In 2020, ANO led the President’s Committee on Museums and Monuments, a Commission appointed to propose new policies for the governance and organisation of The Ghana Museums and Monuments Board, (GMMB) responsible for Ghana’s museums and cultural heritage. The remit of the Committee was to investigate radical new ways of presenting narratives, as well as engaging communities from across social divides in Ghana, so that they might see themselves properly represented in their museums. The Committee members reviewed existing museum restructures. The report of the first committee outlined new curatorial, architectural, financial, structural possibilities for museums, monuments and national parks. The members brought experience and expertise in fields from architecture, organisational restructuring, financing, repatriation, archaeology, art history and education. They were: Nana Oforiatta Ayim (Editor, Founder of ANO), DK Osseo Asare, Dr Edith Dankwa, Kwasi Adi Dako, Dr Dickson Adom, Magida Peregrino-Brimah, Dr Kodzo Gavua, Dr William Narteh Gblerkpor, Maame Mensah Bonsu, William Nauiban Gmayi, Afua Nkansah-Asamoah, and Agnes Allotey.

Find the Museums Report here: Museum Report 2021.pdf

In 2023, the ANOlab launched DAN to create an inventory of Ghanaian heritage in Western museums. Currently, a number of cultural items that originated in what is now known as Ghana are found in public institutions and private collections in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Portugal, Belgium, Italy and the USA. The histories of some items are greatly contested, with some items being forcefully removed from their homes through plunder, religious persecution, or scientific racism. For others, there is still uncertainty about how they ended up in museum collections.

Supported by a research grant of the Open Society Foundation to ANO.