Records and Archives

International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property

Our Mission

The mission of ICCROM’s Records and Archives is to supervise and administer the creation, organization, maintenance, retention and disposal of ICCROM records, as well as to perform archival processing (arrangement, description and housing), handling physical and intellectual control of the records. The aim is to ensure the long-term preservation of analogue and digital forms and provide access for study and research purposes.

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2024-11-14

ICCROM Scientific Principles of Conservation Course

This image captures ICCROM course participants at a site visit in Rome in 1976, during the third edition of the

ICCROM Mural Painting Conservation Course (MPC): Preparation of wall paintings, 1972

2024-08-05

ICCROM Mural Painting Conservation Course: Preparation of wall paintings, 1972

This image by Laura Sbordoni Mora depicts course participants during the preparation of wall paintings at ICCROM premises in 1972.

2024-06-05

ICCROM International Architectural Conservation Course (ARC): Study Project, Capua, Italy, 1971

The drawing was elaborated by participants of the 1971 Architectural Conservation Course, organized by ICCROM in co-operation with the Scuola

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Heritage and People

The Archives are the trusted custodian of the memory of ICCROM. They are essential to the good governance of the organization as they provide evidence, explanation and justification for past actions and current decisions. The heritage they preserve is unique and, if lost, cannot be replaced.

Currently, the Archives store over 800 linear meters of records produced by ICCROM from its inception in 1956 to the present. These records testify to:

ICCROM's activities all over the world, such as missions, programmes and projects for capacity building, advice, advocacy and research concerning the preservation of cultural heritage worldwide;
our interactions with Member States, partner institutions, communities and individual professionals; and
the policymaking work of its governing bodies – the General Assembly, Council, Office of the Director-General – and the finance and administration of the organization.

The Archives preserve not only textual records (analogue and digital) but also architectural drawings (around 4 500), posters, images (including over 230 000 analogue photographs), motion picture films and audiovisual recordings (over 10 000), and didactic and scientific materials, such as heritage material samples (over 5 000 from the Sample Collections of Paolo and Laura Mora, Giorgio Torraca and Rodolfo Luján-Lunsford).

Many stories of heritage and people can be discovered among these records. We hope ICCROM Archives can stimulate research and contribute to progress in the heritage preservation field.