CollAsia 2010 Course on Conservation of Collections and Intangible Heritage
Links for further reading

Find out more! These websites have free information on some of the issues that were discussed during the workshop.

On intangible heritage:

UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage website

Cultural Heritage in Postwar Recovery, proceedings of the 2005 ICCROM Forum. Papers focus on: the dynamism of identity, records of memory, handicrafts and traditions, landscape and environment, and reconstruction.

Living National treasures

World Intellectual Property Organization website

ASEAN Traditional Textile Arts Community (ASEAN TTAC)

On connecting communities and heritage:

National Museum of the American Indian and community

New Zealand National Museum and community

Community-based approach to museums, UNESCO

On setting up awareness activities:

Introducing Young People to Heritage Site Management and Protection (also available in Arabic), ICCROM

On climate change:

Short introduction on carbon footprinting

Carbon calculator

Grasping of Climate, a guidebook for teaching climate change to school children

Climate Change Resources, American Museum of Natural History

Sustainable Museums blog

Climate change and poverty; climate change and conflict (SEAMEO-SPAFA)

On the stories that objects tell:

History of the World in 100 Objects, BBC Radio 4 and the British Museum

Significance 2.0: a guide to assessing the significance of collections, Commonwealth of Australia

Deliberately concealed garments project

Telling tales from Southeast Asia and Korea (SEAMEO-SPAFA)

On the conservation of collections:

“Are you an archive?”, ICCROM

ICOM-CC Ethnographic Collections working group

Ten Agents of Deterioration, Canadian Conservation Institute

Running a Museum, UNESCO

Improving your storage system with little resources: Re-Org website, ICCROM and UNESCO

On teaching and learning:

Our Students and Ourselves, ICCROM

Power of Internships, an Excellent Way to Excellence, ICCROM

updated on: 25 May, 2011