A research and outreach project aimed at tracing the origin and acquisition conditions of pieces and collections that several Catalan museums have hidden to this day, originating from the Spanish colonial empire.
Issue nº2 of Huellas (2025) reflects on the paradoxes of museum decolonization, with the participation of the (Tr)african(t)s team.
El Punt Avui publishes an extensive report on the (Tr)african(t)s program, with an interview with researcher Laida Memba and statements by researchers Alberto López and Àlex Tejero.
From the 1887 Exposición General de las Islas Filipinas to the Ethnological Museum of Barcelona, José Coronado Ladrón de Guevara’s Philippine collection has passed through numerous institutions and relocations. Its journey, shaped by world’s fairs, political decisions, and museum reorganisations, reflects the complex management of colonial heritage in the Spanish state.
Having just begun its career in 1949, the Ethnological and Colonial Museum of Barcelona (precursor to the current Museum of Ethnology and World Cultures) assumed the responsibility of inventorying on the ground the material culture of the peoples who inhabited the northern zone of the Spanish protectorate over Morocco. The result of the expeditions was one of its first collections of colonial origin.
A summary of the interventions at the first Intercultural Dialogue Tables with people linked to Equatorial Guinea, held at the Museum of Ethnology and World Cultures (MuEC) during the first phase of the research.
On November 17, 2023, the architect and researcher Laida Memba Ikuga appeared in the Parliament of Catalonia on behalf of (Tr)african(t)s, to explain the program within the framework of the Study Commission on Institutional and Structural Racism.
After months of collaboration between many hands, a large monograph has been published in the magazine Sàpiens with part of the results of the research we do at (Tr)african(t)s
Heritage in conflict
Select a point on the map and delve into the history of objects and specimens from the former colonies
Collaborative network
Jesusi/Jesusa/Jesús Arpal Moya
- Public programmes
Adriana Peonia Iwasita Rodríguez
- Technical Officer
Pablo González
- Outputs
