Three million for the audiovisual heritage
In late September 2013, Memoriav’s Executive Board approved the 2014 grant allocations. In 2014, Memoriav will provide approximately 2.5 million Swiss francs in funding to support 20 projects across Switzerland aimed at preserving and cataloging Switzerland’s audiovisual cultural heritage.
The association is also investing around half a million francs in the information platform in the coming year Memobase as well as in education and training and collaborations with colleges and universities. In 2014, for example, preservation projects will be supported for the video collection of the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne, for the film collection of the "Fédération internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge" in Geneva and for sound recordings of the constituent assemblies of the Canton of Jura. The preservation measures of SRG SSR in the area of TV/radio and the Cinémathèque suisse in the area of Swiss film heritage are also once again receiving significant support.
The results of a recent Memoriav preservation project can be seen until February 23, 2014 in the exhibition "Emil Schulthess - Retrospective" at the Fotostiftung Schweiz in Winterthur. Important audiovisual holdings and collections are permanently accessible to the public on Memoriav's information platform Memobase.
