Partners

Lok Virsa (the National Institute of Folk Art and Traditional Heritage) is Pakistan’s national ethnological museum and represents the cooperative partner in this project for the Directorate for Cultural Heritage, the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History and Concerts Norway. Lok Virsa has an extensive permanent exhibition of traditional Pakistani instruments, textiles and woodworks in Islamabad, and has also developed its own music archive. The museum presents the nation’s history and living traditions from both central and rural areas of the country. Lok Visa runs information campaigns for the population, and is a major resource centre both nationally and internationally. 

http://www.lokvirsa.org.pk/

The Directorate for Cultural Heritage acts as the coordinator for the Norwegian institutions that form part of the cooperation and is responsible for finding the experts/institutions required to carry out the programme.

http://www.riksantikvaren.no

The Norwegian Museum of Cultural History is running three projects in cooperation with Lok Virsa: a museum project through which the Norwegian museum shares its competence in the work of building up the infrastructure at Lok Virsa related to exhibitions and to handling and administrating objects and other materials, a research and documentation project on transnational migration and its consequences in Pakistan and Norway, and an exhibition at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History of wedding clothes and customs in Pakistan.

http://www.norskfolkemuseum.no/