South Sudan’s National Museum

The South Sudan’s National Museum is a place where the people of South Sudan can tell their stories, discover their common heritage, and find a forum for a constructive dialogue between meaningful pasts and desirable futures.

National Museum was designed with the innovative approach of conducting a fully participatory process for the establishment of the institution and the aggregation of its collection through the involvement of local communities from inception. This has taken the form of a mobile museum visiting remote areas to foster dialogue with communities on how they see themselves being represented in the Museum.

The visited communities form an integral part of the project, bringing together the collection, which consists of video footage, audio recordings, life stories, photographs, and objects. To date the communities have contributed with approximately 81 objects, 55 recordings and 44 short videos.