(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - As part of ISESCO Publications, the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) has released a new book in Arabic on “Museums in the Islamic World: Emergence and Evolution) by Dr Shawqi Shaath, former Director of Antiquities and Museums in the northern region of Syria.
In his foreword to the 304-page book, ISESCO Director General, Dr Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri, highlighted ISESCO’s interest in developing comprehensive cultural action, particularly through the modernization of museums and the preservation of their archaeological and artistic collections in the Member States, given their role as a " repository of history", "houses of arts and letters" and depots of antiquities, which reflect Man’s intellectual, cultural, social and economic production through the ages.
In the same vein, the Director General noted that ISESCO has always paid attention to maintaining museums in its Member States, and has taken this into account in its various action plans, as part of its efforts to safeguard intangible heritage, particularly museum collections and archaeological sites, as an essential component of civilization.
The organization, he adds, is keen on incorporating elements of heritage in a number of such museums, training human resources to manage them using modern ICTs, recovering stolen cultural property, and caring for the physical aspects of manuscripts through maintenance and restoration and the training of specialized human resources in this area on the use of modern technologies.
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In his foreword to the 304-page book, ISESCO Director General, Dr Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri, highlighted ISESCO’s interest in developing comprehensive cultural action, particularly through the modernization of museums and the preservation of their archaeological and artistic collections in the Member States, given their role as a " repository of history", "houses of arts and letters" and depots of antiquities, which reflect Man’s intellectual, cultural, social and economic production through the ages.
In the same vein, the Director General noted that ISESCO has always paid attention to maintaining museums in its Member States, and has taken this into account in its various action plans, as part of its efforts to safeguard intangible heritage, particularly museum collections and archaeological sites, as an essential component of civilization.
The organization, he adds, is keen on incorporating elements of heritage in a number of such museums, training human resources to manage them using modern ICTs, recovering stolen cultural property, and caring for the physical aspects of manuscripts through maintenance and restoration and the training of specialized human resources in this area on the use of modern technologies.
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