Sharing Stories Across the Ocean: A Digital-Enabled Strategy for European Indigenous Museum Collections

Associated Project: Brightening the Covenant Chain

Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council

Partner: North American Native Museum (NONAM), Zurich

People: Dr Matthias Wong

‘Sharing Stories Across the Ocean’ is a digital heritage project led by Dr Matthias Wong currently in development in collaboration with the North American Native Museum (NONAM), Zurich.  

The project sets out to transform NONAM’s practices in the digital sphere, laying the framework to generate sustained dialogue between Indigenous communities and items of Indigenous origin in NONAM’s collections. Via an in-depth consultation process, this project will create a digital-enabled strategy with NONAM, which will build a sustainable digital culture within the museum and establish NONAM’s capacity to connect its collections with Indigenous communities online.

Associated links:
North American Native Museum (NONAM)

Our Museum, a UK initiative that encouraged communities and museums to work in active partnerships

Reciprocal Research Network, a platform for First Nations items from the Northwest Coast.