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4. Promoting the Role of Egyptian Museums in Nurturing and Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage

Chapter of: Tangible and Intangible Heritage in the Age of Globalisation(pp. 69–88)

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Title4. Promoting the Role of Egyptian Museums in Nurturing and Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage
ContributorHeba Khairy(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0388.04
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0388/chapters/10.11647/obp.0388.04
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
CopyrightHeba Khairy
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-04-10
Long abstractHeba Khairy analyses the museums of Egypt, a country renowned for its tangible and intangible heritage. Certainly, artefacts have been preserved in Egyptian museums since the twentieth century, but, to date, museum practice has been overwhelmingly concerned with tangible heritage, to the neglect of its intangible counterpart. As such, this research seeks to uncover viable solutions for the incorporation and development of intangible heritage in Egyptian museums. This is achieved by providing a conceptual prototype that will allow practitioners to safeguard and develop intangible cultural heritage, particularly in terms of living memory and communal identities.
Page rangepp. 69–88
Print length19 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Heba Khairy

(author)
https://orcid.org/0009-0000-8090-7945

Heba Khairy is project coordinator at the Grand Egyptian Museum and a PhD candidate specialising in heritage and museum studies. She has participated in many international and national projects and studies focusing on the safeguarding of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, preservation, local community engagement and development. In 2016 she participated in the ‘Memphis site management and Community development project’ supported by the USAID and York University. In 2018 she participated in a study project aiming to safeguard the Syrian dance and musical performance ‘Al A’rada’, hosted in Egypt. In 2019 she participated in a study project aiming to safeguard the Egyptian traditional stitch handcraft known as ‘Al Khayameia’.

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