"Who owns Egyptian heritage?" with Heba Abd El Gawad
Egyptian artefacts appear in museums around the world, but how did they get there and why are Egyptian voices so often absent from the narratives around them?
Our guest in this episode is Heba Abd El Gawad, an Egyptian Egyptologist and lead researcher for ‘Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage’, a project putting modern day Egyptians at the heart of the conversation about Egyptian heritage.
Working with Egyptian comic artists and including the input of the public in Egypt, the project tries to confront colonial legacies of ancient Egyptian displays in Western museums like that in Manchester and question what role Egyptian archaeology has played in shaping how the world today perceives and represents ancient Egypt. Building on a series of events in the UK, Heba describes some of the key factors to consider when asking ‘Who Owns Egypt’s Heritage?’
Episode 2 transcript
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Manchester Museum is on a mission to become the most imaginative, caring and inclusive museum in the world, and in this podcast we will share open and honest conversations with special guests, which will inform, entertain and inspire.
Through these conversations we hope to reframe what it means for museums to care, and explore how we can build understanding, empathy and love for our world and each other.
We want to raise awareness of rarely told and overlooked histories. The first series of the podcast will explore this theme, developing on some of the projects and exhibitions where we are helping shed light on the things they didn’t teach us in school.
Find out more about the Manchester Museum:
The Things They Didn't Teach Us
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Original music courtesy of Move 78:
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