A strong museum sector can help to reflect to our people who we are, where we have come from, how we might move forward, and how we connect with the rest of the world. It can be a point of communion for people of all walks and social classes. Our museums and monuments should be places of learning and discovery for both young and old, and a keystone of our development.
Ghana has announced the President’s Committee on Museums and Monuments, a Commission appointed to propose new policies for the governance and organisation of The Ghana Museums and Monuments Board, (GMMB) responsible for Ghana’s museums and cultural heritage.
The remit of the Committee on Museums and Monuments is to investigate radical new ways of presenting narratives, as well as engaging communities from across social divides in Ghana, so that they might see themselves properly represented in their museums.
The President’s Committee on Museums and Monuments will present its finding in a report to be published in late 2020. Its remit covers: the history and the present state of GMMB; the organizational restructuring needed for GMMB; a new financial framework; a proposal for the management of its monuments and archaeological sites, as well as curatorial overviews of its museums; educational proposals; architectural interventions; and strategies for inventories & repatriation of Ghanaian objects.
Our civilizations and our cultures are of the oldest in the world and our museums should reflect that wealth of history, and be projections of what we are capable of for our futures.
