Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museums A Crossing of Several Projects and Trajectories Introduction

In this concise institutional introduction text, guest editors Jorijn Neyrinck, Evdokia Tsakiridis and Marc Jacobs contextualise the publication of the special issue of the journal Volkskunde on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museums as a scholarly result of cooperation between actors in the European Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museums Project, moderated by NGO Workshop intangible heritage (BE), and the UNESCO chair on critical heritage studies and the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.