Oman implementing projects to preserve handicrafts heritage

Oman implementing projects to preserve handicrafts heritage

Muscat: The Ministry of Heritage and Tourism is implementing a number of projects that aims at preserving the handicrafts heritage, which is considered as a part of the national treasure and one of the most important pillars of preserving the Omani identity.

The implementation of these projects stems from the value added of the handicraft heritage for the tourism sector.

Alia Salim Al Hinai, Director of the Craft Heritage Department at the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism, said: “The handicraft heritage is everything that has historical, cultural and social importance, and inherited through generations, including the handicraft products, their elements, the associated moral, utilitarian or aesthetic value such as knowledge, skills and techniques."

"It also includes environments for practicing crafts with machines, equipment and sites of extraction of raw materials for creating crafts in their various industries such as wood, which includes the manufacture of ships and boats, silverware, daggers, ornaments, copper and metals, as well as leather industries, pottery, ceramics, palm fronds, the distillation of aromatic plants, incense, stone, gypsum and bone industries, musical instruments, fishing tools, cotton and woolen fabric, paints and dye."

She added that the ministry is interested in all matters related to the craft heritage in a way that