What do you do if you are running a small museum, with no public funding, you have major events crucial for your supporter network and a pandemic happens. Museums are shut and the flow of tourists stops overnight. How do you preserve the legacy of the building and its collections which have been carefully stewarded over generations? How do you keep in touch with your supporter network? How do you preserve the jobs of those managing the collections, maintaining the archives an

The webinar came about after an encounter with world renown story teller in the Southwest of England, Matt Pike. We wanted to share with the you the story of how he works his magic at the UNESCO world heritage site of Stonehenge in the UK, reimagining how to engage audiences and bring the past alive, educating, entertaining and celebrating his local heritage. Malak ElKhadem from Cairo, Egypt, welcomed Matt Pike and interviewed him, along with Belqees, a young Omani heritage g

Nicholas Mellor is the founder of 4DHeritage. 4DHeritage is pioneering the use of agile, immersive approaches to enable communities to document and monitor fragile ecosystems and endangered heritage sites. This recognises that this heritage, be it natural or built, is often central to their identity and livelihoods. In doing so it is an opportunity for the people of those communities to share their stories. Omar El Mekati is an Architect who gained his first experience of maj

A celebration of mud architecture, its past, its future, and its conservation Mud, mud, glorious mud. It has been used since prehistoric times for moulding objects to building shelters. It has been mixed with materials like straw, fermented and used to create some of the world’s most glorious buildings such as the iconic Great Mosque of Djenne. There is a huge variety of mud or earthen designs around the world. They range from the Native American earth lodges or shelters, si