[1] A project for complete renovation and digital inventories of the collection was started in 2022 by the Cultural Protection Fund (CPF) of the British Council and other international, as well as Sudanese organizations.
In 1972, the museum was relocated and opened under the scientific direction of the German ethnologist Lothar Stein in a former officers club in al-Gamaa Avenue in downtown Khartoum.
Apart from modernizing the former exhibition and including further cultural objects from pastoralists in Darfur and Kordofan, this project aims to prevent the impacts of flooding caused by climate change and to build a new domed roof for the museum.
[8] For the British-Sudanese project "Safeguarding Sudan's Living Heritage from Conflict and Climate Change" (SSLH), the CPF also funded the creation of an online platform.
It encompasses how people dance, create music, cultivate their food, care for their livestock, craft artifacts, celebrate traditions, and practice their beliefs.
It serves as a wellspring of local wisdom and vibrancy that can help shape Sudan's future.Partners in this project are several British, international and Sudanese cultural institutions, including the Sudan National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, the British Institute of Eastern Africa, the Regional Conservation Office of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM)-ATHAR, the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre (CHRC), as well as the Mapping Africa’s Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments Project.