Education and Community Outreach

Promoting awareness and understanding of Laos’ ethnic diversity and cultural heritage within local communities is a priority for TAEC. The Centre is free for Lao citizens, and runs a range of Lao-language tours and activities for students and other local visitors throughout the year. We have welcomed students of Big Brother Mouse, the Children’s Cultural Centre, the Teacher Training College, Souphanouvong University, and local schools. TAEC also runs a primary school outreach programme, in which our staff visit local classrooms to show objects from our collection and discuss issues around cultural diversity and identity.

Committed to building capacity across all parts of the community, TAEC also provides professional development opportunities for workers in the culture and tourism sectors. The Luang Prabang Provincial Tourism Department invites TAEC to run a workshop for trainee tour guides, focusing on sensitive and mutually beneficial interaction with ethnic minority communities. TAEC also provides specialised museum and heritage management training, and has to date worked with the staffs of the Phongsaly, Sekong, Xieng Khouang provincial museums, and Champassak Provincial Tourism Department to support them in creating exhibitions, managing their collections, and working with local communities.

TAEC is also home to a free library of books, articles, and other materials on the subjects of ethnology, Lao history, cultural heritage, and Southeast Asian arts, and acts as a repository for ethnology research in Laos. Resources are in English, Lao, Thai, and French. We currently hold over 400 books as well as CD/DVDs of Lao documentaries and musical recordings. In the future, we hope to grow this into a larger resource centre.

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Education and Community Outreach

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