Director-General and President of Council ICCROM visit Benin

Director-General and President of Council visit Benin

May 13th, 2014

From 22-25 April, the Director-General of ICCROM went on mission to the École du Patrimoine Africain  (EPA–School of African Heritage) in Benin. He was joined by the President of the ICCROM Council and Director of the Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF), Ms Marie Lavandier, who was in the country for a workshop on the ‘’Preservation of African Image Heritage: West African Image Lab”. This workshop was co-organized by EPA, the Art Conservation Department of the University of Delaware (United States), the Curatorial Department of Photographs of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (United States), the Centre de Recherche sur la conservation des collections (France), and the Resolution Photo association in partnership with the Centre de Recherche et de Documentation (Senegal).
The Director-General’s mission had three objectives:
1) To assist as Vice-President at the 7th Council of EPA.
2) To meet Beninese authorities in order to reinforce the links between Benin, EPA and ICCROM.

3) To see EPA’s recent achievements and contribution to various projects in Benin (for example, the Royal Palaces of Abomey, Garden of Plants and Nature (JPN), the Slave Route in Ouidah, and town planning and rehabilitation of public places in Porto Novo).