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Thursday, March 28, 2024


Exhibition Public - Europe & Africa

Resilience within the Rubble: Reconstructing the Kasthamandap and its past after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake

Durham University Oriental Museum
Elvet Hill Rd,
Durham, United Kingdom
Sep 29, 2017 To Jan 28, 2018


Detail: 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. They returned to complete their work on the site in November and December 2016 with the support of the National Geographic Society and a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Global Challenges Research Fund.

This photographic exhibition will tell the story of the Kasthamandap, from its origins to its collapse to its renewal. Illustrated through archive photographic collections and the personal testimonies and photographs of first responders and Nepali heritage professionals, it will be interwoven with photographs of recent discoveries made during excavation by the Durham-led team.

Phone No.: +44 (0)191 334 5694
Contact Email: [email protected]
Site URL: https://www.dur.ac.uk/oriental.museum/whatson/details/?id=34266


Saptabidhanottar, puja and prayer ceremony held to reanimate the site once post-earthquake work had been completed in December 2016.

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