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Conserving sudan cultural heritage

Conserving Sudanese Cultural Heritage

This two-year project aims to conserve and digitise a range of written and photographic material held in archives in Sudan.

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ELDP

Documentation of endangered Tungusic languages of Khabarovskij Kraj

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

Typological aspects of Inuit Sign Language (Canada)

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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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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Architecture Responds

This in-person Culture in Crisis event, hosted at the V&A South Kensington in June 2023, was programmed in collaboration with London Festival of Architecture and explored diff…

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Spotlight on Sudan

Since the outbreak of direct conflict in Sudan in April 2023, the world has witnessed ‘an already precarious humanitarian situation become catastrophic’. In this online event,…

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Conference Recording: Heritage at War: Plan and Prepare (2023)

In February 2023, The Victoria and Albert Museum’s Culture in Crisis Programme, in partnership with the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester staged an inter…

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News & events

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The V&A and Republic of Yemen announce historic agreement to research and care for four ancient objects ahead of their safe return

The works will be exhibited to the public as part of a new Culture in Crisis display, at V&A East Storehouse from 2025.

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Culture in Crisis

Call for Abstracts: The Fourth Silk Cities International Conference: 'Intangible Heritage, Cities and Communities: along the Silk Roads and beyond...'

Silk Cities is organising its 4th international conference with academic and professional support of our collaborators in Tunisia and the UK: The Bartlett Development Planning…

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Culture in Crisis

Call for Papers: Reporting Heritage Destruction: A Double-Edged Sword?

We are delighted to share the call for papers for the online conference 'Reporting Heritage Destruction: A Double-Edged Sword?' with you, organized by the University of Oxford…

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