CollAsiaCollAsia brings together and empowers professionals and organizations working with heritage collections in Southeast Asia, which is home to astonishing heritage collections. It aims to effect positive and lasting change through cooperation and awareness, increased knowledge and skills, and improved attitude and behavior toward sustainable collections care. The course covers management and conservation for all types of heritage collections. Its activities are consistently designed to overcome language barriers and promote scientific literacy, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, community engagement, and local expertise and solutions.

Created in 2003 at the request of ICCROM Member States, CollAsia was originally launched in partnership with the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts (SEAMEO-SPAFA), with financial support from the Getty Foundation. Since 2012, the Cultural Heritage Administration of the Republic of Korea (CHA) has generously provided ICCROM with the core funding for CollAsia’s ongoing activities in the Asia-Pacific Region, which also fosters South-South cooperation.

Courses held under the CollAsia umbrella can span a variety of themes, but all are related to collections-based conservation in the region. Past courses have covered topics such as conservation of specific materials; packing, transporting and storing heritage collections; underwater heritage; and cultural first aid to collections in danger.



 

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CollAsia – Conservation and Use of Southeast Asian Collections

CollAsia 2024, “Connecting Collections with Museum Spaces and Contexts”

The CollAsia 2024 course, "Connecting Collections with Museum Spaces and Contexts," is dedicated to integrating traditional knowledge with scientific principles of conservation to foster sustainable p...
CollAsia – Conservation and Use of Southeast Asian Collections

Collections, Conservation, and Sustainable Development (CollAsia 2022)

This groundbreaking international course aims to accelerate, increase and amplify activities that support sustainable development within the context of collections-based work. By participating in the ...
CollAsia – Conservation and Use of Southeast Asian Collections

International Course on the Reorganization of Collections Storage in Museums of Southeast Asia

Over 60% of museum collections worldwide are at risk because of overcrowding and poor storage conditions. In this situation, museums cannot ensure the protection of their collections, especially in em...
CollAsia – Conservation and Use of Southeast Asian Collections

Planning new exhibitions: conservation, communication, community

Heritage collections bear testimony to our diversity, ingenuity, and history. They are a powerful resource for education, fostering creativity, social coherence, and well-being. It is our job to use a...
CollAsia – Conservation and Use of Southeast Asian Collections

CollAsia - Conserving Photographic and Archival Collections

Photographic and Archival Collections cover historical, artistic and identity-building values transformation over time, recorded through a huge amount of documents.
CollAsia – Conservation and Use of Southeast Asian Collections

CollAsia: Packing and Storing Objects and Collections

The CollAsia programme aims at conserving heritage collections in Southeast Asia through conservation training and research activities, to shape sound and sustainable conservation actions for the Asia...
CollAsia – Conservation and Use of Southeast Asian Collections

CollAsia Course - Conserving Textiles and Costumes, Guatemala

Textiles and costumes are a vibrant part of the heritage collections in Southeast Asia. They attest to sophisticated traditional knowledge systems and complex worldwide trade relations, and have been ...
CollAsia – Conservation and Use of Southeast Asian Collections

Conservation and Use of Southeast Asian Collections

The CollAsia programme aims to conserve Heritage Collections in Southeast Asia, through conservation training and research activities to shape solid and sustainable conservation actions for the Asia-P...
CollAsia – Conservation and Use of Southeast Asian Collections

CollAsia: Handling, Packing and Moving Collections

The CollAsia programme aims at conserving Heritage Collections in Southeast Asia, through conservation training and research activities to shape sound and sustainable conservation actions for the Asia...