15/08/2025
🛎️ New Tour Alert: African Legacies in Cambridge Museum Tour 🛎️
14 September & 19 September @ 14:30
Meet at Fitzwilliam Museum, Courtyard Entrance
Step inside Cambridge’s world-renowned museums for a thought-provoking journey into local African collections and histories. This guided walking tour is inspired by the groundbreaking African Collections Futures Report by Dr Eva Namusoke (2024), a landmark survey that examined over 350,000 artefacts of African origin and up to 200,000 natural history specimens held across the University of Cambridge’s museums, gardens, and libraries.
The report’s findings reveal that the vast majority of these African objects entered Cambridge’s collections during the British colonial period — through scientific expeditions, purchases, gifts, commissions, and, in some cases, outright looting. On this tour, we will bring these histories to life, exploring how both African objects and African people — as artists, scientists, collectors, and workers — have shaped the collections and knowledge we see today.
Join us by clicking the link in our bio & booking these two exciting tours!
