The Center for Art & Public Exchange (CAPE) at the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA/the Museum) today announced the release of two publications in service to the art museum sector .
In a display hall at the Nairobi National Museum is a piece made up of 2,000 shipping labels. Each one bears data about an object taken from present-day Kenya by Europeans during the colonial period, many of them stolen. But the name of the piece is â31,302â: the number of Kenyan pieces held in European and American institutions, as cataloged by the International Inventories Programme, a Kenyan-European collective.
The collective put together this exhibition, called âInvisible Inventories,â to highlight the tens of thousands of objects plundered from Africa, and examine the legacies of that loss â the holes it has left behind in communities robbed of their heritage.Â