Deadline: 30 November 2017
U.S. Embassy in Turkmenistan is seeking applications for its U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) to supports the preservation of cultural sites, cultural objects, and forms of traditional cultural expression in developing countries around the world.
Categories
AFCP supports projects to preserve cultural heritage in the following three categories:
- CULTURAL SITES includes (but is not limited to) historical buildings and sites, monuments, and archaeological sites:
- Preservation of an archaeological or historical site, sacred place or monument;
- An archaeological survey as a component of a preservation plan;
- Preservation management planning for a site or sites in a region, and
- Documentation of a site or sites in a region for preservation purposes
- CULTURAL OBJECTS AND COLLECTIONS from a museum, site, or similar institution, includes archaeological and ethnographic objects, paintings, sculpture, manuscripts, photographic and film collections, and general museum conservation activities:
- Conservation of an object or collection of objects;
- Inventory of a collection of objects for conservation purposes;
- Creating suitable space and conditions for a collection of objects, and
- Specialized training in the care and preservation of collections
- FORMS OF TRADITIONAL CULTURAL EXPRESSION includes traditional music, rituals, knowledge, languages, dance, drama, and crafts:
- Recording traditional music or dance forms;
- Compiling a dictionary of an endangered language;
- Recording oral history or traditional poetry, and
- Support for training in the preservation of traditional arts or crafts that are threatened by extinction
Funding Information
The proposed budget should not be less $10,000, and should not exceed $300,000.
Note: This program is meant to support the preservation of cultural heritage ONLY. Funds cannot be used to support the purchase of privately owned, residential or commercial property or collections.
Eligible Country: Turkmenistan
For more information, please visit U.S. Embassy in Turkmenistan.