Cultural Heritage & Museums Archives

Calls for Online Contributions for 2020 European Heritage Days

On the 13th of September, Germany will once again take part in European Heritage Days, but this year it will be in a digital format.

Cultural Heritage Protection in a post-Covid Landscape: DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

Hosted by the V&A’s Culture in Crisis Programme, these live-streamed workshops will be held every fortnight on Thursday at 4pm (BST/UK time) over a period of 10 weeks, from 25 June to 20 August 2020.

Corona: a curse and a blessing for digital collection research

The digital transformation of heritage institutions, whether or not in function of the increasingly digital scientific research itself, has been a hotly debated topic for decades.

NEMO report on digitisation and copyright

In order to identify challenges that museums in Europe encounter when digitising their collections and establishing online access to them, NEMO conducted a survey on digitisation and copyright.

Book exhibitions and their audiences during COVID-19 , a survey

The data from this survey will be analysed and discussed during a webinar organized by CENL on 29 October 2020.

1 out of 4 museums in The Netherlands fear permanent closing due to COVID-19

A survey by the Netherlands Museums Association indicates that one out of four Dutch museums are in danger of closing permanently within the next year due to financial losses connected to COVID-19. The Museums Association demands adequate funding to help museums through the crisis.

Middle-digital earth: Museums between digital and emergency. Data, stories and impact

An international web conference. June 29, 30 & 1st July.

Europa + Heritage Support Grant

This supporting grant can also be considered as knowledge exchange in how to deal with the challenges related to the Covid crisis within the field of heritage. Scheme consist of seven grant of 5.000 euro.

NEMO: a map of planned museums’ reopening

Click on a country to learn about the current situation for its museums, their digital strategies, and plans to re-open. The map is created by the Network of European Museum Organisations with the help of its members.

Historic England

Historic England is the public body that helps people care for, enjoy and celebrate England’s historic environment. It protects, champions and saves the places that define the English identity.
It is working with communities and specialists who share the same passion, knowledge and skills to inspire interest, care and conservation.

Literary art Diary

Literary art Diary is a creative initiative that links cultural institutions with creatives to rethink culture as an open space without limits.

Ingegnarsi

“Ingegnarsi” event wanted to react to the covid 19 situation and to provide an alternative and resilient way to celebrate this important moment for the city by organising a 4-day on line event that has reached over 5.000 people.

Re-thinking Urban Heritage for Recovery and Resilience

World Heritage City Webinar 17 June.

Museums, museum professionals and COVID-19

A report on how the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak is affecting and
will effect the cultural sector in the short and long term.

ICOMOS – International Council on Monuments and Sites

ICOMOS works for the conservation and protection of cultural heritage places. It is the only global non-government organisation of this kind, which is dedicated to promoting the application of theory, methodology, and scientific techniques to the conservation of the architectural and archaeological heritage. ICOMOS is a network of experts that benefits from the interdisciplinary exchange of its members, among which are architects, historians, archaeologists, art historians, geographers, anthropologists, engineers and town planners.

Europa Nostra Digital Agora

Born as a creative response to the confinement and physical distancing implemented to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, this virtual platform aims at sharing and promoting digital best practices related to culture and cultural heritage from across Europe and the world.

Racconti per Ricominciare (Stories to start over) – performing arts live event

“Racconti per Ricominciare” project was born with the aim of helping the cultural and theatre sectors by encouraging the population to overcome the Covid-19 isolation and fear.

Launch of UNESCO Report on museums around the world in the face of COVID-19

UNESCO launched a new Report on Museums Around the World in the Face of COVID-19, fruit of an international survey targeting museums, culture professionals and Member States.

Survey- Internationalisation of music diversity in times of COVID-19

A survey in order to come up with alternatives for the internationalisation of music diversity during the health crisis.

FRH Conversations

A series of interviews of FRH members.

The impact of Covid-19 on Religious Heritage organisations

A survey on the impact of Covid-19 on Religious Heritage organisations.

The Sounds of Solidarity Movement

An initiative of churches all over Europe in order to show their solidarity in the period of the crisis.

#facciamomemoria campaign: grass-roots COVID life stories, images and objects to be archived for the future historians

Fondazione Museo storico del Trentino launched a social campaign in the early days of the pandemic crisis in order to collect letters, diaries, photographs, videos from local citizens willing to share their “new” everyday lives.

A digitalised collection of documents about epidemics from the Historical Archives of Compagnia di San Paolo

An early example of social assistance.

Future for Religious Heritage (FRH)

FRH the only organisation of its kind, is a not for profit, non-religious organisation open to all that brings together those who work to protect religious heritage across Europe. FRH members include NGOs, charities, government, religious and university departments.

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