The Palestinian Museum launches phase two of its Digital Archive project to include more than 360,000 items 21/April/2021 04:19 PM
The Palestinian Museum launches phase two of its Digital Archive project to include more than 360,000 items
Photo from the Palestine Museum.
BIRZEIT, Wednesday, April 21, 2021 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Museum announced the launch of phase two of its Digital Archive project (PMDA), which will continue for three years as of March 2021 and when complete, the archive will include more than 360,000 freely-available items, according to a press release.
During phase two, the project will widen its reach, gathering Palestinian archives from families and institutions, and from diaspora Palestinians in Jordan and Lebanon. The aim is to digitize and publish 180,000 archival items that shed light on different aspects of Palestinian social history from the 1800s to the present day.