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New Accra museum explores architecture and art

Join the official opening of the Limbo Museum and the Limbo Architecture Lab from November 8 - 10, 2024 at 7 Nmati Lane, Accra, Ghana.

Limbo Accra. Wet Exhibition. Credit - Limbo Accra
Limbo Accra - Wet Exhibition. © Limbo Accra

Limbo Museum is founded by Limbo Accra’s Dominique Petit-Frere and Emil Grip, with Lennart Wolff, Program Director of Limbo Museum’s Architecture Lab and the AA Visiting School, as well as Limbo Museum’s founding curatorial director, Diallo Simon-Ponte.

Limbo Accra. Wet Exhibition. Credit - Limbo Accra
Limbo Accra - Wet Exhibition. © Limbo Accra

During the inauguration, Limbo Museum will hold three panels discussions to engage artists, architects, and curators from around the globe. The three panels bring together architectural and artistic approaches to restoring planetary ruins.


Limbo Museum will also host publicly accessible guided tours throughout the space to explore, examine, and understand the space as it was found in origin.

Panel 1: November 8, 2024 8 AM EST / 12PM Accra 

Ruins and Data Architectures (Webinar) [Link here.]

Description: This webinar features practitioners who are pushing the boundaries of traditional architectural practices by using research, mapping, and digital archiving tools. The panel will explore how these expanded practices can foster alternative forms of agency and empower architects as engaged citizens in their communities.


This panel sets the stage and context for how Limbo Museum’s home was created in Accra, shedding light on the ways and solutions for how ‘architectural ruins’ can be utilised within Limbo Museum’s ongoing research. 


Panelists: Courage Dzidula Kpodo (Postbox Ghana), Femi Johnson (MOWAA), Omer Gorashi (Modern Sudan Collective) , Mallory Cohen (MoMA), Olorunfemi Adewuyi (Nigerian Modernism). Moderator: Nana Biamah-Ofosu



Panel 2: November 9, 2024 

Constructive Ruins to Free Spaces

Description: This panel brings together architects, artists, and advocates to explore the transformative potential of found and inherited spaces. In the face of our planetary crisis, panelists will discuss how ruins can be reimagined as constructive free spaces for arts and community activities, fostering alternative and speculative uses.

Panelists: Ibrahim Mahama, Dominique Petit-Frère.

Remote contributors: Sofia Pia Belenky (Space Caviar), Tosin Oshinowo

Moderator: Diallo Simon-Ponte, LIMBO MUSEUM curatorial director

Panel 3: November 9 2024

From Industries of Construction to Restoration

Description: This panel unites educators, researchers, and practitioners to examine the material, social, and political dimensions of contemporary building production. It highlights innovative practices that go beyond traditional extractive industries, focusing on restoration as a way to rethink ecological and global spatial production, especially in regard to unfinished architectures.

Panelists: Laurent Gimenez (Schüco), Glenn DeRoché, Baerbel Mueller, Prof. Daniel Duah (KNUST Dean of International Affairs)

Remote contributors: Nzinga M. Boup (Worofila), Farida Abu-Bakare

Moderator: Lennart Wolff, Limbo Museum’s Director of the Limb Architecture Lab


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