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We are organizing the first-ever Heritage Hubs Connect Forum at Fort Jesus in Mombasa, Kenya, from 27 to 31 March 2023. The Forum will bring together about 30 stakeholders from African and European universities, heritage institutions, and cultural…

The first in-person ICCROM course in Rome since before the pandemic will begin on Friday, 17 March 2023. ICCROM has been a pioneer in organizing heritage conservation courses since 1965, with many alumni becoming leaders in the conservation field.…

International Training Course (ITC) on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2023, 17th year, Ritsumeikan University, in collaboration with ICCROM Dates and Time Online: 14 August to 1 September 2023, 8:00-10:30 (CET/Summer), 15:00-17…

On 7 March 2023, Daniela Sauer, ICCROM Library Lead Librarian, visited the international Bologna Children's Book Fair, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. The most important event of its kind, the fair offers a platform for exchange…

Description This webinar will take a look at the world of marketing and business management with a view to exploring how heritage organizations can re-envision their business model to one that centres on customer well-being. Participatory business…

The 5th International Conference Green Conservation Of Cultural Heritage is announced as a stage to present the developments and new perspectives for sustainability in the Cultural Heritage field! It will take place in the…

  Dates: 19-21 and 24-26 April 2023; 15:00 – 18:00 Rome time (CET)  Place: Online  Application deadline: 31 March 2023  Organizers: ICCROM, IUCN, Regional Institute for World Heritage in Zacatecas (IRPMZ), Unit for Latin America…

Ordinarily, it’s the library (or the librarian) who chooses the new acquisitions for collections. We either search out new titles in our favourite publishers’ newsletters or peruse internet catalogs for titles linked to ICCROM’s programmes and…

On 2 and 3 March 2023, the Foundation Partners of the World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme – ICCROM, IUCN and the Ministry of Climate and Environment of Norway – met in Rome to kick off Phase 2 and shape future work on World Heritage capacity…

We joined our long-standing partner, the ALIPH Foundation, and other cultural heritage preservation leaders at the 2023 ALIPH Forum in Abu Dhabi from 6 to 7 March 2023. ICCROM team members engaged in multiple fora across the two-day forum, which…

International and multilateral organizations must constantly evolve to deliver on their complex mandates in times of economic, social, and political change. Progress in technology permits an unprecedented opportunity for organizations involved in…

This year’s first edition of the People-Nature-Culture (PNC) course brought together 25 practitioners from 24 countries. There will be four more editions of PNC in 2023.   The course ‘Managing World Heritage: People Nature Culture’ (PNC) is a…

Today, 6 March 2023, ICCROM Director-General Dr Webber Ndoro was honoured to welcome the Ambassador of Spain to the Republic of Italy, H.E. Miguel Fernández-Palacios. The Ambassador was accompanied by the Permanent Representative of the Embassy of…

Do you work in the field of cultural heritage, or are you simply passionate about the field? Do you have events or projects to promote or resources and events to share? ICCROM's classifieds section is the right place for you! The classifieds section…

Organizers: ICCROM, Universidade Federal da Bahía (Brazil) and Universidad de Playa Ancha (Chile) Context The year 2022 marked the First Seminar on Seminar on History of Built Heritage Conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean among…

Left to right: Patricia Kell, Executive Director of Cultural Heritage at Parks Canada and member of the ICCROM Council, Webber Ndoro, ICCROM Director-General and Ron Hallman, President and CEO of Parks Canada. On 27 February 2023, our Director-…

Organizers The National Museum of Tajikistan National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Republic of Korea (NRICH) ICCROM Partners Cultural Heritage Administration of the Republic of Korea (CHA) Why Conserving heritage collections is vital…

This blog post was authored by Rohit Jigyasu, ICCROM Project Manager, Urban Heritage, Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management.   Disasters upend lives, communities and societies. Natural and human-induced hazards can devastate lives…

The Arab region is home to diverse cultural heritage with many layers of themes to consider. This complexity called for a continuation of the ICCROM Arab Forum for Cultural Heritage series, the second edition of which centred on the theme of “…

On 21 February, professor Lyette Fortin and her architecture and conservation students from Carleton University, Canada, visited us at ICCROM headquarters. Professor Fortin spent several months at ICCROM in 1986, participating in one of our…

The Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network (BCIN) – one of the most important tools for retrieving bibliographic information on cultural heritage conservation – is now available in French and Spanish. For the past 35 years,…

المُلتقى العربي الثاني للتراث الثقافي بعنوان: " الأصالة و المجتمع و حفظ التُّراث" تقدم وقائع هذا الملتقى نماذج دراسية وفكرية وتطبيقية تطرح قضايا بارزة حول مفهوم الأصالة والمعاصرة وإعادة البناء، وتطرح حلول تنبثق من دور المؤسسات الثقافية في إشراك…

On 16 February 2023, our Director-General Webber Ndoro welcomed representatives of the Stati Generali del Patrimonio Italiano – President Prof. Ivan Drogo Inglese and General Counsel Carlo Magrassi – to ICCROM headquarters. Also present was Dr Iyad…

Do you work with collections or in a collections-based institution such as a museum, archive or library? Would you like to unlock the full potential of these collections to make concrete contributions to sustainable development? Let us help you turn…

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.  Photo: Rwanda Heritage Hub On 31 January 2023, the new Rwanda…