Reimagining Maritime | Youth Responds

For the Museum's Youth Online Takeover in 2020 organised by members of the Youth Collective, the group set themselves the task of reimagining a museum where all voices are heard and where history is reinterpreted to account for a collection of untold narratives.

Here, they discuss what key objects in the Museum mean to young people, from the bust of Olaudah Equiano to Kehinde Wiley's Ship of Fools.

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Billy Waters, T.L. Busby

Olaudah Equiano – African, slave, author, abolitionist, Christy Symington

Ship of Fools, Kehinde Wiley

The United Service, Andrew Morton

Two Ladies of Barbadoes, Captain Edward Pelham Brenton