Protecting Sudan’s Memory: Museums, Communities and Recovery
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum, 12 February 2013. Photograph: David Stanley, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Unmodified pre-war photograph; it does not establish the building’s present condition or visitor access. More than a building full of objects A museum object without its record may still be beautiful. But where was it found? Who made it? How did it enter the collection? What did it mean to the people who used it? Lose those connections and part of the evidence disappears, even if the object survives. ...