The initiative was conceived as part of the Fitzwilliam’s commitment to bring culture and community together, highlighting themes of identity, legacy, and representation in a tangible, relevant way, the museum said.
“This project is about more than designing a kit,” said Michael Corley, its interim deputy director of learning and public programmes.
“It’s about these three key organisations coming together to celebrate the extraordinary ambitions of people both past and present.”
African anti-slavery activist Olaudah Equiano was born in about 1745, was sold into slavery as a child, but managed to earn enough to buy his freedom.
He married an English woman, Susanna Cullen, and lived in Soham in Cambridgeshire with their daughters.
Equiano came to prominence in the late 18th Century as a leading black campaigner for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
