Black history

Q&A | ‘It was important not to wait for a finished narrative’

Lucy Edematie on Manchester Museum's Africa Hub, a new type of space that exposes the gaps and silences in the museum's own records

Representations of Blackness at Vienna’s Belvedere Museum

How Tayla Myree is bringing a much-neglected discussion to the public with her tour exploring Black iconography in the museum's artwork

Europe after empire

Gary Younge introduces a series of articles that explore how decolonisation is being approached in European museums

What’s in a name?

Tracing ancestry through a surname uncovered a complex history shared by many, writes Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann

President intervenes to resolve row over Museum of West African Art

New museum has postponed all opening events amid protests about its role and mission

Political row delays opening of Nigeria’s Museum of West African Art

Edo state governor revokes land ownership rights in dispute over museum’s name and mission

Studio Museum in Harlem reopens after seven-year redevelopment

The organisation was founded in 1968 to address the exclusion of artists of African descent from the mainstream art world

Bookworm

From contemporary art's relationship to the environment to Black Victorian Britain

Museum sector pays tribute following death of Geoff Palmer

Scientist and human rights activist chaired Empire, Slavery and Scotland’s Museums project

Q&A | ‘Archives can offer a cathartic moment that transcends time and space’

Decolonising the Archive co-founder Connie Bell on how the organisation is shaping a non-western model for archival practice

Science and Industry Museum teams up with Guardian newspaper on slavery exhibition

Project aims to increase public understanding of Manchester’s historic connections to enslavement

How Beyond the Bassline captured the hard-earned joy of Black British music

Miles Greenwood discovers a deeper narrative at this British Library exhibition