Co-curating Manchester Museum’s South Asia Gallery
The multiple award-winning South Asia Gallery is increasingly being recognised as an exemplar model of working. Nusrat Ahmed shares the learnings of co-curation at national and international platforms, across heritage and higher education settings.
The gallery was created with co-curation on an epic scale spanning a five-year period and working alongside 30 community co-curators. The approach and process have decolonised museum collections and broken-down traditional museum practice.
Nusrat actively promotes social justice and is passionate about driving forward conversation around representation, inclusion, care, and other social justice issues. Her talk will explore these ambitions and demonstrate how the South Asia Gallery has fundamentally shifted who belongs in Manchester Museum, and how it continues to change the wider cultural landscape.
As a first-generation British born South Asian, Nusrat has a close attachment to her heritage and is extremely proud of her role. In this presentation Nusrat will share her own personal journey of co-curation as well as the wider learnings taken from the project.
Tickets:
Member: £3.75
Concession/Student/Unemployed: £2.75
Non-member: £5
Image credits: Gareth Gardner 2023