Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay on 20 September (HL9874), what plans they have to support the International Training Programme; how many African museum curators have benefited from it in each of the past three years; and from which countries they have come.

Over the past three years, 16 museum curators from across Africa have participated in the British Museum’s International Training Programme; this includes participants from the following countries and institutions:

2023

Archeological Enfidha Museum, Tunisia

National Museum, Nigeria

Unity Museum, Nigeria

National Museums of Kenya, Kenya

Imhotep Museum, Egypt

Alexandria National Museum, Egypt

2022

Luxor Museum, Egypt

Akhenaton Museum, Egypt

Sudan National Museum, Sudan

Unity Museum, Nigeria

The National Institute of Heritage, Tunisia

2021

Ghana Museums and Monuments Board, Ghana

Edo Global Art Foundation, Nigeria

Sudan National Museum, Sudan

Gebal Barkal Museum, Sudan

More details on the International Training Programme, including its funders, can be found in the annual reports that the British Museum publishes: https://www.bmitpglobalnetwork.org/publications/annual-reports/.