IIP (International Inventories Programme)

People first need to know what was taken from them. Then, they will realize that this is not an elite discussion, but one that concerns them; their history, their heritage and their legacy -Felwine Sarr

IIP is winding down. A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who has supported us over the years! If you want to contact us in the future, please use email: mail@inventoriesprogramme.org

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Peju Layiwola: “finally get to see the exhibition RESIST! For the first time I was able to touch one of the looted Benin objects (…). The memorial head was very heavy- metaphorically it bears the weight of trauma, disturbing history and the complexity of human relations (…).”

The IIP is a project of the artist collectives @thisisthenest (Kenya) and #SHIFT (Germany/France), the @museumsofkenya , @museenkoeln Cologne, @weltkulturenffm Frankfurt am Main, and @goetheinstitut . The exhibition project "Invisible Inventories" is funded by the @kulturstiftung

Here's a link to the last online opening on our youtube page where we have also lined up other videos that will guide you through our work🙂 youtube.com/watch?v=9IYIb5…

Have you already seen the last of our #InvisibleInventories exhibition series at the @weltkulturenffm, head over there before time flies out, maybe this weekend?

The Nigerian artist/art historian Peju Layiwola has just arrived in Cologne and we are so blessed! Her grandfather, was Oba Akenzua II, king of Benin. She will be in residency at the @rjmkoeln and will work on the RJM Benin royal artworks looted in 1897.

Have you seen our series 'a step by step tour of the Invisible Inventories' Here's a direct link to the rest of it :)🙂 web.facebook.com/watch/83629957…

Njeri Gachihi tells us about the mass of 32,500+ objects & making them visible, "shipping labels" that are a representation of each of them. The labels carry an impression of movement for these objects, each with a description of what it is, where it is & when it moved to there.

5/6 Fellow Juma George Ondeng is senior curator of the Kitale Museum in Kenya and a founding member of the @IIP, a cooperation with @goetheinstitut, @museumsofkenya @rjmkoeln, @weltkulturenffm THX @AA_Kultur @TheAdvisorsNet @mfnberlin

@AA_Kultur @DAAD_Germany @goetheinstitut @TheAdvisorsNet @mfnberlin

...about museuming with Dr. Njoki Ngumi. The exhibition #InvisibleInventories is still showing at the @weltkulturenffm till January, make a plan and drop in :) youtu.be/q-VmyQrj6t4

If you click on the photo - there are some thoughts I shared during an @iip_program event that now form part of an exhibition in Germany. The ongoing challenges of working with colonial era collections & community members considerations on future of their material culture.

also look at this by @njokingumi from @thisisthenest refering to a very sacred drum from the Pokomo community that nobody but British Museum employees have had access to or even seen for probably over 100 years. About the premise of Museuming youtube.com/watch?v=q-VmyQ…

”Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums“ is showing at the @weltkulturenffm to 9 Jan 2021 IIP is a project of @thisisthenest, #SHIFT, @museumsofkenya, @museenkoeln, @weltkulturenffm collaborating with @goetheinstitut & funded by @kulturstiftung

Displaying Absence Tuzi Creatives' (2020–2021) Digital Illustrative prints on Forex with Perspex empty casings showed first in Nairobi with 10 selected works for objects that were not available there, these imagined digital reproductions finally meet the objects in Frankfurt

Always lots to learn from Juma Ondeng'.

”Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums“ is showing at the @weltkulturenffm to 9 Jan 2021 IIP is a project of @thisisthenest, #SHIFT, @museumsofkenya, @museenkoeln, @weltkulturenffm collaborating with @goetheinstitut & funded by @kulturstiftung

Juma Ondeng’ speaks @weltkulturenffm, giving other perspectives on the Man-eaters of Tsavo: "The lions are believed to have been spirits of our forefathers resisting the invasion by the British colonial invaders..." Did you know they are in display at the Field Museum in Chicago?