Monday, 22 December

• 11:00–12:00 This is Not an Exhibition and Khalil Raad Exhibition
• 12:00–13:00 Collections Room and Conservation Labs
• 13:00–14:00 This is Not an Exhibition and Khalil Raad Exhibition
• 14:00–15:00 Collections Room and Conservation Labs

Location: the Palestinian Museum
Languages: Arabic and English

Guided Exhibition Tour: “This is Not an Exhibition”

In past wars and under siege, Gazan artists painted on shrouds; in a time of genocide, canvas itself can become a shroud, and surviving frames can be dismantled for firewood; to warm bodies worn down by the cold or to prepare whatever food is available against hunger. Today, more than 200 artworks by over 100 Gazan artists bear witness to this legacy, and to the insistence of life to continue in the face of erasure.

Guided Tour at the Collections Room

This tour brings you into the Collections Room, where the Museum’s ethnographic collection unfolds; embroidered Palestinian thobes, jewellery, accessories, posters, and artworks that preserve scenes from Palestinian life across decades. The tour pauses at the story of eighty embroidered thobes that travelled to the United States, cared for by Palestinian and Arab–American women before finally returning home to be preserved at the Palestinian Museum.

Guided Tour at the Conservation Labs

This behind-the-scenes tour introduces the specialised techniques used by the Museum to conserve textiles and embroidered thobes, and to treat fragile paper and archival documents at risk of deterioration. You will see how delicate materials are stabilised and restored with careful expertise that protects their historical and cultural significance.

Guided Exhibition Tour: “Not Just Memory: Khalil Raad and the Contemporary Gaze” Exhibition

This tour takes us on a visual journey from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s, through the lens of pioneering photographer Khalil Raad. We see how he documented the landscapes, daily life, and unfolding history of Palestine before 1948, and how the photograph becomes a testimony to a presence threatened with erasure, remaining a site of resistance and reimagining in the face of ongoing colonial violence.

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