An online repository for the cultural heritage of Tuvalu

Rising Nations Initiative and German Archaeological Institute will create an online repository and presentation platform of culture & heritage for the benefit of the Tuvaluan people and the pan-Pacific community, as well as researchers and the global public.

The project is funded by the Federal Foreign Office. 

 The repository will reunite, in one virtual place, digital representations of Tuvalu’s existing tangible and intangible cultural heritage — heritage which is threatened by anthropogenic climate change and sea-level rise.

The rich collection of digital assets will include contemporary recordings of performances and other intangible cultural heritage practices, a living archive of oral histories and interviews, available as audio files and as transcriptions, and three-dimensional interactive models and maps of the nine islands. Virtual visitors will be able to see and experience the threatened unique cultural landscapes, marine life, and coastal and island environments of Tuvalu before may be totally inundated by the rising seas.

https://www.dainst.org/newsroom/an-online-repository-for-the-cultural-heritage-of-tuvalu/182

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Rising Nations Initiative 

German Archaeological Institute

Federal Foreign Office