As an ongoing project throughout the six-week programme, fellows were asked to use their existing skills and experience, and the knowledge gained throughout the annual programme, to create, develop, and propose a new interpretation for an object currently on display in the British Museum.
Working in their departmental groups, with an object chosen by their departmental mentors, the fellows created a label and text panel, and other supporting material to help their object ‘speak’. The proposals were presented in an evening with British Museum staff, supporters, and members of the global ITP network.
Asia
‘Pinky’ Htet Myo Htut Aung, Museum Coordinator, U Thant House, Myanmar
Shubhasree Purkayastha, Manager, Education, Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) Bangalore, India
Xu Zecheng, Cultural Exchange Coordinator, Shanghai Museum, China
A gold ring set with a cabochon cut chysoberyl catseye; said to have come from the finger of Tipu Sultan after the Battle of Seringapatam in 1799.
Porus medallion, silver coin depicting Alexander the Great.
Asia and Money & Medals
Kang Mengjie, Assistant Research Fellow, Foreign Collection Department, National Museum of China
Wang Chaoxiang, Deputy Director of Collections Management, Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum, China
Vinay Kumar Singh Numismatic Officer, State Museum Lucknow, Culture Department, Uttar Pradesh, India
Sofia Busch, Executive Director, U Thant House, Myanmar
Africa, Oceania and the Americas (Africa section)
Richard Ohene-Larbi, Museum Educator, Ghana Museums and Monuments Board
Lillian Amwanda Ochieng, Curator, Kabarnet Museum, National Museums of Kenya
Doris Kamuye, Curator, Malindi Museum, National Museums of Kenya
Akan drum made of wood, skin and cord. Produced in Ghana
Africa, Oceania and the Americas (Americas section)
Tatiana Quevedo Mogollón, Accessibility and Inclusion Program Coordinator, National Museum of Colombia
Mattie Reynolds, Department Chair and Assistant Professor, Museum Studies, Institute of American Indian Arts, USA
Brazil, Jose Tarisson Costa da Silva Nawa, Collaborating Curator & PhD Student, National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Egypt and Sudan
Heba Abdellatif Abdelnaby, Curator & Keeper of Nubian Collection and the Late Period & Ptolemaic Sarcophagi, Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt
Heba Alders, Curator, Aswan Museum, Egypt
Model set of equipment for the Opening of the Mouth ceremony, dating to the 6th Dynasty.
Etruscan tomb painting, five baked clay panels bearing painted representations of sphinxes and groups of three figures
Greece and Rome
Holly Kunst, Research Centre Manager, Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Cyprus
Heba Hassan Amer, Curator & Head of Education, Alexandria National Museum, Egypt
Mustafa Barış Harmankaya, Culture and Tourism Expert/Archaeologist, Istanbul Archaeological Museums, Turkey
Middle East
Roqaya Al Shokri, Head of Information, Oman Across Ages Museum, Oman
Abdulrahman Al-Khafaji, Fourth Archaeological Excavator, Department of Ancient Writings, Iraq Museum, Iraq
