The British Council has announced the initial projects to be supported by the Cultural Protection Fund, which will protect heritage overseas.
The money will be used by UK and international organisations to work in conflict-affected countries across the Middle East and North Africa.
Organisations will build skills so that local experts can protect their own cultural assets for future generations, ensure that sites under threat are documented, conserved and restored, and help local people to identify and value cultural heritage.
The projects are:
- Preserving Afghan heritage – a project to focus on the protection of built heritage and intangible craft skills in Kabul’s historic Old City Murad Khani
- Training in Endangered Archaeology Methodology – a project to train archaeologists from six target countries to use of an open-source recording methodology designed for conflict zones
- Training in Action – a project to train staff from Libyan and Tunisian national heritage organisations in documentation techniques, preventive conservation and heritage issues
- The new Basrah Museum – the completion of the three remaining galleries of the newly opened Basrah Museum in Iraq
- Ground survey, documentation and protection – a three-year project to survey and document a pre-Islamic Alexandrian city and 14 other sites in Iraq
- Carved in Stone – a project that aims to tackle the threat to rock-cut reliefs in Turkey
- Revival of the Mosque of Moqbil – a project to preserve and restore a traditional rock-salt mosque in the Siwa Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt.
Read the NewsBlog about the Cultural Protection Fund:
Cultural Protection Fund opens, as specialist assessors still sought
