This new project, led by Rodney Harrison, in collaboration with the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), draws on results and methodologies developed as part of the AHRC-funded Reimagining Museums for Climate Action project, and the ongoing UKRI-underwritten Horizon Europe-funded project  Petrocultures’ Intersection with The Cultural Heritage Sector in the Context of Green Transitions (PITCH) . Both projects have largely been developed in anglophone and western European contexts.

The project aims to explore their wider application in capacity building for climate action within the heritage and museums sector in a number of Low and Middle Income Countries. It works in partnership with ICCROM, an intergovernmental organisation focussed on heritage conservation, uses of heritage and training, working with member states around the world.

It draws on ICCROM’s international networks and their Our Collections Matter programme, which focusses on building capacity for collections-based institutions to contribute towards the Sustainable Development Goals, and which has been empowering collections professionals since the programme was launched in 2020. The project will connect the research, capacity building and policy-oriented work of the Reimagining Museums for Climate Action and PITCH projects with international capacity-building activities and experience of ICCROM on Our Collections Matter.

Further information is available at
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/news/2024/sep/empowering-action-climate-through-collections-based-institutions-lmicsaeology/news/2024/sep/empowering-action-climate-through- collections-based-institutions-lmics