Cluster 19 of 28. Ideas 381 to 395
Heritage, archives and film
The mechanism
Eight World Heritage Sites and 2,300 years of records, and the country's story is told to the world by other people.
The 15 ideas
- 381A film-location service: crews, permits, fixers and locations, sold to the studios of India and Europe
- 382Documentary production about the island's own stories, sold to the streaming platforms
- 383A museum shop worthy of the museum, at the National Museum, at Anuradhapura, at Galle
- 384Digitisation of the palm-leaf manuscripts and colonial archives as a paid service to the libraries of the world
- 385Architecture tours of Bawa's buildings with the houses opened by their owners
- 386Heritage-building restoration firms with the skills to work on the forts and the villas
- 387Galle Fort as a managed heritage site, run with the residents
- 388Audio guides for every major site in ten languages, sold by download
- 389A publishing house for Sri Lankan history in English, since the good books are out of print
- 390Heritage craftsmanship training: lime plaster, timber, tile, the trades the old buildings need
- 391Photography archives of the island, licensed to the publishers and the film-makers
- 392The Ceylon Railway as a heritage line, with the carriages restored and the stations kept
- 393Colombo walking tours through the Pettah, the Fort and Slave Island
- 394Jaffna and Kandy literary festivals to sit beside Galle's
- 395A national portrait project: the Sri Lankans who built things, photographed and exhibited, then sold as a book