The collection of architectural drawings and photographs concentrates on vernacular architecture of the Kalasha Valley, Mustang, Ladakh and Tibet. It comprises some 500 drawings of extraordinary quality produced over the course of some 30 years, illustrating the rapidly disappearing heritage that is under threat from economic development as well as natural disasters such as the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Read more
Photographs and architectural drawings focusing on the group’s work on heritage documentation and conservation with a view towards architectural research across a number of disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, hydro-geology and architecture. Read more
Black & white and color historic photographs from various locations across the Sultanate of Oman taken from 1972 up to 1979 by geophysicist John Warr who has worked in Oman and was engaged in geological and geophysical exploitation for oil and gas worldwide for nearly forty five years. Read more
Comprising around 4500 slides from the 1970s, 80s and 90s from the Sultanate of Oman made by the German Professor of Geography Fred Scholz. This collection records the extraordinary economic and cultural changes which the country has undergone on the road from an agrarian society to a modern industrial oil economy in the course of little over 3 decades. Read more