National Museums Liverpool (NML) has secured funding to deliver an intergenerational project in the Yemeni community of Liverpool to help young people support their parents and grandparents to connect with their cultural heritage.
Funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, House of Memories: Connecting with Yemeni Elders Heritage has been designed by House of Memories – National Museums Liverpool’s multi-award-winning dementia awareness programme.
Co-created with the Yemeni community and the Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre in Liverpool, the project will be supported by collections access and research from The Fashion Museum Bath and other
The project will expand understanding and interpretation of UK museum and community collections enabling young participants to capture, preserve and digitise familiar and untold community stories, traditions and culture linked to museum collections.
A bespoke multi-language app package will be produced – the first UK dual-language digital collection created for an app – and will be supported by a Toolkit for museums and young people.
The project was inspired by 16-year-old Abdul Wase, a young man from the Liverpool Yemeni community, a student at Liverpool Life Sciences University Technical College and an L8 A Better Place volunteer. Abdul’s prime motivation was his grandmother, who lives with dementia. Through the project he is hoping to raise awareness of the condition.
This project is part of National Museums Liverpool’s commitment to supporting people to live well with dementia and the Black Lives Matter movement; championing h
They are certain that individuals like Abdul and other members of the Yemeni community will help develop new ideas that will challenge them as an organisation and inspire their visitors to think differently about our shared experiences in the city we all call home.
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