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Call for Papers - Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG) conference, 18-19 April 2023

23 December 2022

Un-disciplining the Museum? Changing Practices of Care, Knowledge and Display The Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG) Conference and AGM will take place at the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 18-19 April 2023. The MEG meeting will coincide with MAA's special exhibition COLOUR: Art, Science...

Rose Mwanja Nkaale, Nelson Abiti and MAA's Rachel Hand look at a computer screen showing the MAA database. A Ugandan object is visible on the table in the background; they are in the Centre of Material Culture, MAA's off-site storage facility.

Repositioning the Uganda Museum: MAA hosts visit from colleagues from Uganda Museums and University of Michigan

9 December 2022

Image 1: Rose Mwanja Nkaale and Nelson Abiti from the Uganda Museum and Rachel Hand from the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology looking at objects at the Centre for Material Culture and on the MAA database, November 2022. © Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge In November MAA hosted Rose...

Six people, three women and three men, standing in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, two of whom display a signed memorandum. They are smiling at the camera.

Mrs Xiao Rong inaugurates her company's support for the MAA Digital Lab

1 August 2022

This week the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge was delighted to welcome Mrs Xiao Rong, Board director of Qinghai Spring Medicinal Resources Technology Co., Ltd to officially inaugurate her company's support for the MAA Digital Lab , which will support a number of specific research...

Decolonising the Archive: Cambridge Anthropology and Torres Strait Island Kastom

20 October 2021

Dr Anita Herle, Senior Curator (Anthropology) A recent collaborative project to publish Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898 , highlights the far-reaching value of anthropological collections for ongoing research and community empowerment. Read on to find out how...

"Repositioning the Uganda Museum" Project to Repatriate Objects from MAA Cambridge to Kampala, Uganda

23 September 2021

Update Kampala, Thursday 13 June 2024 On the afternoon of Saturday 8 June, MAA staff arrived in Entebbe airport with 39 artefacts from the communities and kingdoms of Uganda that have been in the collections in Cambridge for a century or more. These artefacts have been placed in the care of the Uganda Museum on a long-term...

Call for Papers - Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG) conference, 18-19 April 2023

Repositioning the Uganda Museum: MAA hosts visit from colleagues from Uganda Museums and University of Michigan

Mrs Xiao Rong inaugurates her company's support for the MAA Digital Lab

Decolonising the Archive: Cambridge Anthropology and Torres Strait Island Kastom

"Repositioning the Uganda Museum" Project to Repatriate Objects from MAA Cambridge to Kampala, Uganda

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