The exhibition Faces on display: Icelanders and others at the Canary Museum in the National and University Library of Iceland deals with part of the subject of the book of the same name by Kristín Loftsdóttir, published by Sögufélag in 2023. In Faces on display, the focus is on a small museum with casts of people from different parts of the world, which were made in the 19th century. The book is the result of Kristín's research, which covers the Canary Islands, mainland of Spain and France, and analyses transnational relationships that were created through race science. Anna Lísa Rúnarsdóttir is the editor of the book, but Anna Lísa and Kristín are the curators of this exhibition.

The research on the museum in the Canary Islands is part of the research project Creating Europe through Racialized Mobilities (CERM), which deals with different aspects of (im)mobility in Europe, especially with regard to racism and the relationship between past and present in the legacy of imperialism.

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