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Activities in 2006

ACM contributed to a significant development in the capacity building of museum facilities and staff expertise in 2006, with the successful completion of the Danzanravjaa Preservation Project.

Danzanravjaa Museum Preservation project
templeThe ACM successfully implemented the Danzanravjaa Museum Preservation Project during July 2005 - August 2006 with generous support from the American Embassy in Mongolia, successfully meeting the aims to provide museum storage facilities and conduct trainings on museum collection maintenance. The project was aimed to build the capacity of museum staff and to provide appropriate archival facilities in order to preserve unique heritage riches of Danzanravjaa, one of the main representatives of Mongolian art, philosophy and Buddhism and was implemented in three phases including preparation, training and placement...more.

Tumen Ekh Tour in North America
In collaboration with the Seattle International Children’s Festival and ACM-US, the ACM organized a tour of Mongolia’s best, most successful and experienced folk song and dance ensemble “Tumen Ekh” to North America in May 2006... more

ACM joins SEAL of UNESCOCraft
ACM took part in the Sub-regional Workshop on UNESCO Introduction of Seal of Excellence for Handicraft Products in East Asia , held in UB during 24-26 October, 2005.
The workshop objectives were to discuss on developing a framework for the SEAL Asia and to introduce the SEAL into East Asia . Upon the request of UNESCO, the ACM joins the SEAL Programme in East Asia. The program is aimed to preserve the traditions of handicraft, to support the craftsmen in line with the current and upcoming situation of society, culture, environment and ecology, to select and promote the best works of handicraft... more

Other activites:

“My culture” project in Khovd province
2ACM-US, a sister organization to ACM, does tax-deductible fundraising in the US to support Mongolian arts and culture. Recently ACM-US Board announced to award ACM with grants totaling US $ 30 000. These grant-winning projects are 2 cultural heritage projects My culture and Museums in the region and arts education project Artsplus .

My culture
The My culture project aims to preserve the unique musical traditions of Khovd province by running folk music training for kids in collaboration with the Khovd Music and Drama Theatre. The first stage of the project, the curriculum development, has started in November, 2005 and the following stages will be the training of the trainers, repairing and equipping the training rooms and the training for children.

Museum development project in rural areas
Regional museum development project is aimed to support museums as heritage preservation site and to develop museums into heritage education venue to deliver knowledge on Mongolian history and culture through arts.

Two day training in Khovd province

The ACM devised an after school folk music project in Khovd province aiming to preserve and promote intangible folk music heritage of the area to younger generations. In the preparatory part of the project, specially developed curriculums were developed, which will also encourage children's creative thinking and problem solving skills. On March 3-4, ACM facilitated a two day training on secondary school music education standards. During the training, which involved 25 music teachers from all soums of Khovd province, the selection of the trainers for the after school folk music training. The selected trainers are two teachers of secondary schools in Khovd and two artists of Khovd Music and Drama Theater and they took part in the curriculum development workshop. The actual training for kids will start in September, 2006 when the academic year starts.



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