Dear Ceres Bainbridge:

        You may wish to get in touch with the DakshinaChitra a heritage center in
the Coromandel Coast area of Southern India. The center (which is made up
of a set of pavilions) itself seems to have been built only recently but
using traditional methods. I get the impression from your description of
what you hope to do that you will be working with a network of heritage
buildings scattered over a large area. Nevertheless, I think the Center is
engaged in programs that hope to assist in the preservation of both the
architectural and crafts heritage of their area.

        I also recall from a conversation with one of the women from the center
that the country that she had visited with a lot of heritage centers is
Romania. I'm afraid though that I wouldn't know how you could obtain
addresses etc. Perhaps thru the internet or thru the UNESCO e-mail?

Address of DakshinaChitra is :

c/o Madras Craft Foundation,
G-3, 6 Urur Oclott Road, Besant Nagar, Chenai 600 090, India

Tel/fax : 091 -44 - 4918943
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Note: their e-mail servers are always on the blink.

Good Luck.

Victorino M. Manalo,
Philippines.


At 15:34 18/09/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Dear Fellow Listers:
>
>The project I am working on, the Heartland Heritage Center, is in its
proposal
>stage of infancy.
>
>The principals would like to create an archives of living histories, a
>heritage center, remote houses, farms, and sites that are interpreted, a
>museum, and a conference center for groups, think tanks, scholars and/or
>artists.
>
>I'm aware of places like Williamsburg, Virginia and Mystic Seaport,
>Connecticut, but does anyone know of institutional models, especially small-
>to-midsize organizations, which include any or all of these functions?
>
>Thank you for your suggestions.
>
>Ceres Bainbridge
>
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