MAA research projects
MAA D 1914.34. Photography by Gwil Owen.
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What's the Point? Documenting and recontextualising Pacific arrows
What's the Point? Documenting and recontextualising Pacific arrows is a project to advance understanding of over 2,000 Pacific arrows through new research and scientific analysis, creating resources to guide the wider sector. The project, supported by Art Fund’s Reimagine programme, will highlight the significance of these arrows to communities and individuals, share their stories and increase access.
From the Caribbean to Cambridge: Reimagining Pre-Columbian Archaeology Collections Together
From the Caribbean to Cambridge: Reimagining Pre-Columbian Archaeology Collections Together is a research project which will bring together Caribbean diaspora communities in the East of England to collaboratively reinterpret, co-curate, and create the first permanent Caribbean cases at MAA. The project, supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, will involve community-led workshops, co-curation of displays, and the development of interactive interpretive materials, including 3D scanning and digital storytelling, ensuring that Caribbean voices are at the forefront of how these collections are presented.
Whispers of Caribbean Isles: Inclusive Narratives for pre-Columbian Archaeology Collections
‘Whispers of Caribbean Isles: Inclusive Narratives for pre-Columbian Archaeology Collections' is a research project which aims to trial new ways of connecting existing collections at University Museums with stakeholder communities locally and abroad. The project, which is funded by the Collections-Connections-Communities Strategic Research Initiative, began in November 2023.
MAA Digital Lab
In recent years MAA has committed to improving digital accessibility to collections from Asia and across the world. The focus of the new Digital Laboratory will be to try new ways of working with, showing and talking about the collections: to do things that cannot be done within the Museum.
The project will officially begin in September 2022, with our first online outputs launched in November 2022.