May 2022: Start of collaboration with National Museum of Kenya
MPrint gets underway in Lamu, Kenya: One week workshop with staff of MprinT partner National Museum of Kenya, Lamu Branch, on the mapping and digitizing of Islamic manuscripts in the Lamu Archipelago.
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. An excellent team with diverse expertise, from Islamic scholarship to conservation and cataloguing, to historians and social anthropologists. And not to forget the IT champions! During the workshop a unique collection came in all the way from Ndau Island, just in time for the experts to identify, wrap and prepare for digitizing. All in the beautiful surroundings of Lamu Fort.
MPRINT GOES TO PATE ISLAND: Over the course of just one week, the NMK/MprinT team conducted a first mapping of Islamic manuscripts in Pate Island, Lamu. The field trip included onsite cataloguing by the best experts, order and system ensured by the Lamu Fort Library staff, and thoroughly documented by the right expertise. The meetings with custodians is an integral and important part of the MprinT project to enable local conservation of textual heritage, and to document the usage of the knowledge enshrined in these texts.
