The Museum of Black Futures is a traveling art and heritage station that works with performance, ritual, music, and podcasts to imagine new futures. And during the Museumnacht Amsterdam, The Museum of Black Futures took over The Bookshop at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam. We center Afrofuturism, the imagination of Black Futures, and seek a state of zero colonial gravity. Together, we've turned the theatre into our own Radical Space Station.

During this evening filled with performance and conversation, we have transformed Theater aan de Rijn into our museum for the night. Our theme? Returning to the Sacred Mother. Together, we explored how we can reverse the Door of No Return — through exhibitions, artworks, and museum practices that help us imagine new futures. A form of reparations that goes beyond financial compensation, one in which we ourselves are in charge.

We can only enforce repatriation and reparation if we are the owners and make the community shareholders.

Shortly after the recording of our very first Museum of Black Futures event I was contacted by the Congregation of the Holy Spirit.

Something needs to change in Gelderland's cultural landscape. Disagreements about the maintenance and direction of the Africa Museum in Berg en Dal led to the closure of the institute. A group of Afro-Europeans has now decided to take matters into their own hands by initiating a new museum project.

A group of Afro-Europeans has decided to invest their share of the payments in a unique museum project: The Museum of Black Futures.

Thanks to Ayaan Abukar I was part of a Dutch delegation of artists and researchers that investigate the Black Diaspora in Europe.