At a time of major transformations in the conditions and self-conceptions of cultural history and ethnological museums worldwide, it has become increasingly important for these museums to engage in cooperative projects. This book brings together insights and analyses of a wide variety of approaches to museum cooperation from different expert perspectives. Featuring a variety of African and European points of view and providing detailed empirical evidence, it establishes a new field of museological study and provides some suggestions for future museum practice.

Thomas Laely holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and specialised in African and Museum Studies. He is the Deputy Head of the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Marc Meyer is a social and cultural anthropologist, currently working as project coordinator and assistant curator at the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Raphael Schwere is a social and cultural anthropologist working on human-animal relations, material culture of disability and museums in the Horn of Africa and East Africa. He is a PhD student and lecturer at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where he works at the Ethnographic Museum.