International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property 
On 11 November 2025, ICCROM Director-General Aruna Francesca Maria Gujral welcomed to ICCROM Shri Vivek Aggarwal, Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The meeting aimed to explore concrete ways to consolidate and further strengthen the longstanding collaboration between India and ICCROM.
The 2025 International Training Course on Reducing Risks and Increasing Resilience for Sustainable Built Heritage Conservation and Management has successfully concluded, marking the completion of a four-week programme that united 11 heritage professionals from around the world in a shared mission to advance climate action for cultural heritage.
ICCROM and the Scuola nazionale del patrimonio e delle attività culturali (Scuola), with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture, are pleased to announce the closing event of World Heritage in Africa – Fostering Practitioners for Nomination Processes and Strategies (WHAPS), taking place in Rome, Italy from 3 to 5 November 2025.
ICCROM welcomed the 97th Meeting of the Spanish Council for Historical Heritage, a body that brings together all regional authorities responsible for cultural heritage in Spain and is chaired by Ángeles Albert, Director-General for Cultural Heritage and Fine Arts of the Ministry of Culture.
How can the heritage sector better anticipate change, rather than simply react to it? This question guided a dynamic gathering of international heritage leaders at ICCROM’s headquarters in Rome for the Strategic Foresight Workshop: “Anticipating Change – Exploring Long-term Futures for Heritage”.
From 22 to 26 September 2025, ICCROM, together with APOYOnline, the International Institute for Conservation (IIC), and the University of Valencia, gathered civil society organizations and hundreds of museum professionals, archivists, policymakers, researchers and cultural leaders online for the global conference “Collections 2030 and Beyond: Activating Heritage Collections for Sustainable...
The 5th Arab Forum for Cultural Heritage, organized by ICCROM through its Regional Centre in Sharjah, concluded today with a powerful call to empower women and youth as central actors in protecting and revitalizing heritage. Over three days of exchange, cultural leaders, policymakers, and practitioners came together to reaffirm that safeguarding heritage is not only about preserving the past but...
The Integrated Territorial and Urban Conservation (ITUC) course has successfully concluded in Urbino, marking the revival of this landmark ICCROM capacity-building programme after 22 years.
On this International Translation Day, ICCROM highlights the power of languages as bridges of understanding, social cohesion and international cooperation.
ICCROM Director-General Gujral received a courtesy visit from H.E. Mr Martin Selmayr, Ambassador of the European Union to the Holy See, the Order of Malta, the UN Organizations in Rome and to the Republic of San Marino.