Grants awarded

To document endangered built heritage and oral traditions in the ‘Desert of the Mamluks’ in Cairo’s ‘City of the Dead’ necropolis, and make the resulting materials freely available online.

To support a grant programme for documenting endangered material culture (how things are made and how they are used), and to make materials freely available online.

To document endangered heritage sites from Maritime Southern Asia: Thailand, Indonesia and the Maldives, and make the results freely available online.

To support a grant programme to document traditional practices of creating and maintaining wooden buildings and make the results freely available online.

To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley and make the resulting materials freely available online.

To create a publicly accessible database of endangered archaeological heritage in Mongolia using satellite imagery and on-the-ground survey.

To digitize endangered, dispersed and inaccessible collections of documents, photographs, videos and ephemeral materials representing the culture and history of Palestine from 1800 to the present and to make them freely available online.

Towards the costs of running the museum.

To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan’s multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism and esotericism.

Towards a permanent endowment for the Wende Museum with proceeds specifically for collections care and acquisitions.

To carry out large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results freely available online.

To document endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on-the-ground surveys and make the data freely available online.

To undertake large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India and to make the results freely available online.

To digitize manuscripts and books, including the Yahuda collection and Arab-Palestinian collection, and make them freely available online with metadata in Arabic and English.

To acquire, preserve, catalogue, and digitize Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks, and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

To document and interpret historical environmental data captured in an ice core from a glacier in the Alps and make the results freely available online.

To digitize approximately 50,000 pages of the most important archival material held by the Wende and make it freely available online.

Towards the costs of running the museum.

To support the Turquoise Mountain Trust’s work with artisans in Afghanistan, Myanmar and Jordan.

To support a grant programme to digitize archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect or deterioration, covering rare printed sources, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings in all languages and scripts from all periods up to the mid-20th century, and to make the records freely available online.