The Asantehene is leading a discussion at the British Museum about the regalia presented in the Ashantis The project is led by technical advisors and members of the British Museum
The Asantehene Otumfuo, Osei Tutu II, had a discussion last Thursday with the managers of the British Museum about the events that were brought out inAshanti, especially after the Amoaful War or the 1874Ashanti war with the British.
As part of his official visit to London, he also requested a modern cultural support center and management and technical assistance at the Manhyia Palace Museum. The director of the museum, the German art historian Dr. Hartwig Fischer, vice president; Dr Jonathan Williams and Head of Department and Curator of Africa Sam Nixon and Julie Hudson supported the Asantehene who later explained that the Manhyia Museum,which is undergoing major renovation and expansion, is alive and for profit.
It needs, like all great museums, other collections to strengthen attendance and growth on a seasonal basis. This, he said, was in spite of the old British law, even as long negotiations continued. Dr Fischer, who led the BM team in the discussion,described the visit as an August visit and it will work according to the wishes of the Asantehene through the Structured Law. Previous contracts will be reviewed intime for the loan of materialsfor the Asantehene Silver Jubilee in Kumasi next year.
The Asantehene is leading a discussion at the British Museum about the regalia presented in the Ashantis Otumfuo with technical advisors-Ivor Agyeman-Duah and Malcolm McLeod The museum has also agreed to study and work on the technical framework by two of the advisers of the Asantehene: the former Curator of Ethnography at BM and the former Professor of History and Vice-Principal of the University of Glasgow, Malcolm McLeod. In 1994, he directed the creation of the Manhyia Palace Museum. The co-author of this series is historian, economist and development expert, Ivor Agyeman-Duah. The technical talks that started this week in London will also lead to a visitto the Manhyia Palace Museum, the identification of the objects in the museum for the loan agreement and other legal matters, because of the British Museum Act does not authorizepermanent removal. its summary.
BM of Dr. Fischer led will also participate in the opening and commemoration of the Manhyia Palace Museum. TheAsantehene was interested in a private view of the ongoing show, luxury and power - Persia and Greece, which focused on the Greco-Persian War.
On behalf of the Palace, the Daily Graphic confirmed that Mr Agyeman-Duah continued discussions with the director of the world's largest art and design institution, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), Dr Tristram Hunt in London. A second agreement will be signed at the Palace before February 2024.
The V&A, which has a collection of Asante badges, is planning an event for next February, which will mark the 150th anniversaryof the 1874 War. A group of Ghanaian and British artists are said to be collaborating on a memorial in London.
Next year will also be the 100th anniversary of the return fromexile in Seychelles of Asantehene Nana Agyeman Prempeh I after twenty sevenyears. In 1976 the late Asantehene Otumfuo Opoku Ware II on the occasion of the 1874 centenary made a request (return of the regalia) the director of BM Sir John Pope-Hennessy who together with the trustees later organized a great exhibition, the Asante Kingdom of Gold. which was opened by Opoku Ware II and the Duke of Gloucester, whoalso visited the Natural History Museum in New York. BM, in the process of cooperation with Manhyia at that time, trained museum curators in Kumasi in Ghana,which took place today in the main event of BM International in Africa.
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