Losing Daylight: a permanent exhibition of Nollywood's history opens at Glover Memorial Hall

Losing Daylight, a permanent exhibition documenting the history of the Nigerian film industry, opened at Glover Memorial Hall in February 2025. It is a collaboration between The MoNICA Centre — the Museum of Nigerian Cinema and Art, a registered non-profit — and Lufodo Group, which manages the Hall under concession.

The exhibition is multisensory rather than a display of framed stills: vintage posters, period equipment, scripts, VHS tapes, costumes and installations, assembled as a working record of how the industry was built and what it produced.

The choice of building is the point. Glover Memorial Hall hosted the first public film screening in Nigeria in 1903, at the invitation of Herbert Macaulay, and has carried the country's performance history ever since. Joke Silva, Co-CEO of Glover Memorial Hall, described the Hall as “a perfect fit” for the exhibition.

Taiwo Adeyemi, Director of The MoNICA Centre, has framed the work as urgent — the material record of an industry that changed African cinema is fragile, dispersed, and in many cases already lost.

Losing Daylight is open to visitors at Glover Memorial Hall, 4 Customs Street, Marina, Lagos Island.