Gaia Delpino

Gaia Delpino (PhD) is a anthropologist specialized in African studies and anthropology of contemporaneity. She researched in Ghana on topics related to memory, cultural heritage, the Atlantic world, the so-called roots tourism and mining. At the Museum of Civilizations she is curator of the African Arts and Cultures collections and those coming from the former Colonial Museum in Rome. On both collections she promotes participatory processes and carries out, follows and enhances interdisciplinary research aimed at studying their history, provenances, meanings and narratives. Gaia Delpino participates in national and international projects related to the study, conservation, accessibility and dissemination of the Museum of Civilizations’ African collections.