Membership objectives
What each pathway is for, and what members commit to.
Practical guides, templates and training for people preserving cultural knowledge. Everything the ARCHIVE Lab teaches in Accra is written up here, so a family, a community group or a department can document, organize, preserve and share an archive responsibly on its own terms.

Signing in opens the member resources and arranges your toolkit around your pathway, with progress and saved guides kept on your Research Desk.
Students & emerging practitioners.
Working creatives, researchers & professionals.
University departments & research centres.
Scanning, photography, recording and free consultations, with an archivist beside you.
Read the Foundation's own catalogue records as worked examples of the templates here.
Community archiving workshops and lectures, in the Lab and out in the traditional areas.
Pick a category to filter the resources below, or work through them in order.
What each pathway is for, and what members commit to.
Discover, learn and begin building a relationship with heritage.
Activities to complete and bring to the centre.
Research, organise and contribute to preserving cultural knowledge.
A working sheet for your first records and research questions.
Share lived knowledge and safeguard community histories.
Prompts for recording a memory or an account.
How a department works with Si Hene on a shared collection.
A planning sheet for a pilot of ten collection records.