Palestinian Museum builds distributed digital archive to preserve cultural heritage amid Gaza destruction
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Tamara Davison
Summary
The article details how Palestinian cultural institutions in Gaza have been systematically destroyed since October 2023, with art galleries, museums, archives, and archaeological sites bombed. In response, a team led by the Palestinian Museum in the occupied West Bank is building a resilient digital archive of Palestinian memory, using distributed backups and cyber resilience to preserve over half a million records beyond any single building or border. The piece explores the intersection of cultural preservation, digital technology, and political resistance against erasure.
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WiredPalestinian Museum builds distributed digital archive to preserve cultural heritage amid Gaza destructionwired.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledWithin a week, Israel bombed two art galleries, seven museums, two main archives in Gaza, and hundreds of archaeological sites
This battle of trying to erase the Palestinian culture and Palestinian identity is not new, but the scale is unprecedented
We are building something that cannot be seized or erased — a digital archive of Palestinian memory
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