This work package consolidates and builds upon the findings from previous work packages. It does so by evaluating the four interventions that are the core of this project. Through visitor surveys, the effectiveness of the new curatorial approaches will be assessed and enhanced. Ultimately, this reflection summarizes best practices around colonial university heritage, emphasizing the importance of provenance research, repatriation issues, and developing new institutional approaches. Based on the state of the art in existing policies and research findings from university heritage and collections, one of the main outputs of this work package will be a toolkit for decolonising academic heritage collections and sites. The toolkit will be made available for re-use by other heritage practitioners and university museum staff.

By examining universities’ colonial legacies from both internal and external European perspectives, this part of the project contributes to a cohesive approach of addressing the colonial past of academic institutions. In addition to the toolkit, policies, guidelines, and a white paper will be developed, enhancing existing international frameworks. Collaboration is established with international guideline-setting organizations in the field of academic heritage, such as the Universeum and UMAC.

Contributors:

 Graz University:

• Bernadette Biedermann (PI)

Utrecht University

• Gertjan Plets

University of Pretoria:

• Siona O’Connell

Studio Louter

• Sterre Berentzen

University of Geneva:

• Peter Bille Larsen