THE PROGRAM
Learning from other projects
Equatorial Guinea
During the month of July 2023, a delegation of the (Tr)african(t)s team travelled to Equatorial Guinea to present the project and the preliminary results of their research. We were able to meet with the Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CICTE), and the Ministry of Culture...
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Morocco
Between the 18th and the 26th of February, the (Tr)african(t)s team travelled to Morocco (Rabat, Tétouan, Al Hoceima, Nador, Melilla) with the aim of sharing the project and its partial results with different local institutions...
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The Philippines
From the 21th to the 31th January 2024, the technical coordinator and the academic coordinator of the programme, José Alonso and Alberto López Bargados, made a work trip to the Philippines to deepen our understanding of the Philippine heritage present in Catalonia and to apply this knowledge to the programme’s research...
The European country that has probably devoted the most resources and efforts to provenance research and is at the most advanced stage in the restitution, repair, and resignification of its colonial collections is Germany…
The museum of Quai Branly in Paris has been involved in various restitution projects, the most significant of which was the return of twenty-six pieces to the Republic of Benin and one to Senegal (2021)…
In March 2024, part of the (Tr)african(t)s research team travelled to the United Kingdom to study initiatives aimed at the resignification and restitution of objects of colonial origin. During the course of the visit, we were able to hold conversations with different people from a variety of institutions, including the Pitt Rivers Museum, the University College London, the Black Cultural Archives, the Horniman Museum and Gardens, and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge…
In the Netherlands, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science is the owner of the collections and has developed a scientific policy around the restitution of heritage. A crucial report from 2019 sets out criteria and procedures for returns…
From 5th to 7th June 2023, the technical coordinator, José Alonso, and the academic coordinator of the programme, Alberto López Bargados, travelled to Belgium with the aim of visiting various cultural institutions and research projects focused on the origins of colonial collections…