Abstract
How can a museum avoid ‘silencing’ objects that have been removed from the practices and context which gave them meaning? This question is of particular importance to African museums where individual artefacts often have a living relationship with the community and form part of a total cultural experience. The thoughtful and innovative response of the Sukuma Museum in the United Republic of Tanzania is recounted by Mark H.C. Bessire, who has just completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Museum Studies at the Sukuma Museum. He recently coordinated the exhibition Art of Identity: African Sculpture from the Teel Collection for the Fogg Museum at Harvard University.
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