Art What’s On
Resilience within the Rubble
Venue: Oriental Museum
Date: Sep 29th 2017 - Jan 28th 2018
Time: 12:00 - 17:00
Price: £1.50/75p
Detail
Reconstructing the Kasthamandap and its past after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake. The 2015 earthquake that struck Nepal, not only caused human devastation, but was also a cultural catastrophe. It damaged and destroyed much of Nepal’s unique cultural heritage, including monuments within the UNESCO Kathmandu Valley World Heritage Site. In 2015 a Durham University led team, in partnership with UNESCO and the Department of Archaeology, Government of Nepal, undertook a season of post-disaster archaeological assessment of earthquake damaged monuments within the UNESCO World Heritage Site, including the nationally important and symbolic Kasthamandap. This photographic exhibition will tell the story of the Kasthamandap, from its origins to its collapse to its renewal.