O National Center for Nautical and Underwater Archeology (CNANS) of the Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage (DGPC), in partnership with the Maritime Museum of Norway (NMM), will hold a presentation session of the Nautical and Underwater Archeology Project "Water World - Building capacity and skills for the conservation and management of underwater heritage”, financed by the Culture Portugal Programme, under the EEA Grants 2014-2021 Financial Mechanism.
The session will take place this Monday, November 22, at 10:00 am, at the National Center for Nautical and Underwater Archeology (CNANS), at Rua da Manutenção 5, 1900-318 Lisbon.
The operator of the Culture Program, the EEA Grants National Management Unit, the DGPC, the Norwegian Embassy and the Norwegian Maritime Museum.
The “Water World” project has a financing of 995 euros and will last for about two years, with the objective of safeguarding, studying, preserving, monitoring and disseminating the Archeology and Conservation of Underwater Cultural Heritage in Portugal.
Within its scope, there are plans for training programs, acquisition of equipment, conservation and restoration of archaeological assets and their return to local communities, systematization of information, location and registration of archaeological sites and digital and on-site public dissemination.
CNANS is the national entity responsible for the management and conservation of heritage from submerged or humid archaeological contexts. It is in its new facilities, in Xabregas, that the project team will contribute to the systematization of more than 7 archaeological sites and the management of more than 20 artefacts from this environment, ranging from the Iron Age, for more than 2500 years, until World War I.
Within the same project, the CNANS and the NMM in collaboration with the Stavanger Maritime Museum (MUST) and the Humanities Center (CHAM), between 22 and 26 November, the “3D Recording Workshop in Nautical and Underwater Archeology".
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