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Un-disciplining the Museum? Changing Practices of Care, Knowledge and DisplayThe 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 & Power (26 July 2022 - 23 April …

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 CambridgeIn November MAA hosted Rose Mwanja Nkaale and Nelson Abiti from…

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 initiatives, including:Comparati…

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 the process of publishing Hadd…

UpdateKampala, Thursday 13 June 2024On 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 loan, where they will be th…