São Paulo – Specialists in museums and curating and educators will visit South Sudan from Monday (17th) to Saturday (22nd) to discuss, with local authorities, the establishing of the South Sudan National Museum and how the collection will be exhibited. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco), they will also give lectures at universities and organize workshops at high schools to explain the importance of building and visiting museums to the Sudanese people.
The Unesco technicians already know that a museum must be interactive in order to attract the youth, first and foremost. It must also be rich in visual and aural resources and have texts and objects which recount the history of the country. According to the Unesco, the museum must adhere to sustainability norms such as low energy consumption.
Unesco recognizes that the implementing the museum will be a challenge due to power supply cuts taking place in South Sudan and the low levels of literacy among the population: half the public workers have only completed their primary education, and 73% are illiterate.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
