Si Hene · Accra
Archive Lab
Access and Repository for Cultural Heritage Information and Visual Exploration
A research space in Accra with computers and scanners. Do your own research, reserve a desk, or explore what Si Hene holds.
Enrich your research with primary sources
Explore photographs, documents, maps, stamps, recordings and objects about Ghana, Africa and the Black diaspora, from the Si Hene Archives and partner institutions around the world.
Browse the Digital DatabaseA place to come and research
The ARCHIVE Lab is a research space at the Si Hene Cultural Centre, with computers, scanners and desks you can reserve. Bring your own project and work at your own pace, or look through Si Hene’s collections on Ghana, Africa and the Black diaspora with an archivist on hand when you need one.
The room is also where the Foundation trains. Workshops run in the same space, on the same equipment, so that what is taught can be practised immediately. Everything the ARCHIVE Lab teaches is written up in the Digital Toolkit.
Explore the Digital Toolkit →
Si Hene Cultural Centre
Equipment and services
6 servicesReserve a desk with a computer and work on your own research, at your own pace.
Flatbed and overhead scanning of documents, albums, negatives and bound volumes at archival resolution.
Consult originals and archive files from Si Hene’s collections, with an archivist present.
Bring a box, a trunk or an album. We look at it with you and set out what to do first, free.
Scheduled workshops in the ARCHIVE Lab, and in-house sessions for institutional teams.
Multi-year digitization and cataloguing programmes planned with museums, universities and councils.
Photographs, documents, oral histories, objects, places and people, with the records that describe them.
The guides, templates and training the ARCHIVE Lab uses, written for people working at home or in a community.
Members get reduced session rates, priority booking and the member-only toolkit resources.