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The Palestinian Museum celebrates International Museum Day with a workshop on storing and working with image archives
On May 18, Palestine, alongside about 35,000 other museums in 143 different countries worldwide, took part in the annual celebration of International Museum Day, whose theme this year was ‘Museum Collections Make Connections’. Palestine’s participation took the form of a workshop organised by the Palestinian Museum and the Goethe Institute,… read more
Al-Qattan: UNRWA’s digital archive will help tell refugees’ story
UNRWA’s collection has more than 430,000 negatives, 10,000 prints, 85,000 slides, 75 films and 730 videotapes and is inscribed on the UNESCO ‘Memory of the World’ register. The rich digitized archive contains rare snapshots of the displacement, dispossession and expulsion of the Palestinian people, thousands of whom are refugees in their own… read more
Short Film on Digital Archiving and Photographer George Nehmeh
This short film documents the digitizing of the UNRWA archive in Gaza. It follows one of UNRWA’s most important early photographers, George Nehmeh, as he revisits people and sites that he has photographed over the past 40 years. The film also examines in detail the process of digitalization, exploring the scanning processes for negatives, slides… read more