International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property
On 5 March 2024, ICCROM Director-General Aruna Francesca Maria Gujral received a visit from Carlotta del Bianco, President of Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco, and Simone Giacometti, General Secretary.
We are pleased to share an update on the Our Collections Matter (OCM) initiative, a programme dedicated to empowering collections-based institutions to contribute to sustainable development. This update highlights inspiring success stories, the launch of valuable new resources, and the new call for applications to participate in the 2024 OCM Field Projects.
On Tuesday, 27 February 2024, ICCROM Director-General Aruna Francesca Maria Gujral had the honour of receiving Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Italy, Permanent Representative to RBAs, HE Mr Rashad Aslanov.
In a significant step towards bolstering cooperation, ICCROM and the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro (ICR) have recently embarked on a series of visits to their respective headquarters.
On 22 February, ICCROM Director General Aruna Francesca Maria Gujral had the honour of welcoming HE Olga Maria Pérez Tuna, Ambassador of Guatemala to Italy, and Ministro Consigliere Cecilia Cáceres Valdez to ICCROM HQ. This gathering allowed us to explore opportunities to strengthen our cooperation towards our shared commitment to conserving cultural heritage.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS. The European Commission’s Directorate General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture is supporting ICCROM and its flagship Programme, First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis, to establish Ukraine’s first national, ready-to-deploy team of 20-25 cultural first aiders.
ICCROM, through our Regional Centre in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates, has joined forces with the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) to release two critical new resources covering cultural heritage recovery and international policymaking.
On 20 February 2024, Professor Lyette Fortin, an alumna of ICCROM's ARC course in 1986, returned to ICCROM along with her students from the Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Program at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Do you work with collections or in a collections-based organization, such as a museum, archive, or library? Would you like to unlock the full potential of these collections to make concrete contributions to sustainable development? Let us help you turn your aspirations into reality using the Our Collections Matter Toolkit!
The Heritage-Based Climate Action International Virtual Conference presents three opportunities to take your participation to the next level. All of these are transformative exchanges of ideas about the intersection of heritage conservation, climate action, disaster risk reduction and peacebuilding.