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This year marks two decades of contributing to the upskilling of new heritage professionals through the ICCROM Internship and Fellows Programme. A new group of interns and fellows joins us each quarter; in the second quarter of 2022, we welcomed…

Digital documentation is widely recognized as a tool for risk management of cultural heritage exposed to disasters caused by natural hazards such as earthquakes, floods and fires as well as environmental fluctuations and war damage. In recent…

Description Heritage education is important for everyone, at every life stage. Educating children about heritage from an early age is crucial to instilling appreciation and understanding of local and global culture in young, inquisitive minds.…

The volume of digital data in the world is increasing exponentially. In 2020, 64.2 zettabytes of data were created: a 314% increase from 2015. In our growing digital world, we must sustain heritage in the digital domain. This includes…

PREVENT participants share their success stories from Trogir, Croatia From losses suffered due to fire at the Kasubi Royal Tombs, Uganda, in 2010 and 2020 to the severe damage to the National Museum of Brazil in 2018 and Notre Dame in 2019, fire…

Join the launch of the new Sustaining Digital Heritage programme on 18 July The volume of digital data in the world is increasing exponentially. In 2020, 64.2 zettabytes of data were created: a 314% increase from 2015. In our growing digital world,…

As we continue to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ICCROM’s internship programme, we are pleased to have the opportunity to present the work of a second group of talented individuals from around the world, who have taken part in our internship…

Organizers: ICCROM, Universidade Federal da Bahía (Brazil) and Universidad de Playa Ancha (Chile) Objectives The Research Group on History and Theory of Heritage Conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean is an initiative of ICCROM, the…

Dates: 12-13 July 2022 Format: Online, Zoom platform. The seminar will be live streamed via YouTube. Time (Rome - CET): 14:00-18:00 Language: Spanish Organizers: ICCROM, Universidade Federal da Bahía (Brazil) and Universidad de Playa Ancha (…

Curriculum design workshop fosters intergenerational and cross-disciplinary knowledge exchange The First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR) programme of ICCROM is excited to host a curriculum design workshop for…

Cultural heritage is recognized to be crucial to our identity, social values, traditions and livelihood. When faced with a disaster, culture has proven capacities to amplify the resilience of a community and directly contribute to its sustainable…

Practitioners working with heritage in diverse capacities all need to stay up-to-date with the field. To this end, the three Advisory Bodies of the World Heritage Convention  – ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and…

Standardizing emergency preparedness and response for cultural heritage is one of the key strategies for strengthening the accountability of the heritage sector during crises. Taking a leap forward in this direction, ICCROM is pleased to share the…

On 2 June 2022, the Regional Office for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage in the Arab States (ICCROM-Sharjah) announced the winning projects of the 3rd ICCROM-Sharjah Award for Good Practices in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management in…

Watch this video  to learn more about how the First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR) programme of ICCROM integrates culture into the wider programmes for disaster risk reduction, peacebuilding, humanitarian aid…

What role does heritage play in increasing tensions during an ongoing conflict? How do we ensure that protection and recovery of heritage in conflict settings can contribute to lasting peace? PATH, the peacebuilding assessment tool developed by…

On 3 June, students from Sorbonne’s Conservation préventive du patrimoine course visited ICCROM with their professor, Claire Betelu. They were welcomed by Valérie Magar, our Programmes Unit Manager and herself a Sorbonne alumna, Gaël de Guichen,…

Call for Abstracts Deadline to submit abstracts: 30 August 2022 Colloquium dates: 15 – 21 October 2022 Format: Online, Zoom Language: Spanish and Portuguese Organizers: ICCROM, Faculty of Arts and Humanities – Universidad de los Andes, Banco de la…

ICCROM is launching its call for nominations for the 2023 ICCROM Award. What is it?  The ICCROM Award is presented every two years to someone who has contributed greatly to ICCROM’s mission or to the field of cultural heritage protection on a…

Within the framework of the cooperation between the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (MOC) and ICCROM, we are conducting a comprehensive training on International Cultural Heritage Conventions and other cultural programmes, called…

The ICCROM-IUCN World Heritage Leadership Programme, the Norwegian Cultural Heritage Directorate, the Norwegian Environmental Agency and the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment worked together to hold a national workshop to build Norwegian…

Connecting Collections: Unlocking Value in Heritage Samples Archives will take place in-person 13 - 15 June 2022, in Évora, Portugal, but will also be livestreamed on Zoom.  The workshop is organized by ICCROM as part of its Heritage Samples…

Live tour of the Thai Natural History Museum’s storage via Zoom Museums in Southeast Asia have put theory into practice when it comes to managing their collections, using skills they learned at last year’s ICCROM course. The ten museums that…

Park Yoon Hee. Celestial Motifs : Ancient Tomb Murals of the Goguryeo Dynasty. Daejeon, NRICH, 2020. It is a normal Monday morning at the ICCROM Library. I start the day by flipping through the mail piling up on my desk – most of the envelopes…

Franco Adamo Franco Adamo, lifelong restorer and ICCROM alumnus (1984), passed away on 12 May 2022, in the care of Adele Cecchini, his partner in life and work. Throughout his illustrious career, he helped bring new life to centuries’-old murals…