The State Museums of Dresden (SKD) fellowships for ITP Fellows, offered research stays of up to 3 months in Dresden (funded by SKD).
SKD fellowships were awarded to:
2014 – Sun Yue, Curator and Researcher of Objects and Decorative Arts at The Palace Museum, Beijing (China, ITP 2010) and Antonio Luis Ntimbanga, Head of the Exhibition and Education Department, Ethnology National Museum, Nampula (Mozambique, ITP 2009)
2015 – Ayman Al-Shweiki, MA Student, BTU Cottbus, Germany (Palestine, ITP 2012) & Constantinos Vasiliadis, Senior Conservator; Coordinator (Greece, ITP 2013)
2016 – Davit Poghosyan, Director of the History Museum of Armenia (Armenia, ITP 2015) and Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Mohamed Abd el-Salam, Curator, International Coordinator & Assistant Director, Museum of Islamic Art (Egypt, ITP 2013)
Knowledge Exchange Fellowship:
In 2018 and 2019 OmarJoseph Nasser-Khoury (Palestine, ITP Fellow 2013) returned to the British Museum on a Knowledge Exchange Fellowship. Omar’s project was to work with curators and collections to document and photograph the Palestinian textiles at the Museum’s Blythe House. He was also able to choose some textiles for display in the Arab World cabinet in the new Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic world and give a lecture in partnership with the Palestine Exploration Fund.
While at the British Museum, OmarJoseph, alongside Zeina Klink-Hoppe, Phillis Bishop Curator for the Modern Middle East at the British Museum and Felicity Cobbing, Chief Executive and Curator at the Palestine Exploration Society made an insightful and informative film on the collection and what he’s achieved in his time at the Museum. This project was generously funded by the British Council (Occupied Palestinian Territories), the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust and the Palestine Exploration Fund. And special thanks go to Sian Toogood, AV & Production Manager and Roux Malherbe, Producer, both of the British Museum, for putting this wonderful film together.