Heritage EduHub
Heritage knowledge, made to be shared.
Founded in 2024, Heritage EduHub is CIE’s open-access initiative for heritage studies, museum practice, community narratives and material culture.
It translates fieldwork, seminars, research and collaboration into accessible articles, readers, modules, toolkits and training—welcoming beginners without losing intellectual rigour.
Cape Town / South Africa / Youth Network / Photo CIE / Robert ParthesiusRole in CIE
Knowledge travels when it can be used.
EduHub helps every cluster transform specialised work into clear, adaptable and context-sensitive learning for students, communities, educators and practitioners.
It connects research and practice without reducing either, building pathways from active CIE work to readers, modules, toolkits, workshops and public knowledge.
EduHub online heritage library
A starter reading room
Foundational questions become clear entry points for classrooms, workshops, museum visits and independent study.
How to Look at Heritage Artefacts?
How objects, labels, interpretation and display shape the way people encounter material culture.
02MuseumsMuseum Walkthrough Tips
A practical guide to reading museums attentively and connecting exhibition choices to heritage questions.
03NarrativesOn Official and Unofficial Narratives
An introduction to authorised heritage discourse and the tension between institutional and community storytelling.
04Contested heritageThe Parthenon Marbles
A case study in restitution, contested ownership, museum ethics and the politics of display.
05Heritage in crisisThe Mask of Warka
A reading centred on loss, theft, return and the cultural stakes of safeguarding iconic objects.
06Heritage ecologyImagining Heritage Loss
How art-archaeology can make disappearing landscapes and environmental change legible as heritage.
Learning from the archive
Legacy fieldschools and museum education
Earlier CIE programmes show how practical work becomes a learning pathway, a shared method and a public story.
Afghanistan Culture and Development
Exhibitions, children’s education and locally led museum practice in Kabul and Kholm.
Read the programme story ↗Robben Island
A cumulative curriculum in underwater recording, interpretation, conservation and site management.
Read the fieldschool story ↗Zanzibar
Training, documentation and community-centred maritime heritage work connecting Zanzibar with Mafia Island, Kilwa and a wider East African network.
Read the Tanzania programme story ↗Contribute
Help build a living heritage library.
EduHub welcomes proposals from heritage and museum educators, students and PhD researchers, journalists, heritage professionals, archaeologists, art historians and museum practitioners.
- Everyday heritage, monuments and material culture.
- Museum encounters for young audiences.
- Digitisation, public access and community narratives.
- Repatriation, restitution and colonial legacies.
- Heritage erasure, loss, sustainability and community voices.
2026–2027 focus
What comes next
- Develop pilot resources from HeritageLab and Co-lab materials.
- Turn Right to Remember seminar outcomes into readers and learning prompts.
- Create resources from Better Practice research and consultation.
- Test accessible modules, toolkits and learning pathways with partners.