Safeguarding Documentary Heritage

The UNESCO Memory of the World Committee for Asia-Pacific (MOWCAP) is pleased to announce the results of the 2020 round of the MOWCAP-Asia Culture Centre (ACC) Grants Program. In 2020 the grants will support eight organizations from the Asia-Pacific region...

At the age of 66, Japanese coal miner Sakubei Yamamoto started to paint the life of a northern Kyushu mine starting in the Meiji era. He produced more than 500 artworks, some of the most valuable ethnological source material from Japan, with the intention...

Audiovisual materials, such as film, video, audio and digital files, are important carriers for recording people’s collective memories and also precious resources for future generations to understand historical facts. Over the past few decades, we...

5-8 November, 2019, Republic of Korea: To support the preservation and access to the rich documentary heritage, including digital heritage, held in libraries, archives, museums and private collections from across the Asia-Pacific, Africa, and Latin America...

For many years, glass plate negatives in Myanmar were stored without special care. The negatives, some of which depict monuments that have since been damaged or destroyed, are a vital record of national and universal significance, yet have been in very...