With the aim of raising awareness regarding the protection of the cultural assets and within the framework of 18 April World Heritage Day, Eastern Mediterranean University Center for Cyprus Studies (EMU-CCS), in collaboration with EMU Architecture Faculty, organised a workshop with a group of students from Canbulat Özgürlük high school. This year’s workshop which aims to highlight and integrate museum training programs as part of secondary school education will take place at St. Barnabas Museum through a series of events taking place on 31 March, 1 April, 14 April and 16 April.
The program aims to present students with real objects outside their school, methods for inquisitive and analytic thinking as well as providing answers for different situations. In this respect, during the workshops which took place on 31 March and 1 April, students were asked to reflect on and provide answers for the actual meaning of culture, the importance of cultural assets, museum types and how to visit museums. Following the discussion session, students visited a museum and talked about archaeology, lifestyles of earlier civilizations and the bond between different cultures. Following the visit, each students was asked to draw a picture of an archeaological item from the museum they visited. Upon the completion of the task, students talked about their drawings, analysed samples from modern art and were asked to create their own objects. Following the production of their own items, students formed their own museum of art.
On the workshop sessions taking place on 14 and 16 April 2014, students will pay a visit to Icon Museum and be presented with information on how to create icons with the collage technique. Students’ works produced within the framework of the workshop will be exhibited at EMU Architecture Faculty Colored Building at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, 18 April 2014. Students are also going to be presented certificates during the same event.
What is World Heritage Day?
18 April is celebrated as the “World Heritage Day” throughout the world with the aim of encouraging local communities and individuals throughout the world to consider the importance of cultural heritage to their lives, identities and communities, and to promote awareness of its diversity and vulnerability and the efforts required to protect and conserve it. ICOMOS, the International Council for Monuments and Sites makes a number of suggestions on how to celebrate the World Heritage Day.
