AQUAMUSE

Working across three river basins–the Blue Nile (Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt), the Nakambé (Burkina Faso), and the Ganga/Sundarbans (India)--AQUAMUSE is a project supported by the Water and Development Partnership Program at IHE-Delft. It envisions a future where physical and digital water museums are not only unique repositories of our liquid heritage, but also play a role in reconnecting communities to water through education, public outreach, and art. Museums as colonial establishments that record and remember the past through art and artifacts, don’t generally deal with a dynamic present much less the unknown, “fluid” future enmeshed in complexities like climate change. While extreme weather phenomena related to water are a lived reality in these river basins, the knowledge of rivers and community memory of everyday encounters with water are slowly disappearing. Our project aims to bring inclusivity to education, media, and museum making through oral storytelling and traditions of marginalized communities. Follow us on Substack: www.aquamuse.substack.com