Paul Michael

Biography

Paul is a Principal Curator and Curator-in-charge at the Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Museum Centre, National Museum of Tanzania. His role includes:

• managing and supervising all administrative matters and functions of the museum centre
• planning and implementing public education programmes for museums
• planning and executing special museum programmes
• documenting museum collections
• maintaining collection care from acquisitions, conservation, documentation and data sharing
• providing collections access to research communities
• developing proposals for collection improvement and museum initiatives
• developing, producing, and disseminating marketing and publicity materials
• interpreting and implementing publicity strategies
• implementing cultural tourism programmes and packages

In July 2014, Paul attended training on Conservation Technology for Cultural Relics of English Speaking Countries in Africa. The training was held at The Central Academy of Cultural Administration, Beijing, China.

In 2017, Paul completed a master’s degree in Education Curriculum Development and Teaching. His dissertation was based on Assessing the Factors Affecting the Performance of Museum Education Programmes for Tanzanian Primary Schools. 

At the British Museum
During his time on the International Training Programme in 2012, Paul was based in the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas and his partner placement was spent at Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives.

In 2012, an element of the programme was a series of presentations, in which groups of participants presented a 10-minute illustrated talk, prompted by the task to consider a new display at the British Museum. Paul’s exhibition project proposal, working with his colleague Ishaq Mohammad Bello (Nigeria), was entitled The game with many names.

Legacy Projects
In December 2017 Paul attended the ITP+ course on Photography and Documentation. In a series workshop, spread over a 5 day period, fellows attended seminars, creative workshops, hand-on session and practical group work with colleagues from the British Museum. The aim of the programme was to further the professional development and reconnect the alumni from the summer programme.

ITP Newsletter Publications
ITP Newsletter Issue 5 (2018), Learning and engagement: Learning and engagement at the National Museum of Tanzania