House of Memories to launch first UK community-curated dual-language digital collection for Liverpool-Yemeni community
Abdul Wase in traditional Yemeni clothing
Funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund,
House of Memories – National Museums Liverpool’s multi-award-winning dementia awareness programme.
Co-created with the Yemeni community and the Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre in Liverpool, the project will be supported by collections access and research from The Fashion Museum Bath and other online UK museum Yemeni collections.
The project will expand understanding and interpretation of UK museum and community collections enabling young participants to capture, preserve and digitise familiar and untold community stories, traditions and culture linked to museum collections. A bespoke multi-language app package will be produced – the first UK dual-language digital collection created for an app – and will be supported by a Toolkit for