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Documentation of the Early 19th-Century First Baptist Church in Mawlamyine

This project includes a condition survey, conservation plan, and site documentation.

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Honor Frost Foundation Lebanon Team

Honor Frost Foundation Lebanon Team

Recent growing coastal urbanization in Lebanon has constituted one of the main threats to the coastal and underwater archaeological resource in the country. The Honor Frost Fo…

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Film censorship in Argentina (1969-1984)

The Museo del Cine "Pablo Ducrós Hicken" Library and Archive contains documents of testimonies covering a period of turmoil and upheaval in Argentina, including articles, inte…

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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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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

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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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Save the Date: Edited Volume of 'Heritage at War' to be Published on 15th October 2024

A new publication ‘Heritage at War – Plan and Prepare’ edited by Mark Dunkley, Lisa Mol and Anna Tulliach with a foreword by V&A Director Tristram Hunt is due to be published …

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