{"value":{"id":1662284,"askingMemberId":147,"askingMember":null,"house":"Lords","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2023-09-21T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2023-10-05T00:00:00","uin":"HL10404","questionText":"To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay on 20 September (HL9874), what plans they have to support the International Training Programme; how many African museum curators have benefited from it in each of the past three years; and from which countries they have come.","answeringBodyId":217,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Culture, Media and Sport","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4728,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2023-09-29T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Over the past three years, 16 museum curators from across Africa have participated in the British Museum’s International Training Programme; this includes participants from the following countries and institutions:</p><p> </p><p>2023</p><p>Archeological Enfidha Museum, Tunisia</p><p>National Museum, Nigeria</p><p>Unity Museum, Nigeria</p><p>National Museums of Kenya, Kenya</p><p>Imhotep Museum, Egypt</p><p>Alexandria National Museum, Egypt</p><p> </p><p>2022</p><p>Luxor Museum, Egypt</p><p>Akhenaton Museum, Egypt</p><p>Sudan National Museum, Sudan</p><p>Unity Museum, Nigeria</p><p>The National Institute of Heritage, Tunisia</p><p> </p><p>2021</p><p>Ghana Museums and Monuments Board, Ghana</p><p>Edo Global Art Foundation, Nigeria</p><p>Sudan National Museum, Sudan</p><p>Gebal Barkal Museum, Sudan</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>More details on the International Training Programme, including its funders, can be found in the annual reports that the British Museum publishes: https://www.bmitpglobalnetwork.org/publications/annual-reports/.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Museums and Galleries: Africa","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1662284","method":"GET"}]}