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On 31 January, a culture-focused “Heritage Hub” was officially launched to make cultural heritage a source of sustainable economic and social benefit for Rwanda’s youth.

While on an ALIPH-ICOM teaching mission in Ouagadougou to teach museum documentation and storage, Mr Gaël de Guichen, Special Advisor to the Director-General of ICCROM, was decorated with the Order of the Stallion, the highest distinction in Burkina Faso.

The newest publication on our virtual bookshelf is the 11th issue of Conversaciones, which shines a spotlight on Spanish professor of art and architecture Fernando Chueca Goitia and Mexican architect Carlos Flores Marini. Each volume focuses on one or two notable figures in conservation and one of their central texts, which has either never been published in Spanish, or whose circulation has been...

This online course will explore how impact assessment and multidisciplinary cooperation can be useful in identifying solutions for both protecting World Heritage sites and supporting high-quality, appropriate development.

ICCROM congratulates the UAE’s former UNESCO Delegate HE Mr Sheikh Salem Khaled Abdulla Mohammed Alqassimi, who has been named Minister of Culture and Youth of the United Arab Emirates.

ICCROM is deeply saddened by the recent earthquake that has devastated Türkiye and Syria. We offer our condolences for the lives tragically lost and the extensive damage caused. We express our solidarity with the affected communities, as well as those engaged in first aid and civil protection activities.

The Director-General and staff of ICCROM express their condolences to Prof. Carbonara’s family, and join the Italian and international conservation communities in mourning the loss of this important figure in the field of heritage conservation.

Last week, we celebrated two milestones in Mosul as 25 young architects and civil engineers graduated from our nine-month course on professional development, and we welcomed a new cohort. The course is implemented in partnership with UNESCO under the ‘Revive the Spirit of Mosul’ initiative and in collaboration with the Government of Iraq, the University of Mosul, the United Arab Emirates and the...

What started as a workshop in 2008 in Ercolano, the Bay of Naples, Italy, has come full circle 15 years later as a thought-provoking ICCROM publication. Heritage Management Practices: Voices from the Field, available for the first time in 2023, presents not only the workshop’s results but also heritage management experiences from 13 countries scattered across the world.

Nearly one year into the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, all types of heritage across Ukraine have been damaged, destroyed or are at risk of becoming so. In response, ICCROM’s First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis Programme (FAR), in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, Maidan Museum and Heritage Emergency Response Initiative (HERI)...