Cracks in the Dome Fractured Histories of Empire in the Zanzibar Museum 1897 1964 1st Edition by Sarah Longair ISBN 9781317158769 1317158768

1 Museum Precedents: British Imperial Culture, Collecting and Display in Zanzibar, 1897–1922

Political, Economic and Administrative Transformations: 1897–1922

The Culture of Colonial Governance

Early British colonial Displays of Objects

The Zanzibar Exhibition of 1905

Two Early Museum Ventures

2 ‘Muskiti ya Bwana Sinclair’: Building the Peace Memorial Museum, 1919–1925

‘An Embryo Architect’ in Late Nineteenth-Century London

‘Sufficiently Arabesque’: Designing Mombasa Cathedral

Experiments in Eclecticism: Sinclair’s Zanzibar Buildings

Seeking Sinclair’s Sources of Influence

Commissioning the Peace Memorial

Constructing the Peace Memorial: Collapse and Sinclair’s Departure

Redesigning the Museum: Reconciling the Practical with the Monumental

Interpreting the Building

Reception and Legacy of Sinclairian Saracenism

3 ‘The Same Breed of Museum Worker’: Curators, Collaborators and the Museum Community, 1925–1942

Intersecting Professional Spheres: Museums, the Colonial Office and Africa

Curating the New Museum: Dr Alfred Henry Spurrier

Spurrier’s Associate: William Harold Ingrams

The Changing Context of Curating: Ailsa Nicol Smith

‘There is a limit to one’s patience’: Nicol Smith’s Resignation

Nicol Smith’s Associate: Muhammed Abdulrahman

The Museum Staff

4 Trusteeship of Culture: Acquisition and Display of the Museum’s Collection, 1925–1942

Constructing Zanzibar at Wembley7

Acquiring the Zanzibar Museum’s Collection

Researching the Museum’s Collection

The Space for Exhibition

Exhibiting and Memorialising Zanzibar: the Historical Section

Local Productions: The Native Industries and Agricultural Sections

Ephemeral Displays: the First Annexe and Temporary Exhibitions

Natural History: the Local and the Unusual

5 Explaining the ‘Puzzling New World’: Education and Reaching Out beyond the Museum, 1925–1942

Colonial Education in Africa

Education in Colonial Zanzibar

The Growth of Museum Education in Britain and Zanzibar

Teaching through the Museum’s Collection: Programmes for Schools and Adults

Public Health Education

New Resources and Media: the Library and the Cinema

Taking Education beyond the Museum

The Impact of the Museum

6 The Museum and ‘the Unhappy Archives’: Preserving Zanzibar’s Past in the Era of Decolonisation, 1942–1964

Memorialisation: Extending the Museum?

Post-war Development

Ethnicity and Representation in the Museum

Advocates and Experts

Separating ‘the Sheep from the Goats’: Creating and Editing a Colonial Archive

Designing and Locating a Suitable Building

The Museum and Archives in Post-Revolutionary Zanzibar: Transforming Spaces and Displays

Conclusion

Concepts

Lives

Cultures

‘Yes, of course we must have a Museum’.14

Appendix 1 List of Curators, Sultans, Consuls General and Residents to 1964

Curators of the Zanzibar Museum

Al-Busaidi Rulers of Zanzibar:

British Consuls General (Foreign Office)

British Residents (Colonial Office)

Appendix 2 Detailed descriptions of photographs of the Museum in the 1920s and 1930s

Bibliography

Archival Sources (Archives, Libraries, Museums)

Secretariat

Zanzibar Protectorate 1891–1913

Registered Files

Land Survey and Plans

Official Government Reports and Publications

Private Papers

Government Archive and Museum

International Conferences

Newspapers

The National Archives (Public Record Office), Kew, UK

Kenya National Archives, Nairobi

Newnham College Archives, University of Cambridge

British Library, London

Cambridge University Library

Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh

Rhodes House Library, University of Oxford

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge

National Museum of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam

National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi

Royal Geographical Society

Uganda Museum

Zanzibar National Museum Library

Printed Zanzibar Museum Reports

Periodicals and Newspapers (with Dates Consulted)

Index