International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property
From 6 to 8 December, we will be confronting the negative impacts of climate change on cultural heritage worldwide at a three-day symposium in the United States. The US National Park Service (NPS) and Nantucket Historical Association (NHA), in partnership with ICCROM, are organizing the Climate Change and Cultural Heritage Symposium, which aims to explore the latest climate change research and...
On 19 October, ICCROM Director-General Webber Ndoro had the honour of welcoming H.E. Nosipho Nausca-Jean Jezile, Ambassador of South Africa to Italy, at ICCROM headquarters. In May 2022, ICCROM teamed up with the Government of the Republic of South Africa, alongside the African World Heritage Fund, to commemorate Africa Day 2022 by reflecting and taking action to support and advance the protection...
As we mark 50 years of the World Heritage Convention, young Africans have come together to plan for the next 50 years of heritage conservation in Africa.
Are you a cultural first aider, like AbdelHamid, Manana, Meghna and Fares? Have you received First Aid training from ICCROM or one of its partners or former course participants? Share your story with us!
On International Disaster Risk Reduction Day 2022, we want to consolidate the global network of Cultural First Aiders by offering advanced training, tools and certification to support deployment in complex emergency situations. If you are a Cultural First Aider and have received training from ICCROM, our partners or former participants, register your interest by completing our 5-minute survey.
Our belief in the potential of heritage to be a source of social and economic opportunity for young people led to the creation of our flagship programme, Youth.Heritage.Africa. In a short time, this programme has brought together hundreds of young professionals from across the African continent for training on best practices in heritage management and conservation while seeking to inspire youth to...
We are excited to have renewed our cooperation with the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea (CHA) to invest in providing capacity building, resources and tools to those tasked with the management and conservation of cultural and natural heritage places.
As we prepare to wrap up a successful first cycle of the Building Capacity for Professional Development (Track 1) course, we open the call for 25 new participants to join us! We are now accepting applications for the second cycle of the 9-month course, which will run from December 2022 to August 2023.
ICCROM and the Swedish National Heritage Board have released a Swedish version of the pioneering online resource, Endangered Heritage: Emergency Evacuation of Heritage Collections, developed in partnership with UNESCO.
The two-week “MOSAIKON Advanced Training on Preventive Conservation Measures for Archaeological Sites with Mosaics: Shelters & Reburial” concluded its activities in the Jordanian capital, Amman, yesterday. The training was organized by the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), through its...