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ELDP

The Maku'a Pilot Project: documenting an enigmatic moribund language in East Timor

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create mult…

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ELDP

Documenting the Royal Honorific Language of Bafut, a Grassfields Bantu Language of North West Cameroon

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create mult…

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Conservation of Kaipure Tomb Chapel and Palace of Merenptah

This project was to undergo conservation of two masterpieces of pharaonic architecture at the Penn Museum, the throne room from the palace of Merenptah at Memphis and the lime…

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Welcome to the Culture in Crisis Portal

This free digital resource is a demonstration of the V&A’s ongoing commitment to protecting the world’s cultural heritage and supporting communities that suffer cultural loss, whether through Conflict, Criminal Acts or the impacts of the Climate Crisis. The Culture in Crisis Programme brings together those with a shared interest in protecting cultural heritage, providing a forum for sharing information, inspiring and supporting action and raising public awareness.

With your support the Culture in Crisis Portal will become the world’s largest and most accessible database of cultural heritage preservation projects. It enables its users to quickly and easily register their preservation projects, as well as searching for those already in existence.

Together we can learn from each other, share experiences and work to protect the world’s cultural heritage.

To do this, we need your help.

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Destruction by Design: The Legacies of Damage to Cultural Heritage (2024)

On 20 September 2024, The Victoria and Albert Museum’s Culture in Crisis Programme, in partnership with University of Stirling and V&A Dundee, staged this international confer…

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Future-Proofing Heritage

The London Festival of Architecture (LFA), the V&A’s Culture in Crisis Programme, International National Trust Organisation and World Monuments Fund were pleased to work toget…

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Preserving the Past: Strategies for Culture in Crisis – Fire

The first webinar was on the subject of Fire featured Nina Kjølsen Jernæs (Paintings Conservator at NIKU, the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research) and Emma Cobu…

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News & events

Culture in Crisis

Call for Funding Applications - Modern Endangered Archives Funding Round 2024-5

MEAP invites applications for its seventh cohort of projects to document, digitize, and make accessible collections at risk from environmental conditions, political uncertaint…

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Publication Announcement: Heritage at War: Plan and Prepare

Emerging from and building upon the international conference coordinated by the Culture in Crisis Programme and held at the V&A South Kensington in February 2023, this book ad…

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EAP conference

Upcoming Conference: Timeless Archives, Timely Connections: Preserving Endangered Documentary Heritage and Inspiring Collaboration

This international conference will bring together many of the institutions, individuals and activists in documentary heritage preservation. There will be sessions on EAP, pres…

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