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Preserving Manuscripts in the Al-Aqib Library, Sankoré Mosque of Timbuktu

The Al-Aqib Library at the Sankoré Mosque in Timbuktu holds a unique manuscript collection, which remained in Timbuktu during the armed attacks of 2012. This project will impr…

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Cultural Corridors of Peace

This project will collect, archive and share the traditional skills and living memory of the Bedouins of Bekaa in Lebanon. The Bedouin are a group of nomadic peoples who have …

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Preserving and Digitising the Historic Newspaper, The Barbados Mercury Gazette

The Barbados Mercury and Bridgetown Gazette - a newspaper printed bi-weekly in Barbados, West Indies, from 1783 to 1839 - is a resource in the recovery of the identities of en…

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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 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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Registration open for National Conference on Cultural Property Protection 2025

LEVERAGING PARTNERSHIPS: Collaborative Approaches to Cultural Property Protection. Join colleagues from around the world and explore the future of cultural heritage protectio…

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Webinar23 May

Architectural Heritage Preservation in Times of War: The Ukrainian Model: Cultural Heritage and Recent Armed Conflicts

This upcoming webinar, organised by the Heritage Management Organisation, in partnership with the Kharkiv School of Architecture and Skeiron, focuses on a long list of heritag…

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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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