Intangible Cultural Heritage & Museums Project

From 2017 to 2020 the Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museums Project has explored the variety of approaches, interactions and practices on safeguarding intangible cultural heritage together with museums

Book: Museums and intangible cultural heritage.

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IMP-book: Executive summary (EN)

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IMP-book: Executive summary (NL)

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IMP-book: Executive summary (IT)

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Past events

26
Feb

IMP Concluding Symposium - Museums and intangible heritage: towards a third space in the heritage sector

Le Bouche à Oreille, Brussels

08
May

Expert Meeting: Intangible Cultural Heritage, Museums and Cultural Policies

Museum Hof van Busleyden (Mechelen)

IMP NEWS

Register for the online conference on on integrating living heritage in museum's collection planning and management (24.09.2021)

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The IMP Book has been translated into French!

Following the original publication of the book in English in 2020, our French IMP-project partner Maisons des Cultures du Monde - Centre français du patrimoine culturel immatériel has just published a full translation, entitled 'Les musées et le patrimoine culturel immatériel: vers un tiers-lieu dans le secteur du patrimoine'. 

On this website you can already find a pdf vesion of the French translation of the IMP Executive Summary, but for more information on this new French translation of the book, get in touch with the MCM - CFPCI below!

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Special issue Volkskunde: 'Transforming, Not Saving. Intangible Cultural Heritage, Museums and/or the World' 

Workshop intangible heritage and the UNESCO Chair on critical heritage studies and safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel guest-edited a special issue of the academic journal Volkskunde: ‘Transforming, Not Saving. Intangible Cultural Heritage, Museums and/or the World’ (2020). This scholarly product contributes to the growing dynamics and recent developments around safeguarding intangible cultural heritage together with museums.

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