Uncontainable Collections
Gus Casely-Hayford

Gus Casely-Hayford OBE spoke to the development of the V&A East Museum and V&A East Storehouse in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, set to open in 2024 and 2025. Casely-Hayford provided the vision for how diverse communities will have immersive opportunities to engage with and be in relation with museum collections, contemporary artworks, and archives.

Gus Casely-Hayford OBE is a scholar, professor, curator, and director of the V&A East in London, UK, set to open in 2025. As an art historian who writes, lectures, and broadcasts widely on African culture, he is also Professor of Practice at SOAS in the Centre of African Studies. Casely-Hayford is the former director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC, and well known for his major BBC television series The Lost Kingdoms of Africa, using new archaeological and anthropological research to explore the pre-colonial history of some of Africa’s most important kingdoms.

The Uncontainable Collections Research Project is funded in part through the support of the Elizabeth L. Gordon Art Program, a program of the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation and administered by the Ontario Arts Foundation.

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Uncontainable Collections 2024

Uncontainable Collections 2024

podcast series
Summer 2024

Uncontainable Collections 2023

Uncontainable Collections 2023

research project
4 May 2023

Uncontainable Collections 2022

Uncontainable Collections 2022

research project
20 Apr 2022

Sanchita Balachandran

Sanchita Balachandran

Uncontainable Collections
Spring 2022

M. NourbeSe Philip

M. NourbeSe Philip

Uncontainable Collections
Spring 2022

Ciraj Rassool

Ciraj Rassool

Uncontainable Collections
Spring 2022