What's on 

  May 2023
   2023 International Museum Day
  Museums, Sustainability and Well-being

Dear audience,
You can now mark the Museum’s May 2023 events on your digital calendar (pc or mobile) through this Link.
At The Palestinian Museum, we concur with the vision of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) that ‘museums are key contributors to the well-being and to the sustainable development of our communities…as trusted institutions and important threads in our shared social fabric, they are uniquely placed to create a cascading effect to foster positive change. There are many ways in which museums can contribute to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in many ways: from supporting climate action and fostering inclusivity, to tackling social isolation and improving mental health.’

At the Palestinian Museum, we implement the SDGs in the development of our programmes, exhibitions and services, ensuring Quality Education for our children (SDG 4), contributing to energy conservation in one of the few green buildings in the region (SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities, SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production, SDG 13: Climate action), and ensuring that Palestine's biodiversity is conserved within our gardens (SDG 15:  Life on Land).

Our activities this month continue to uphold the achievement of these goals as we mark this year’s International Museum Day.
For the Whole Family
Play, Create, Explore, and Share
Knowledge of Palestine

Sunday, May 14th | 15:00-18:00
Location: The Palestinian Museum
Language: Arabic


We’ll spend the day together in the museum building and its gardens learning about Palestine and its people, land, and sea. We will cross 5 stations of activities:
- An Archive of Joy
- Nets and Sea, during which we’ll gaze upon our sea on the horizon
- Plants on the Balcony, during which we’ll plant seeds and take some home to plant as a memento from the museum gardens
- With the Hakawati (storyteller) as they tell us fun and joyful tales
- From the Land we Plant and Eat, a snack time that’ll connects farming with the food we eat.
Pre-register by emailing us at education@palmuseum.org 
Film Stream
The Nakba in our Personal Archives

Monday, May 15th | 12:00
Location: Palestinian Museum Social Media Platforms
Language: Arabic and English

The Palestinian Museum will stream a short film produced to mark the Nakba. The film is a montage of photographs of life before the 1948 Nakba, selected from the Palestinian Museum Digital Archive. The video reimagines the lives of the photographed individuals to manifest the richness and diversity of the ordinary, personal daily life that was robbed from the Palestinian people.
Camp Podcast

Monday, May 15th | 16:00-16:20
Research, preparation, and presentation: the Palestinian Museum  Research and Program Officer Marah Khalifeh In partnership with Sowt Podcasts
Location: Palestinian Museum Social Media Platforms
Language: Arabic

This episode addresses Palestinian refugee camps, focusing on the Dheisheh camp in the Bethlehem area and the Wihdat camp in the Greater Amman area in Jordan. It uses architecture as a lens through which we explore the concepts and practices of the right of return, social and political relations, and the dream of liberation.

Special guests are Anas Alkhatib from Dheisheh Camp and Nama’a Qudah from Wihdat Camp.
Lecture:  Mental Health in a Colonial Reality

Dr Samah Jabr, in dialogue with the Palestinian Museum  Research and Program Officer Marah Khalifeh
Tuesday, May 16th | 14:30-15:30
Location: The Palestinian Museum
Language: Arabic

As part of our activities for International Museum Day, the theme of which this year is sustainability and well-being, the renowned Dr Samah Jabr will lead a discussion on mental health in the political context of Palestine. Questions posed will include: Is mental health a luxury? How can we think about mental health when our lives aren’t safe?
Workshop: Mental Health in a Colonial Reality
Jannati Clinic for Mental Welfare with Senior Narrative Therapist and Clinical Social Worker Nihaya Aburayyan

Sunday, May 21st | 14:00- 16:00
Monday, May 22nd | 14:00-16:00
Location: The Palestinian Museum
Language: Arabic
Ages: 17 and up

As part of our activities for International Museum Day, the theme of which this year is sustainability and well-being, we present in cooperation with Jannati Clinic a workshop of theoretical training based on a participatory and interactive approach that cover the effects of the political situation in Palestine and trauma of all kinds on mental health. Session participants will acquire the knowledge and skills to deal with the pressures of life and their long-term implications, address individual and collective trauma recovery methods, and attain strategies for hope and resilience.
A sign-language tour of the exhibition A People by the Sea

With Interpreter Thaer Daraghmeh
Tuesday, May 16th | 10:00 - 12:00
Location: The Palestinian Museum
Language: Arabic

As part of our activities for International Museum Day, the theme of which this year is sustainability and well-being, we present a sign-language tour of our exhibition A People by the Sea: Narratives from the Palestinian Coast which covers different aspects, including its main themes, the research that went into it, its different commissioned artworks, and the creative outputs from it.
Laughter Yoga
Palestine Red Crescent Society- Mental Health and Phycological support Department

Mr. Mousa Abualjraysh & Dr. Mutaz Maraqa
Tuesday, May 23rd | 11:00-13:00
Location: the Palestinian Museum
Language: Arabic

As part of our activities for International Museum Day, the theme of which this year is sustainability and well-being, we invite you to join us for a session of laughter yoga, a type of yoga based on breathing in the way you would while laughing and eye contact as an important way to relieve stress and anxiety 
 
Space is limited so please pre-register by emailing activities@palmuseum.org 
Yoga in the Palestinian Museum Gardens
Vinyasa Yoga

With trainer Sarab Atway
Wednesday, May 24th | 17:00 -18:00
Location: The Palestinian Museum terrace
Language: Arabic

As part of our activities for International Museum Day, the theme of which this year is sustainability and well-being, we invite you to join us for a session of Vinyasa yoga, a practice based on tying different poses to deep breaths and the smooth flow of movements.

Participation in this activity requires:
- A yoga mat, a light blanket, or a pillow
- Pre-registration by emailing activities@palmuseum.org 
Musical Performance ‘Reem Kelani Sings to the People and their Sea’

With artist Reem Kelani
Tuesday, May 30th | 18:00 - 19:40
Location: Palestinian Museum Social Media Platforms
Language: Arabic

Reem Kelani, ‘the unofficial ambassador for the culture and music of Palestine’ will put on an extraordinary heritage-inspired musical performance inspired by and dedicated to the Palestinian coast. This is in line with the museum’s current exhibition A People by the Sea: Narratives from the Palestinian Coast.
Highlight of the Month

For the commemoration of the Nakba we invite you to explore our Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question - PalQuest, and check out this digital and interactive map; a version of Walid Khalidi’s  book “All That Remains”.

Places features the digitized version of the entire contents of All That Remains, the landmark study of the villages destroyed by Israel during the Nakba. This authoritative text, published by the Institute for Palestine Studies in 1992, was developed over nearly six years by about thirty field researchers and specialists and edited by historian Walid Khalidi.

Discover the hundreds of villages destroyed during the Nakba in this interactive map on #PalQuest from here .