ITP Conference Grant 2025 report!!

Written by Claire Messenger, Manager, International Training Programme

We were delighted to award an ITP Conference Grant 2025 to Nguyễn Hải Ninh, Head of Museum and Documentary Heritage Management, Department of Cultural Heritage at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Vietnam, ITP 2023)

Ninh used his grant to attend and present at the International Conference on the Recovery of Cultural Heritage 2025, Kathmandu, Nepal from 16 to 18 June 2025 at the invitation of Roshan Mishra, Director/Curator, Taragaon Next (Nepal, ITP 2018 & Senior Fellow 2022).

At the conference, Ninh presented on Vietnam’s Approach to Artifact Repatriation: Law, Policy, and Cultural Agreements and you can now read Ninh’s final report on his time in Kathmandu.

We were honoured to be able to support Ninh this year and enable him to connect with Roshan for what we hope will lead to opportunities for future collaborations.

(TOP LEFT) Setting up for Object in Focus, ITP 2023; (BOTTOM LEFT) Ninh presenting to ITP Fellows, 2023; (RIGHT) Ninh and Roshan in front of conference backdrop.