The MuseumsLab Programme 2024 (Fully Funded)

The MuseumsLab is a curriculum designed to facilitate collaborative learning, networking, viewpoint sharing, and career development for professionals from Europe and Africa. Bringing them together to foster connections between people, organizations, countries, and two continents to have a meaningful conversation on how museums can address their history, serve the requirements of the modern world, and strive for a just and fair future.

Professionals from African and European museums with a minimum of two years’ experience in the field of museums, heritage, or art. The involvement in the entire 2024 plan. The program’s activities will run from June 6, 2024, to December 10, 2024.

• Launch Events (Virtual): June 6
• Module 1 (Virtual): June 11–13 & June 18–19
• Module 2 (In-person in Berlin): September 4–12.
• From September 12 to September (on-site, in Europe): 19Fellows allocated to a European Partner Museum are eligible to apply for residencies at European Partner.
• During November 6–13 (on-site in Africa): Fellows assigned to an African Partner Museum will be living and working at African Partner Museums.
• Module 3 (In-person in Accra): November 13–21
• Online Closing Event: December 10

Check: Singapore-ASEAN Youth Fund (SAYF) 2024

The applications will be reviewed by a selection committee made up of specialists from Europe and Africa. The following are the selection criteria:

Experiences and professional qualifications: Two years or more of hands-on experience in a museum, historic site, or creative space with an emphasis on subjects including natural sciences, technology, archaeology, architecture, and art.

Dedication to the program: Strong drive to participate actively in participation formats. The candidate must make a legally binding commitment to take part in all TheMuseumsLab activities before they may be chosen.

Personal skills:

• Collaborative skills
• Respectful communication
• Creativity & Innovativeness
• Self-responsibility
• Ability to autonomously adapt to unfamiliar surroundings
• Resilience
• Ability to constructively question established structures
• Ability to self-reflect
• Aspiration to hold a leading position within a museum, heritage site, or art space and to act as a multiplier

Language skills: Adequate language proficiency in English (written and spoken) is essential to participate actively in the program.)