Arts & Design

How Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Partners the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Nigeria on Digital Archiving 

 

A landmark event in arts and culture is set to happen in Lagos on Wednesday March 20, 2024. It’s the MOU signing ceremony for the launch of the Cultural Property Agreement Implementation Grant program titled “Preserving Nigeria’s Heritage.”

 

The $95,000 grant program with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Commission for Museums and Monuments seeks to create a digital inventory of collections at the National Museum Lagos.

 

At the event, U.S. The Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs will deliver remarks underscoring the U.S. government’s support for the preservation of Nigeria’s rich cultural heritage using different partnership mechanisms.

  

This multi-phase project includes both online digital documentation and museum education workshops as well as in-person seminars in Nigeria for the National Commission for Museums and Monuments staff led by experts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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