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A kiosk-sized museum turning up at a fishing harbour makes for an unusual gallery visit. In a UNESCO Courier interview, Nana Oforiatta Ayim describes a mobile museum that travels across Ghana, bringing art to places including harbours and market squares. She says its plans can change when it reaches a community and people take part. Objects, photographs, paintings, films and oral histories gathered in a region are then exhibited there, so visitors can encounter material connected to the place around them.
Ayim also links the travelling museum to the Cultural Encyclopaedia, a project documenting cultural expression across Africa. According to the interview, information gathered through the museum feeds that wider archive. For someone stopping by on an ordinary day, a shared story or object could become part of something that lasts beyond the visit. How are visitors’ contributions chosen for the Encyclopaedia after the museum moves on?
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