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Following the instructions of the Governments of Italy and Sharjah, UAE to urgently contain the spread of COVID-19, ICCROM's premises both in Rome and in Sharjah will be closed until further notice. This closure includes that of the Library…

On Thursday 5 March at 15:00 the Director-General received the visit of the Ambassador of Israel, H.E. Dror Eydar. In attendance, Joe King.

Peter Rockwell, sculptor, expert in the history and techniques of stone carving, and frequent lecturer on ICCROM courses, died at Danvers, MA, USA on 6 February 2020 at the age of 83. There are numerous conservators around the world who, as…

Organizers Institute of Disaster Mitigation for Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) Partners ICOM Cultural…

On 3 March at 10:30 the Director-General received the visit of H.E. Mammad Ahmadzada, Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan, who was joined by Mr Elvin Ashrafzade, Second Secretary at the Embassy. In attendance, Joe King and Valerie Magar.

The Reina Sofía Contemporary Art Museum, Madrid, Spain, organizes a two-day conference on the Conservation of Contemporary Art (Thursday 27 and Friday 28 February 2020). The conference aims at sharing experiences and research on the topic,…

The Megalithic Jar Sites in Xiengkhuang – Plain of Jars in central Laos, is one of the country’s three World Heritage Properties, inscribed on the List in 2019. The Outstanding Universal Value of this fascinating property lies in more than…

When disasters strike, years of human achievement can be wiped away in a moment. In such crises, the affected people are anxious to salvage what is left of their personal belongings and their cultural heritage. First Aid for Cultural Heritage…

On 12th of February 2020 the Director-General received the visit of Ms Daniela Porro, Soprintendente Speciale Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Roma, and Alessandro Mascherucci, Architect in charge of the Portion of San Michele Complex.…

On 7th of February 2020 the Director-General received the visit of the Ambassador of Angola, H.E. Maria de Fátima Jardim.   In attendance, Rim Kelouze, ICCROM consultant for the Africa Programme. Member State represented: Angola

Partner: Athabasca University (Canada's Open Online University) Why Successful interdisciplinary collaboration is essential for meaningful conservation actions. A shared understanding of core principles of the diverse fields involved is…

Organization TOBUNKEN - Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties ICCROM - International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property The Course Japanese paper is internationally recognised as…

The evaluation report of ICCROM’s 31st General Assembly is now available. Download it here. Based on feedback provided by delegates attending the General Assembly, from 30-31 October 2019, this evaluation is vital to assessing outcomes and…

ICCROM and the Getty Foundation have published the first compilation of readings in the conservation of mosaics in Arabic, for free download. Over the last ten years, the conservation of mosaic heritage has been the focus of the MOSAIKON…

It is with great sadness that ICCROM acknowledges the death of Dr. Roland Silva, former Director General of Archaeology of Sri Lanka and former President of ICOMOS International. Dr. Silva studied architecture in the 1950s at the…

The first RE-ORG workshop in Spain was held in December 2019 at the Victor Balaguer Library-Museum in Vilanova i la Geltru in Catalonia. It was conducted in the framework of the preventive conservation strategy developed by the Department of…

The eighth international First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAC) course concluded on 6 December at ICCROM’s headquarters in Rome. For four weeks, 16 participants from 14 countries (Chile, Egypt, Estonia, Georgia, Honduras,…

ICCROM is proud to announce the release of the Portuguese version of Endangered Heritage: Emergency Evacuation of Heritage Collections translated by the Grupo de Amigos do Museu Nacional dos Coches (GAMNAC), in collaboration with ICOM…

The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), through its Regional Office in Sharjah, UAE (ICCROM-Sharjah) joins efforts with the INTERPOL (the International Criminal Police…

Photo by: Jaanus Jagomägi/unsplash ICCROM was present on 10 December at an event organized by the Embassy of Qatar in Rome, as part of a programme of celebrations being held to honour Qatar National Day (also known as 'Founder's Day').…

On 5th of December  2019 the Director-General received the visit of Amb. Andrea Meloni, International School of Cultural Heritage of the Fondazione Scuola dei beni e delle attivitá culturali. In attendance, Maria Teresa Jaquinta Member…

In the frame of a long-term national program RE-ORG Serbia, the first in the series of workshops is going to be organized in the National museum in Kraljevo (central Serbia), from 2-7 December 2019. The host museum will welcome 11 colleagues…

Five months after the successful RE-ORG workshop that took place in the Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia (Muzej Novejše Zgodovine Slovenije) in Ljubljana, RE-ORG Slovenia moved to its second phase. From 22 to 24 October 2019, a…

ICCROM, CCI and the Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation are pleased to offer the RE-ORG Method free download in two new languages, Italian and Arabic. More than 55 000 museums exist in the world, and typically 90% of their objects are in…

In 2017, a pilot survey of contemporary art collections in Argentinian museums was carried out by ICCROM, in collaboration with the Argentinian Ministry of Culture (Dirección Nacional de Bienes y Sitios Culturales – DNBSC).  This survey…