27 MANAGING ART COLLECTIONS: from ancient to contemporary IVORY COAST Gon Emile Gueu Dr. Gon Emile Gueuis is Teacher of English as Foreign Language (TEFL), and lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Institut National Supérieur des Arts et de l’Action Culturelle (INSAAC) in Ivory Coast. He closely collaborates with the local heritage institutions of the country, namely the Musée des Civilisations de Ivory Coast (MCCI) over collections management, research on multilingualism and heritage democratisation, and the training of museum professionals. Seeking for international academic experience, he studied a second MA programme as a Chevening scholar and qualified (with distinction) in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies from the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK in the academic year 2022/23. He is back at INSAAC where he currently lectures. Drawing on his experience as amuseologist, a lecturer and a researcher, as well as his academic and professional networks at the local and international levels, he dreams of both creating an ethnographic museum in his native region, the Tonkpi, and opening a Department of Heritage, Museology, and Tourism at the region’s university, the University of Man. At the MCCI he works with collections presenting ethnographic, archaeological, historical, artistic, musical, and photographic objects.They are about 15,210 authentic objects originating from the four cultural areas of the country (Akan, Krou, Gur, Mandé areas) ranging from the Upper Palaeolithic Age (~10,000B.C.) to the 21st Century. Wood is the dominant material used in 60 % of the pieces devoted to masks and statuettes. Then metals (gold, bronze, brass, pewter, copper, and aluminium) are used for cast statues and jewellery which represent 15% of the collections. Textiles, terracotta, and clay come with 25% of the artefacts. Lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at the Institut National Supérieur des Arts et de l’Action Culturelle (INSAAC) - Museum of Civilizations of Côte d’Ivoire (MCCI), Abidjan, Ivory Coast
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