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Documentation and description of Nasa Yuwe, the vernacular language of the Nasa people of the Colombian Andes

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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Documenting MalakMalak, an endangered languuage of Northern Australia

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 the Late 19th-Century Leopard Skin Ger of Bogd Khaan

The Leopard Skin Ger was a personal belonging of the last King of Mongolia. This project includes the conservation of the ger's interior and exterior, including the outer leop…

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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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'Heritage at War: Plan and Prepare' Conference Recording

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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Heritage Now: Relevance and Community - People, Purpose, Place (5/5)

In this, the fifth and final session in the series, we reflect on the central themes of People, Purpose and Place within heritage preservation; exploring how the heritage sect…

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Heritage Now: Relevance and Community - Making Places (4/5)

In the aftermath of any crisis, the rethinking, reshaping & reconstruction of our built environment requires the careful balancing of many rival interests and priorities. In t…

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Event announcement: Sudan Crisis: Saving Memory, Preserving Futures

On 30 May, partners from Sudan Memory and the Hussein Shariffe project join with journalists, writers, activists, cultural and NGO practitioners, and political commentators, t…

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Upcoming Online Event - Culture in Crisis: Spotlight on Sudan

Bringing together voices from different disciplines within the Sudanese heritage sector, we will hear about the current threats posed to cultural heritage, as well as the emer…

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Culture in Crisis Event Announcement: Architecture Responds

This in-person Culture in Crisis event, hosted at the V&A South Kensington, programmed in collaboration with London Festival of Architecture, will explore different case studi…

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