MOBILIZING, Benin Heritage in Swiss Museums

118pp., map, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich, 2024

ISBN: 9783039421985

Mobilizing: Benin heritage in Swiss Museums presents the provenance research undertaken at eight Swiss museums on their Benin collections and the dialogue on the objects’ history and future with partners in Nigeria. It includes biographies of individual items and examples of mediation and exhibition practice.

Esther Tisa Francini is head of archives and provenance research at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich and co-director of the Benin Initiative Switzerland.

Alice Hertzog is a social anthropologist working as a provenance researcher at the University of Zurich’s Ethnographic Museum.

Alexis Malefakis is a curator at the University of Zurich’s Ethnographic Museum in charge of the Africa collection.

Michaela Oberhofer is curator of art from Africa and Oceania at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich and co-director of the Benin Initiative Switzerland.