Visit National Museum Lagos

On 24 January, Dr Barbara Morovich, IFRA-Nigeria director, and Marie Lureau, research project manager, visited the National Museum Lagos and had the privilege to meet its curator, Mrs Nkechi Adedeji and the dedicated team of the Nigeria Alternative Heritage project lead by Mr Busari. The project was made possible by the French Embassy Fund.

Thank you to Mrs Nkechi Adedeji and the project team for welcoming us and for sharing our motivation to share Nigeria's alternative heritage. Visit the National Museum Lagos Archives website inaugurated last year and to learn more about our exciting visit, click below.

On 24 January, Dr Barbara Morovich, IFRA-Nigeria director, and Marie Lureau, research project manager, visited the National Museum Lagos and had the privilege to meet its curator, Mrs Nkechi Adedeji, who briefed them on the progress achieved so far. After this discussion, the IFRA-Nigeria team met the team working on the project lead by Mr. Busari. Accompanied by the curator, they visited the archives and storage facilities to learn more about the objects selected and the programme's organization. 

Barbara Morovich thanked the team for their incredible achievements in pushing the project forward, and their important work in preserving and making accessible Nigerian heritage. Finally, before their departure they had the chance to visit both the temporary and permanent exhibitions of the Museum, which display very well Nigerian tradition, and both established and new Nigerian artists. Thank you to Mrs Nkechi Adedeji and the project team for welcoming us and for sharing our motivation to share Nigeria's alternative heritage.

As part of the Fund for Solidarity and Innovative Projects (FSPI) and now French Embassy Fund (FEF) investment of the French Embassy in Nigeria, IFRA-Nigeria is collaborating with the National Museum Lagos amongst other institutions throughout Nigeria, for the program Nigeria Alternative Heritage. The objective of this program is to put digital technologies, as well as French and Nigerian expertise, at the service of the protection, enhancement, and dissemination of Nigerian heritage processes to different local and global communities. In practice, it is a response to the growing challenges in the world of research of Nigerian cultural and heritage studies with the objective to improve the protection, conservation, dissemination, and training about heritage and develop sustainable capacity in this area. As part of this program, the Museum inaugurated the National Museum Lagos Archives website in 2024.