Africa
Benin
Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Music Youth Day 2011 (5/15/2011)
Free-entry, openings, performance, educational programme.
Schoolchildren from across Parakou, the second largest city in Benin, West Africa, will be invited to the grand opening of the Museum of Music, the largest of its kind in this country. Live performances, prizes, and workshops will be conducted to celebrate the Beninese tradition of "Communicating through Music."
Contact: Mr. David Cowell
Phone: +229 97976943
Email: davecowell2@gmail.com
Address: Quartier Ladjifarani – Parakou, Benin
Website: www.irsbac.blogspot.com
Burkina Faso
ICOM Burkina
IMD 2011 (from 8am to 10pm)
Free entry, inauguration, conference, visit, performance, workshop, play activity
Donation of material to the Universitarian Hospice Centre’s persons in need
Meeting of more than 200 Burkina Faso museum professionals in Bobo-Dioulasso (about 365kms westward from Ouagadougou).
International visio conference for the launching of the French-speaking Museum International Network (RIMF).
Launching of ICOM Burkina’s website.
Reflection workshop on how do museums contribute to the development, since 1962 to nowadays (training and museum exercises, museum financing, administration…).
Baptism of the Sôgôssira Sanou Museum of Bobo-Diaoulasso and inauguration of the new permanent exhibition.
Performances by traditional music companies.
Fireside chat with notabilities about the history of Sya…
Contact : Jean-Paul Koudougou (President)
Phone : +226 70 18 00 39
E-mail : jpkoudougou@free.fr
Address: S/C 03 BP 7007 Ouaga 03 – 226 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Musée communautaire de Bamendjinda
Museum factor of bloom (from 9:00 to 17:00)
Visit, educational programme, video screening about slavery.
Our activities will consist of group visits at special rates, cultural documentary films about Bamendjinda and about slavery.
Contact: Raoul Tanedzeu Nzognou (curator)
Phone: (+237)94 05 09 35/ (+237)70 63 41 87
Email: tanedzeu20@yahoo.com
Address: BP 190 Mbouda 237 Mbouda, Cameroon
Musée des Civilisations (MDC) / Programme Route des Chefferies (PRDC)
IMD 2011 in one week at the Museum of Civilization / Programme Route des Chefferies (PRDC) (Press Conference (13 May) 10am / Guided tour (16-21 May): 9am-6pm / Conference No. 1 (16 May): 4pm / Conference No. 2 (18 May): 4pm / Show (May 21): 6:30pm)
Press conference / Free admission to the permanent exhibition for the first 100 new arrivals at the conference debates
On the occasion of IMD 2011 and to mark the golden jubilee celebrations of African independence, the Museum of Civilization / Program Route des Chefferies (MDC / PRDC) would like to share with its audience the relevance of the generic theme Museum and Memory through the vision people have of the remains of the pre-independence period to the present day Cameroon.
It is also an opportunity for the MDC / PRDC to communicate its approach in the fight against illicit traffic in cultural heritage.
Part of the entertainment programme for IMD 2011 at the MDC / PRDC aims to educate its audiences, particularly young people, on the preservation of intangible heritage by providing two artists performing two musical genres (folk and urban).
The one-week celebration (16-21 May) will be launched by a press conference in the multipurpose room of the MDC on 13 May.
Contact: Anita Kamga Fotso (Marketing and Communication)
Phone: (+237) 33.45.18.53 / 98.61.73.90
Fax: (+237) 33.45.18.53
E-mail: museedescivilisations@yahoo.fr / kamga.prdc@yahoo.fr
Address: On the shores of Lake City - BP 99 Dschang, Cameroon
Website: www.routedeschefferies.com
Kenya
National Museums of Kenya
History of Kenya (16-22 May 2011)
Workshop, educational programme.
The History of Kenya exhibition at Nairobi National Museum traces historical activities to Kenya before Kenya. The main dates go back to around 1850. Museum will be offering programmes to young children to sensitize them on the History of their nation and to ignite memories of the evolution of their young nation. Children will also be ask to narrate their stories about memories they have about Kenya's history.
On 19.05.2011, there will be a workshop in which historians will be reviewing storyline on the forthcoming exhibition on Kenya's founding father, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta.
Other NMK museums across the country will be having various programmes for the public including Lake Turkana cultural festival at Desert museum, Loiyangalani
Contact: Daniel Kibet arap Mitei (Head of Public Programmes)
Phone: +254 20 3742161
Fax: +254 20 3741424
Email: dkmitei@museums.or.ke
Address : Museum Hill Road, P.O Box 40658 – 100 Nairobi, Kenya
Website : www.museums.or.ke
Nigeria
National Museum Ataoja's Palace
Lecture and schools’ quiz competition (2-day schedule)
Performance, Workshop, Educational programme. Secondary schools quiz competition.
Public lecture on why and how museums help us to preserve memories of the past.
Quiz competition among students (to encourage them to preserve in perpetual memory our history, events, sites, artifacts and cultural heritage.)
Contact: Mr. Olakunle Makinde
Telephone: +2348064823964/0823088204
E-mail: makyinkus@hotmail.com
Address: 230001/pmb 4376 Osogbo, Nigeria
Senegal
Musée du Centre de recherche et de Documentation du Sénégal (CRDS)
Commemoration of International Museum Day (8am – 12am and 3pm - 6pm)
Free entry, conference, visit
Free visits of the museum will be given to schools for a week. It will be free only on 18 May for tourists and other visitors. A conference will be held this day on the theme Museum and Memory. Visits of memory sites will be organised for children who take part in the museum’s pedagogical and cultural animation workshops.
Contact: Aminata Gassama Sall (Deputy curator)
Phone: +221776585159
E-mail : aminata.sall@epa-prema.net
Address : 382, rue Maitre Babacar Seye – 46000 Saint-Louis, Senegal
ICOM Senegal
Cultural and scientific days (9am – 1pm, 3pm – 6pm and 9pm – 12am)
Visit, performance, educational programme
ICOM Senegal organises each year on International Museum Day scientific days that follow an essay competition for lower–sixth- and upper-sixth form students. Fifth-form students have been targeted for this year’s theme. Their programme is about memory.
A month before the days that will take place after the one organised by each museum, one museum receives all the museum professionals of Senegal and assimilated institutions and the 10 or 15 primed students during a weekend for discussions with a dinner debate, visits of sites (places of memories) and also a cultural evening. Moreover, authorities will be invited to share these moments and to enhance the prize-giving ceremony with their presence. The prizes are generally offered by partners in each town that contains a museum. This year, since the armed forces museum has a bus museum (a museum housed in a bus), which relates the history of servicemen, the bus museum will move to the host town so as to enable students and other visitors to visit the Senegalese and African military history.
Contact: Abdoulaye Toure (President)
Phone: +221774369086
E-mail : layetoure@hotmail.com
Address: Musée des forces armées, 75 boulevard de la République – Dakar, Senegal
Sudan
Sudan Natural History Museum
Documenting Our Natural History (5/18/2011)
Openings, visit, workshop, educational programme, photography competition
Sudan Natural History Museum is celebrating IMD 2011 under the theme "Documenting Our Natural History". The celebration is targeting families and school children.
Activities include special exhibitions of old animal and plant museum collections, opening of the geological collection, exhibition of Sudanese traditional objects and Natural History Photography Competition.
Contact: Dr. Abualgasim Abdelhalim
Phone: +249-91394045
Fax: +249-183-560614
Email: science@uofk.edu
Address: Gamaa street,University of Khartoum, Sudan. P.O.Box 321 – 11115 Khartoum, Sudan
Website: http://science.uofk.edu