The forum on heritage conservation and cultural tourism was organised jointly by AusHeritage and Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum Trust and took place at the City Palace, Jaipur, A five member heritage delegation from Australia will be in Jaipur from 8 to 10 April to collaborate with the Maharaj Sawai Man Singh II Museum […]
A five member heritage delegation from Australia was in Jaipur from 8 to 10 April to collaborate with the Maharaj Sawai Man Singh II Museum Trust on heritage conservation and cultural tourism.
The Australian and Indian teams took part in a joint forum on museum collections and conservation, heritage architecture and conservation, and cultural tourism. AusHeritage chairman and Australian cultural heritage expert, Mr Vinod Daniel, set the tone for the forum by speaking on ‘The Museum of the 21st Century’ and participants undertook site visits at the Jaipur City Palace and Jaigarh Fort.
AusHeritage has received a grant from the Australia Indonesia Institute to provide technical masonry repair, conservation and rising damp expertise to the Conservation Institute of the Jakarta City Government at a two day workshop in late May 2013.
Australian heritage experts are visiting Mumbai, Chennai and Kochi to boost heritage cooperation between Australia and India and discuss maritime heritage preservation.
Delegates from AusHeritage and the Australian National Maritime Museum are in India from 25 February to 5 March to take part in a joint forum with Chathrapathi Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (Mumbai) and to meet senior heritage officials. The visit will include discussions in Chennai on the planned new Maritime Museum for Tamil Nadu.
Vinod Daniel (Chairman, AusHeritage) presenting the draft strategic management plan for the Grand Egyptian Museum-Centre for Conservation to HE Mohammed Ibrahim, Egypts Minister for Culture.
Call Vinod Daniel a nomad and you wouldn’t be too wrong. Nominally based in Australia, a well-beaten flight path between India and Australia plus regular forays to south-east Asia and Egypt, make him unable to call anywhere home in the way more sedentary folk do.
Vinod Daniel (AusHeritage Chair) in conversation with John Zubrzycki author of “The Last Nizam: An Indian Prince in the Australian Outback”; at the launch of John’s new book “The Mysterious Mr Jacob: Diamond Merchant, Magician and Spy” at the Oxford Book Store, Hyderabad, India, February 3, 2013. This event was part of Oz Fest and supported by the Australia India Council.
AusHeritage Chairman Mr Vinod Daniel with Australian Minister for the Arts Mr Simon Crean and Australian High Commissioner to India Mr Peter Varghese at the Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum, briefing on one of AusHeritage’s projects in India.
Strengthening Australian engagement with the heritage sector in Taiwan
With the generous support of the Australia China Council, The Chinese University of Technology, Taipei and the National Quemoy University, Kinmen County, Taiwan, AusHeritage held a series of meetings in Taiwan in the second half of September 2012.
Today AusHeritage completed the signing process regarding our MOU with the China University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. The event was held at the Observatory Hotel in Kent Street Sydney where AusHeritage Chair Vinod Daniel and Australia China Council Project Leader, Bruce Pettman added their signatures to the MOU.