Visiting the MARKK Museum in Hamburg

This week we had the pleasure of being hosted by the MARKK Museum for two days of meetings and discussions with part of the team we have been working on for the past years for the project “Digital Benin”.

A newer version of Digital Benin will be soon shared online together with a couple of digital tools we have conceived and developed with the researchers to help other teams working with dispersed collections and provenance data. It was also the occasion to visit the exhibition “Benin. Looted History” that display the Benin objects that were part of the MARKK Museum collection, now restituted to the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), the federal body responsible for overseeing Nigeria’s museums and cultural heritage.