Syria – Kurdish man turns his house into museum to protect their heritage

Location: Qamshili, Syria

Language: Kurdish

Duration: 00:05:02

Voice: Natural

Source: A24 News Agency

Restriction: A24 Clients

 Dateline: 17/3/2022

Storyline

Vigan Himo, a Kurdish young man turns his house into a small museum for ancient heritage holdings and tools that the peoples of the region used in their daily lives in the village of Himo, western of Qamishli. The museum contains more than 800 pieces, some dating back 4,000 years.. Himo aims to revive the Kurdish culture and heritage and to introduce the new generation to the heritage and tools used by their ancestors.

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• Soundbite (Vigan Hemo – museum owner):

“Before the Rojava revolution in 2011, Kurdish culture was forbidden to publish or circulate. Kurdish people then had no state or institutions to protect their cultural heritage from being lost. We collected from 800-1000 pieces, including what was purchased, and what was collected from the areas of Qamishli and its countryside, and the areas of Amuda, and Derik Al-Darbasiyah, and the rest of Rojava. I also wrote a book on the history of these tools.”

• Soundbite (Vigan Hemo – museum owner):

“We developed this project with the goal of introducing the new generation to the history and literature of the Kurdish people and protecting it from being lost.”

• Soundbite (Vigan Hemo – museum owner):

“One of the potteries here date back 4000 years old made of a mixture of clay and water and dried straw.”

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