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Elektra Angelopoulou is the artist selected for AHEAD’s Greek hub
ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Elektra Angelopoulou /Photo by Thalia Galanopoulou HERITΛGE in collaboration with the Archaeological Museum of Messara is very pleased to announce that artist Elektra Angelopoulou has been selected as the artist to create a participatory work of art as part of the AHEAD (Accessible Heritage Experience for Audience Development) project. AHEAD is co-funded by
Architectural heritage preservation project in Ukraine going strong
Our latest project in war-torn Ukraine has recently completed its first semester. Developed in collaboration with the Kharkiv School of Architecture (now relocated to Lviv) and Skeiron, a Ukrainian organization specializing in 3D documentation, this initiative addresses the urgent need to protect Ukraine’s architectural heritage by establishing an architectural conservation course for students at the
HERITΛGE Highlights 2024
Training HERITΛGE celebrated a record-breaking milestone in 2024, training over 1,000 heritage caretakers in a single year. Participants engaged in a wide range of programs, including three-day workshops conducted online and in person, two annual summer schools focusing on digital tools and community engagement, and specialized training tailored to specific regions, topics and organizations. These
HERITΛGE delivers Seasonal School on heritage adaptation to climate change
How can climate projections help heritage professionals decide which monument needs attention first? And what does adaptation mean for a mountain community whose landscape and traditions are threatened by recurring wildfires? These were among the questions that heritage professionals and researchers brought to Athens for the first Seasonal School of the European Partnership for Resilient
Australian heritage: A letter from Bologna
By Olivia Panetta* In May 2020, Rio Tinto legally destroyed two rock shelters at Juukan Gorge in the Pilbara region. The shelters preserved evidence of approximately 46,000 years of occupation and held profound cultural significance for the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura peoples. Australian legislation made this destruction entirely legal. It occurred specifically under ministerial
Introducing our Online Academy: Build your skills and learn at your own pace.
At The Heritage Management Organization we are expanding our training offer and making our training expertise available to all at their own time with the launch of the HERITΛGE Online Academy. The Academy makes our specialist training available through flexible, self-paced online courses in heritage management. Developing your skills should be possible alongside the demands
Oral History and Heritage workshop in Monterrey
On October 8 and 9, HERITΛGE held the in-person Oral History and Heritage workshop at the Museo Estatal de Culturas Populares de Nuevo León. The workshop – part of our HerMaP Mexico initiative – provided a space for learning and exchange focused on the use of oral history to document, preserve, and transmit cultural heritage
Trainees explore Community Engagement
How can heritage practitioners create meaningful opportunities for communities to shape the ways their heritage is understood, cared for and shared? This question guided HERITΛGE’s recent four-day online workshop, Engaging Communities in Cultural Heritage, which brought together 23 participants from 18 countries. Participants joined from Poland, Lebanon, Italy, Iraq, Albania, Greece, Armenia, Rwanda, Serbia, Latvia,
Celebrating European Heritage Days at the RCH launch in Marseille
The Heritage Management Organization (HERITΛGE) marked this year’s European Heritage Days by joining our fellow consortium partners and hundreds of cultural heritage and climate professionals, researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders from around the world for the launch of the European Partnership for Resilient Cultural Heritage (RCH) in Marseille, France. RCH is co-funded by the European