Project summary:
This ambitious project will completely renovate the currently inaccessible Ethnographic Museum in central Khartoum, protecting it from the impacts of climate change induced flooding, create a new landmark domed roof and improved facilities for visitors. The project will also meaningfully engage pastoralists in Darfur and Kordofan, empowering local communities to record accounts of their own living heritage. This will inform new displays in the Ethnographic Museum, enabling people to engage with the critically important collections related to Sudanese intangible culture.
Target countries:
Sudan
Award date:
October 2022
Lead organisation:
Partners:
- Sudan National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, Sudan
- British Institute Eastern Africa, UK
- ICCROM-ATHAR Regional Conservation Office, UAE
- Cambridge Heritage Research Centre (CHRC) and Mapping Africa’s Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments Project (MAEASaM), UK
- Centre for Darfur Heritage, University of Nyala, Sudan
- Durham University: Archives and Special Collections, Sudan Archive, UK
- British Museum, UK
- Sudan Memory, France
Grant amount:
£1,987,756
