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The Endangered Material Knowledge Programme gives grants to support the documentation of material knowledge systems that are under threat and in danger of disappearing. It also provides free access by stewarding that knowledge in an open-access digital repository dedicated to its preservation.

Knowledge holders, practitioners, and scholars can apply for funds to support work that explores knowledge systems associated with the making, use, repair and re-purposing of material objects, spaces, architecture, performances and environments. EMKP strongly advocates for a working approach that centres on community epistemologies, close collaborative working and celebration of the diverse knowledge networks that affect the material world.

The Programme was established in 2018 with funding from Arcadia and is hosted by the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the British Museum.

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  • Building a temporary hut in the lowlands of Fora-Segen, Konso-Karata Zone, 2022. Photo credit: Luisa Sernicola.
  • Mounting a nhamanganane on the structure of a mbila. Photo credit: Sara Morais.
  • Perspective of rider during migration in East Taiga ( Tsagaannuur sum, Khövsgöl province, Mongolia, June 2023). Photo credit: Donatas Brandišauskas.
  • Children play with a pair of Jakuikatu, masks of underwater spirit-beings. Photo credit: Thomaz Pedro.
  • Aerial view of the construction of the ‘jéa tuntupé’ (house roof). Photo credit: Felipe Flores (2024).

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