In May, National Gallery Director Natalie Urquhart joined museum colleagues for a UNESCO Cultural Campus panel, where students from schools across Africa and the Caribbean had the opportunity to ask questions to museum leaders on topics affecting museums and their communities. Other speakers included Fatma Mostafa Abdlaziz, Vice President at the Children Museum in Cairo (Egypt), Lisel Hartman, Head of Education at the Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town (South Africa) and Helen Charman, Director of Learning and National Programmes at the V&A (London, UK). Topics ranged from the restitution of cultural artifacts, digitisation and the ‘digital divide’, climate change and museum collection stewardship, and how museum’s have been forced to adapt permanently due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To watch the full session click here.

 

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