Grants awarded

You can search below for information about all grants we awarded. Our grants data is also available in csv format here.

We are committed to transparency, and believe that with better information, grant-makers can be more effective decision makers. In 2017 we started to work with 360Giving to publish information about Arcadia grants (last updated July 2024). Arcadia has waived all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to Arcadia’s grant data, to the extent possible under law, by dedicating it to the public domain with the Creative Commons CC0 waiver. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to use and share.

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Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes

To complete an online open-access database of heritage sites in Central Asia, combining archival records and new documentation of sites.

$4,194,000

2023

5 years

Documenting cultural heritage in the Cook Islands and Niue - pilot study

To trial and assess remote sensing techniques and existing in-country data, and refining the proposed methodology for documenting cultural heritage on the islands, whilst strengthening local partner and community relationships

$87,079.20

2022

1 year

Mapping Pre-Columbian archaeological heritage in South America

To produce an integrated public access database for the pre-Columbian archaeological heritage of South America, focussing on Brazil and Colombia.

$2,270,637

2022

3 years

Desert of the Mamluks documentation project

Towards the documentation of endangered built heritage and oral traditions in the ‘Desert of the Mamluks’, part of Cairo’s ‘City of the Dead’ necropolis.

$79,730

2021

1 year

Internationalization of Arches data management platform software

To develop a new software module for the Arches data management platform

$325,000

2021

1 year

Inventory of Maritime Archaeology in Pakistan

To develop a publicly accessible inventory of maritime archaeological resources in Pakistan to enable future scientific research and effective heritage management.

$495,354

2021

2 years

Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme

The Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme gives grants to document traditional practices of creating and maintaining wooden buildings. The programme makes permanent records of these structures and practices and makes them freely available online.

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$6,057,000

2020

5 years

Mongolia Heritage Sites Survey

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

$2,423,967

2020

5 years

Maritime Asia Heritage Survey

To document endangered heritage sites, inland and coastal, in the region from the Cham coast of Vietnam, through Indonesia, Brunei, and Sri Lanka to the Maldives.

$6,253,809

2020

5 years

Nepal Heritage Documentation Project

To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley, and publish them online in a searchable, free database.

$3,006,209

2020

6 years

Mapping archaeological heritage in South Asia

To undertake large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India and to make the results available online through an open-access database.

$2,304,000

2019

3 years

Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa

To document archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery.

$4,176,159

2019

5 years

Mapping Africa's endangered sites and monuments

To undertake large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results available online through an open-access database.

$4,249,600

2019

3 years

Documentation of maritime archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa

To document endangered maritime archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa and to publish the results through an online database.

$2,660,000

2018

5 years

Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes

To create an online open-access database of heritage sites in Central Asia, combining archival records and new documentation of sites.

$3,843,700

2018

5 years

Maldives Heritage Survey

To document the cultural heritage of the Maldives, and to publish the material online in an open-access database

$620,000

2018

2 years

Documentation of endangered historic buildings with frescoes in Shanxi Province, China

To survey and document endangered historic buildings with frescoes in Shanxi Province, ranging in date from early medieval to 19th century, and to publish the results online in an open-access bilingual database.

$1,047,438

2018

6 years

Nepal cultural heritage documentation project

To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley, and publish them online in a searchable, free database

$945,748

2018

2 years

3D-scanning of heritage sites in Syria and Iraq

To create 3D scans of monuments in Syria and to publish all materials online for free.

$196,490

2016

1 year

Documentation of endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa

To continue support for the documentation of endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on the ground survey.

$2,774,064

2016

5 years

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