Sierra Leone Herritage

This digital resource was launched first at the Sierra Leone National Museum in November 2011, and subsequently at a special event and exhibition at University College London in February 2012.

The ‘Reanimating Cultural Heritage’ project was concerned with innovating digital curatorship in relation to Sierra Leonean collections dispersed in the global museum-scape. Building on research in anthropology, museum studies, informatics and beyond, the project considered how objects that have become isolated from the oral and performative contexts that originally animated them can be reanimated in digital space alongside associated images, video clips, sounds, texts and other media, and thereby be given new life.