The Saraf Foundation For Himalayan Traditions And Culture supports the preservation, restoration and documentation of arts and heritage of the Kathmandu Valley, and the intellectuals who work selflessly towards these goals.

The Taragaon Museum is the starting point for the Foundation’s work towards preservation. Before 1950, there was no documentation on the Kathmandu Valley, which was then the largest and oldest surviving Hindu Kingdom in the world. With the voluntary opening of its doors to foreign aid organizations, came an influx of intellectuals, artists, photographers, writers. The focus of the Museum is to preserve their work, which would otherwise be lost. These expatriates, who spent three decades in Nepal and made it their home, traveling far and wide across this Himalayan country, are now returning home. The Museum is collecting their contributions, which have never been collected, or recognized. The building where the Museum is housed is itself a marvel. Originally built in 1970, it was swallowed by the surrounding jungle over the last 20 years, and has now been restored to its original architectural glory. The Nepal Architecture Archive( NAA) is a wing of the Saraf Foundation. NAA is located within the Taragaon Museum premises

The NAA is looking to hire 1 (one) Architectural Archivist on a full-time contractual basis. The Archivist is expected to facilitate the documentation and archiving process already underway, and also help in the running and management of the archive in the first 6 (six) months and thereafter supervise and administer the established archive.