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Ivorian minister Françoise Remarck launches Génération Patrimoine

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Ivory Coast’s Minister of Culture and Francophonie, Françoise Remarck, has launched the “Génération Patrimoine” initiative in Abidjan to gather young people’s proposals on the future of cultural heritage. Consultations are planned in several cities and will inform a museum policy suited to national realities, the minister said at the launch on 14 October 2026.

Ivory Coast’s Minister of Culture and Francophonie, Françoise Remarck, launched the “Génération Patrimoine” initiative on Wednesday 14 October 2026 at the Museum of Civilisations of Ivory Coast in Abidjan, the Ivorian Press Agency (AIP) reports. The programme aims to bring young people closer to their cultural heritage through public consultations held in several cities.

The consultations are intended to gather and organise young people’s proposals on the future of Ivorian cultural heritage. Their contributions are intended to inform the development of a museum policy suited to national realities and open to new ways of promoting cultural heritage, according to AIP.

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