Thank you, John. I didn't know that they have a mobile museum. I'd love if they'd join us here and show us some images of their traveling show. It sounds unprecedented. Wonderful!
First of all, a big thank you to John and Ruth for writing the preface to our book and for introducing it to you. This book aims to show the public our collection of more than 5000 beads, recounting the last 10 centuries of history, a painful history for the people of sub-Saharan Africa, victims of trans-Saharan and transatlantic treaties and of European colonial expansion.
Our museum is itinerant, that is to say that we travel by car, all over France, at the invitation of festivals and biennales of glass, museums, associations, municipalities and even private individuals. The beads are sewn on cardboard like sample cards and are presented in portable display cases. They are classified by origin of manufacture and by family. The museum, in its pedagogical vocation, is enriched with a whole range of objects: old Venetian glass tools, African beaded statues, royal textiles of Ghana, books and magazines, enlarged images of beads, old postcards ... A shop where we sell necklaces with collectible beads, books and postcards completes our presentation.
The book is available at a price of 20 € + postage/shipping, at the following address : guy.maurette@orange.fr or emedeceparis@gmail.com
Payment is by Paypal.
short message about this project (in case of an accident i can only use two fingers of my left hand)
https://fr.ulule.com/perles-troc/
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I met Marcia & Guy at the Bead Fair in Newmarket (UK) in June - lovely people! If I am remembering correctly, the mobile bead museum was (at that time) in their vehicle outside! But we went through some of Guy's images on his iPad, and the collection is stunning!
