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MEG Projects

MEG is keen to support and be involved in the development of projects that are of benefit to our members, and which help to advance the field of Museum Ethnography.

Below are details of projects, past and present, with which MEG has had a central role. For further details about each project, click on the relevant heading in the list below.

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  • ASANTE 1874: SYMBOLS, PROVERBS AND GOLD

    To celebrate the opening of the Asante Goldweights small display the V&A Academy presents ASANTE 1874: Symbols, Proverbs and Gold on Friday 15 November with an opening address by Ghana’s High Commissioner His Excellency Papa Owusu-Ankomah. THE ANTELOPE BRASS WEIGHTThe above brass weight is in the form of an antelope with extended horns. Antelopes were important animals to the Asante. Traditionally, they...

  • Guest Blog: Documenting the ‘made world’ and endangered knowledge

    Mat weaving on the island of Manono, Western Samoa; © British Museum  Today on the blog we have more information about the interesting and important Endangered Material Knowledge Programme.  Thanks to Nik Petek-Sargeant for writing it for us. In 2018 the British Museum launched a major grant programme that supports ethnographic research into knowledge associated with objects and the built environment. Named the Endangered Material...

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