Foreign Office AA and supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media BKM and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development BMZ.The program promotes the professional exchange between curators researchers and executives in museums galleries and cultural institutions in African and European countries and enables participants to exchange knowledge skills and practices. In 2022 50 employees from African and European museums can take part in the program. Over 100 lecturers speakers and mentors will accompany the program with thematic inputs and discussions.The program begins in May with a digital module on the subject of Entangled Histories and the Future of Cultural Memories followed by the second module Collections and Research in Berlin in June . Afterwards the participants have the possibility of a two-week residency at one of the 30 European partner museums in the following year this will also be extended to African partner museums. The program will be completed with the third module Communication and Strategic Management with a subsequent one-week co-creation phase in Cape Town in September 2022.
