Museumand

About

Museumand: The National Caribbean Heritage Museum is a group that celebrates the contribution of British African-Caribbean people to life in the United Kingdom. The group is a "museum without walls" based in Nottingham, and who work with communities there and elsewhere, including mounting exhibitions in museums, universities and other places. It was founded in 2015 by Catherine Ross as the SKN (Skills Knowledge and Networks) cultural museum, and Museumand is a subsidiary of the SKN Heritage Museum Community interest company.

In 2016, Museumand was invited to be part of the University of Oxford's Oxford and Colonialism Working Group. In July 2016, as SKN Heritage Museum, they launched an exhibition 52 Genres and Counting at the Splendour in Nottingham festival. The exhibition celebrated Black British music since 1947, and toured to the Bass Festival in Birmingham and Soul Fest in Liverpool.

In 2017 and 2018, Museumand collaborated in the University of Leicester Centre for New Writing's "Caribbean Journeys" project, resulting in a book Caribbean Journeys (2018, ISBN 9781527219212), an anthology of the writings of Caribbean elders recording their life experiences. In 2017, Museumand...