Colonialism

Anthropologist Julia Binter curated the exhibition "The Blind Spot" (August 5-November 19), which aims to reflect on the colonial past of the museum and the city of Bremen, a hub of international trade during the 18th and 19th centuries - the peak of European colonialism. The exhibit also seeks to rethink pressing current issues such as globalization, migration and identity.

The Nusantara Museum in Delft Netherlands focuses on the history and cultures of Indonesia. The museum examines the 400 year old historical relationship between the Netherlands and Indonesia. In 2013, the Museum Nusantara closed its doors due to budget cuts.

In 1947, 70 years ago, the public discovered one of the first sound recordings of Pygmy music collected in Equatorial Africa by the French ethnomusicologist Gilbert Rouget.

These were recorded during the Ogooué-Congo Mission, a scientific expedition led by the 23-year old French ethnologist Noël Ballif. This mission was the first organised by the Liotard group, a collective of young French explorers from Paris’ Musée de l’Homme.

The Surinaams Museum is located inside Fort Zeelandia, the site where British and Dutch colonists first arrived in Suriname.

The museum was supposed to house permanent and special exhibitions on Libya’s unique history, telling the story of campaigns and conflicts that have shaped the country from colonial power to independent state. Permanent exhibitions would have included galleries documenting the country’s historic evolution with large-scale exhibits (lower ground floor), the uprising against repression (first floor) and its history of revolution (second floor).

The Africa Centre and the Sulger-Buel Lovell Gallery in London presented the 53 Echoes of Zaire exhibition, a collection of paintings by the late Congolese artists T. Kalema, C. Mutombo, B. Ilunga, Ndaie, and Tshibumba Kanda Matulu, the featured artist in the show.

All of the works were created in the late 1970s, less than a decade after Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, gained its independence from Belgium.

The House of Slaves (Maison des Esclaves) and its Door of No Return is a museum and memorial to the Atlantic slave trade on Gorée Island, 3 km off the coast of the city of Dakar, Senegal. Its museum, which was opened in 1962 and curated until Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye's death in 2009, is said to memorialise the final exit point of the slaves from Africa.

This site has been realised to gather, share, and comment on material and resources related to British colonialism.

The aim is simply to help those interested learn more about true nature of British colonial rule worldwide.

Although currently only virtual, it hopes for a physical space one day and still call it a museum, because we think the definition fits.

The National Museum's new exhibition about Denmark's colonial history in the West Indies, India, West Africa and Greenland is not about trade, commodities and resources but about people. We meet the West Indian rebel Queen Mary, the Gold Coast slave trader Ludvig Rømer, the Greenlandic prophet Habakuk, the enslaved West Indian Franciscus, and many more. People who embody dramatic stories of loss, divided families, fear and violence. But also hope, broken chains and the power of uprising.

After the independence of Indonesia, the Colonial Institute in Amsterdam restyled itself the Indies Museum, then in 1950 became the Royal Tropic Institute with the museum proper renamed the Tropical Museum. The museum tried to downplay its colonial origin and mission, taking now as its principal theme international cooperation, development aid and daily life in the Third World.