Elnzeer Tirab Abaker Haroun

Biography

Elnzeer has been employed since 2006 by the Sudanese National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM). He has held a variety of roles in curation and management – most recently as Director of the National Museum of Ethnography in Khartoum – where he manages to museum’s operations. Previously, Elnzeer was Assistant Curator at the Darfur Museum in Niala; Director of the Khalifa House Museum in Omdurman; and Senior Curator at the Department of Museums and the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum.

During his time at NCAM, Elnzeer has worked alongside several international archaeological projects as a state inspector and NCAM liaison, including:

• Russian scientific mission at the Darheeb archaeological site, January 2020-January 2021.
• Uronarti Regional Archaeological Project (Brown University and University of Swansea), January 2019.
• Czech National Museum archaeological mission at Wad Banqa, November 2017.

Elnzeer holds an MA in Folklore from the Institute of African and Asian Studies, University of Khartoum, Sudan.

Elnzeer presented at the 15th International Conference for Nubian Studies in August 2022 in Warsaw, Poland. His presentation was titled “Western Sudan Community Museums Darfur Heritage Survey“, and was authored alongside Eli Ibrahim El Daw Ali, and Jaffar Ibrahim Ali Fuddal. Elnzeer was also involved in the organisation of “Pharoah of the Two Lands: The African Story of the Kings of Napata” exhibition at the Louvre Museum, Paris, from April-July 2022.

During his time on the International Training Programme Elnzeer developed his knowledge of marketing, fundraising, education and exhibitions.

At the British Museum
During his time on the International Training Programme 2017, Elnzeer was based in the Department of Egypt and Sudan and spent his partner placement at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford.

In 2017 participants were asked to develop a proposal for an Asahi Shimbun Display – a temporary exhibition in Room 3 at the British Museum – based around a ‘spotlight’ object.  Elnzeer worked with fellow Qurat ul Ain (Pakistan) on his exhibition proposal project, entitled Path of Renunciation: Clothing as Symbol of Ascetic Life.

Elnzeer’s participation on the International Training Programme was generously supported by the Salomon Oppenheimer Philanthropic Foundation.