MultakaOxford is project based at the Pitt Rivers Museum and History of Science Museum, part of Oxford University. The term Multaka translates from Arabic to English as ‘meeting point’. The project’s key aim is to bring people and communities together, to strengthen understanding through inter-cultural dialogue through the mutual sharing of art, stories, culture and science in the museums. MultakaOxford works with people from all over the world who live in oxfordshire and beyond, using the museums and their extensive collections as a ‘meeting point’ and as a platform to create opportunities for belonging, collaboration, learning, creativity and development.

Over the spring and summer of 2023 Multaka worked collaboratively with the Oxford Ramallah Friendship Association , The Palestinian History Tapestry , the Oxford Dabke Group and Al Am’aari Women’s Program Centre from Ramallah, Palestine to create a series of events and a pop up exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum. The purpose of the project was to celebrate and share Palestinian history, heritage and culture, with a focus on the incredible textiles (Tatreez) work created at the women’s centre in Ramallah Palestine.

About the Commission:
Between March and July 2024, this commission will be working with MultakaOxford project staff and volunteers to utilise and create a legacy a programme of work in the summer 2023 called Palestine: Pieces of Me. This commission is to create an immersive digital exhibition from the content that was collected during the partnership and to create a legacy of this important work. The digital exhibition will sit on the Pitt Rivers Museum website.
For more information and links tot he project brief - visit https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/multakaoxford-d...