Wayne Modest at the National Gallery: ‘Limbo Time: Museums, Caribbean Temporalities, and the Wounds of History’

Thursday, October 31, 2024 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

• In-person event
• 380 Sussex Dr , Ottawa , ON , K1N 9N4

• Contact
• Ming Tiampo, ming.tiampo@carleton.ca, 6135202600

In this presentation, I draw on three distinct museological episodes in Jamaican history – the request for the loan (and later the return) of Taino objects to Jamaica from a British museum in the 1970s, the acquisition of a large collection of African Art objects by the National museum of Jamaica in the late 1960s, and the responses by some Jamaicans to the (Great) Jamaica exhibition of 1891 – to argue that thinking with and from the Caribbean may help museums address what I will describe as the wounds of history.

Wayne Modest is the director of content at the National Museum of World Culture (a museum group comprising the Tropenmuseum, Museum Volkenkunde, and Africa Museum) and the Wereldmuseum Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

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