Anamaria Rojas Munera

Anamaría focuses her PhD on the dynamics and narratives of community-based museums from South America through the lenses of sociomuseology.

Anamaría focuses her PhD on the dynamics and narratives of community-based museums from South America through the lenses of sociomuseology and alternative museologies

Anamaría Rojas-Múnera was born in the Caribbean city of Barranquilla, Colombia. She completed a Bachelor of International Relations (Universidad del Norte, Colombia) and a MA in Museum Studies with Distinction (University of Leicester, UK), before joining the Stout Research Centre as a PhD researcher in Museum and Heritage Studies. Anamaría is Board Member and Secretary of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Ethnography (ICME) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), period 2022-2025.

Her research and professional interests encompass small and medium scale museums of local and regional cultures, particularly their development history, Indigenous representation, and their social role offering emotional containment and a platform for integration for communities in isolated territories. Anamaría has worked in the last 10 years in exhibition development, research, documentation, and designing education programmes for the museums’ network from Aysén Region, one of the southernmost areas of the Americas, located in Chilean Patagonia. As part of her PhD, she will explore museums and Māori, and how Aotearoa could throw lights for Patagonian and Latin American museums, regarding the roles played by local communities in the management of natural and cultural treasures.

Contact:   anamaria.rojasmunera@vuw.ac.nz