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L-R: Mr Eung Chon Choi, Administrator of the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA), and ICCROM Director-General Dr Webber Ndoro. Photo: The Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea (CHA)

Korea pledges continued support of People-Nature-Culture capacity-building course

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.

Call for Applications: Building Capacity for Professional Development (Track 1) Mosul

Heritage Recovery in Mosul: Apply now for the Building Capacity for Professional Development course!

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.

Endangered Heritage: Emergency Evacuation of Heritage Collections in Swedish

Endangered Heritage translated into its 15th language - Swedish!

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.

Advanced Course on Conservation of Mosaics concluded in Jordan

Advanced Course on Conservation of Mosaics concluded in Jordan

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...

VCC workshop

Valuing Cultural Capital initiative: Workshop, webinar and survey launch

ICCROM’s Valuing Cultural Capital: Accounting for the Hidden Value of Heritage initiative kicked off earlier this month with a workshop, public webinar and survey launch to our Member States.

Our Collections Matter toolkit is now available in Spanish!

Our Collections Matter toolkit is now available in Spanish!

ICCROM is pleased to announce the launch of the Our Collections Matter (OCM) Toolkit website in Spanish. This long-awaited website translation has become a reality thanks to the generous support of the International Council of Museums-Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC) and the Universidad de los Andes.

“Net Zero: Heritage for Climate Action” sets out to tackle climate crisis in 5 climate hotspots

“Net Zero: Heritage for Climate Action” sets out to tackle climate crisis in 5 climate hotspots

Ubatuba, a nature reserve in Brazil; Rosetta, an Egyptian coastal city; Kerman, part of the Lut desert in Iran; and Kasese, on the outer edge of Uganda’s Rwenzori National Park: these five climate hotspots are the final innovation sites of ICCROM’s cascading capacity-development project, “Net Zero: Heritage for Climate Action.”

Cevat Erder

Remembering Cevat Erder, former Director-General of ICCROM

It is with a heavy heart that we share the news of the passing of Cevat Erder - a former ICCROM Director-General (1981-1988) and a prominent figure in the field.

Saudi Ministry of Culture Completes the Underwater Cultural Heritage Training Program 

Saudi Ministry of Culture Completes the Underwater Cultural Heritage Training Program

The Saudi Ministry of Culture completed a specialized training program on the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage. Ten specialists from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the State of Qatar participated in the program, which is part of the Ministry’s ongoing Experts Program - a capacity-building initiative, developed in cooperation with ICCROM, to qualify experts...

Cultural heritage first aid: A pathway to post-disaster psychosocial support 

Cultural heritage first aid: A pathway to post-disaster psychosocial support 

Providing a resource to those in Japan: First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis Handbook translated into Japanese.