Asia and the Pacific

ICCROM’s Regional Conservation Centre in Sharjah, in partnership with UNESCO and the New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), is organizing a four-day Regional Workshop on the Protection and Management of the Maritime, Coastal and Underwater Cultural Heritage, from 28 to 31 January 2019.

The CollAsia international course on “Conserving Photographic and Archival Collections” was successfully held in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, from 22 November to 15 December 2018. CollAsia is a training partnership between ICCROM and the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea (CHA) to improve the conservation and use of heritage collections in Southeast Asia. Every year, a course is organized in...

CHA Korea supports the World Heritage Leadership Programme, recognizing importance of people, nature, culture interlinkages for heritage management

On 13 December, Dr Webber Ndoro, ICCROM’s Director-General, visited the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) in New Delhi, India to speak about cultural heritage with students, faculty and alumni of that institution. The school’s director, Dr PSN Rao and its dean, Dr Sanjukkta Bhaduri, introduced the role of the various departments in the field of planning, habitat studies and involvement in...

When disasters strike, local communities are the first to try and safeguard their cultural heritage, however their ability to intervene is often greatly reduced during complex and multi-faceted humanitarian crises. At the same time, first responders may not always be aware of what is culturally important, and they often lack the training to handle heritage objects and structures, and meet the...

From 8 – 19 October, the Course on Management & Monitoring of World Heritage Sites was held in the Historic Centre of Macao SAR, China. Lasting two weeks, the course provided ten international participants and 13 Chinese participants with theoretical lectures and on-site practice, using the Historic Centre of Macao as a case study. Senior experts from ICCROM, mainland China and Macao gave guidance...

The 2018 edition of the International Course on Japanese Paper Conservation (JPC) was held from 29 August to 17 September in Tokyo, Japan. This highly specialized, three-week event brought together ten heritage professionals from around the world. For the first time, colleagues from Fiji and Zambia joined the course.

Cyclones, typhoons, floods and earthquakes have been identified as the biggest threats to human development. They are also on the rise, with devastating consequences for cultural heritage. For this reason, as a field, we are increasingly finding ourselves in the position of needing to be ready at any moment to intervene after a disaster strikes.

The 42nd session of the World Heritage Committee meeting held in June put a strong emphasis on the importance of capacity building. Numerous committee decisions requested and recommended capacity building for conservation of sites, with the Site Managers Forum adding a firm voice to the importance and vital need for better guidance and assistance.

The Egyptian National Organization for Urban Harmony, operating under Egypt’s Ministry of Culture in collaboration with UNESCO, has chosen to honour two prominent architectural heritage specialists from Egypt and the Arab world, for their significant contributions to safeguard cultural heritage.