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Restoration and Conservation of Ge’ez Manuscripts in War Affected North Gondor and North and South Wollo Zonal Districts

The project team from Bahir Dar University will work on conserving manuscript preparation knowledge through providing intergenerational training and workshops in conservation …

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ELDP

A linguistic description of Arammba, an endangered language of Southern New Guinea.

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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Eap 894

Endangered photographic collections about the participation of pre-industrial Bulgaria in three wars in the beginning of the 20th century

Colonel Darvingov and photographer Aleksandar Bozhinov lived through the Balkan wars and the First World War. During the wars, they collected photographs and illustrations of …

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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.

Online content

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Heritage and Recovery: A Decade of Learning from the Gorkha Earthquake

The Victoria & Albert Museum’s Culture in Crisis Programme in partnership with the University of Sterling and Social Science Baha, staged a major international conference from…

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Culture in Crisis: Gaza

This in-person event staged in April 2025 at the V&A South Kensington brought together Palestinian artists, cultural organisers and activists to discuss the impact of conflict…

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Afghanistan: Breathing Life into Heritage in a Fragile State

This in-person event, which took place at the V&A South Kensington in February 2025, brought together two cultural professionals who have been working in Afghanistan for over …

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Event Announcement: Heritage Preservation through Sound, Song and Storytelling

This event will explore the use of sound, song and storytelling as a means to create, preserve or recover important layers of understanding within built heritage sites.

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List or Update your Heritage Preservation Projects on the Culture in Crisis Portal

Each year tens of thousands of users from around the world use the Culture in Crisis Portal to register, research and reach out to heritage projects globally.

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Event Announcement: Destruction, Restoration and Commemoration

Reflect on the impact that war has had on places of worship in this special event, held in collaboration with Westminster Abbey.

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