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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…

ICCROM wishes to express its solidarity and heartfelt sympathy with the Brazilian people and heritage authorities for the sad losses caused by the huge fire that ravaged the country’s 200-year-old National Museum last Sunday, in the city of…

Organizer: Kizhi Open Air Museum       Partners: ICCROM Petrozavodsk State University, UNESCO Chair «Wooden Architecture Research and Preservation» Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation Justification The Russian…

In the magnificent setting of the Victoria Falls/ Mosi-oa-Tunya transboundary World Heritage Site shared by Zambia and Zimbabwe, 20 participants from 16 different African countries explored the challenge of putting people back into the centre…

    ICCROM, through its ICCROM-ATHAR Regional Office, is proud to announce receipt of a £997,000 project grant to conserve three community museums in Omdurman, El Obeid, and Nyala, located in Western Sudan. This project will…

15 August 2018, Amsterdam   A fire, an evacuation, a crash – on 22 August, international participants in the course ‘First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis’ (FAC) will be rushed to the scene of a large-scale, simulated…

IIC Point of the Matter Dialogue in Turin, Italy on 12 September 2018 PRESS RELEASE In early September, seven remarkable speakers including conservators, soldiers and firefighters will explore why preserving heritage is essential for the…

On Wednesday 8 August, ICCROM received the visit of Martine Garcia-Mascarenhas, Second Secretary at the Embassy of Monaco in Italy, with her colleague Maria Concetta Scioscia of the Embassy of Monaco. They were welcomed by ICCROM's Director-…

  The latest edition of ICCROM’s flagship First Aid to Cultural Heritage (FAC) course has kicked off in Brabant, Netherlands.  The course, held on 6 – 24 August 2018, will train 24 heritage and first response professionals from 23…

José Luiz Pedersoli Jr. from Brazil has joined ICCROM as Project Manager - Conservation of Collections. He holds a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and a Master of Science in polymer chemistry from…

ICCROM at the 42nd session of the World Heritage Committee in Manama, Bahrain, 21-30 June 2018 The 42nd session of the World Heritage Committee meeting held in June put a strong emphasis on the importance of capacity building. Numerous…

A wealth of conservation knowledge and expertise is contained in ICCROM’s many past publications, produced from 1961 to 2003. Previously, these resources were largely inaccessible to researchers and conservation practitioners because the…

On 19-21 June, ICCROM participated in a disaster simulation exercise for salvage of cultural heritage, held in Lucca, Italy. The exercise was part of a multi-year initiative organized by the Italian Civil Protection Department under PROMEDHE…

Where do heritage professionals look for when they are in need of advice on preventive conservation? How do they update their knowledge? As promoters and producers of preventive conservation knowledge, ICCROM and the Canadian Conservation…

Paper and Water: A Guide for Conservators, the handbook published by Gerhard Banik and Irene Brückle in 2011, after a decade of close cooperation with ICCROM, has been republished in a revised and expanded 2nd edition by Anton Siegl in Munich…

The European Cultural Heritage Summit, held in Berlin, Germany from 18 to 24 June 2018, provided a venue to reflect on the present and future of cultural heritage in Europe. The week-long Summit saw exchanges from a wide range of culture actors and…

According to a 2015 study carried out by Cisco, by 2019 over 80% of global Internet consumption will be video content. These steadily increasing sounds and images have permeated every sphere of our contemporary lives. Advances in technology…

On 11 June, Nina Shangina, Chairperson, Council of the Union of Restorers of St Petersburg and ICCROM Council Member, and Sergey Makarov, Chairman, Government of St. Petersburg Committee for State Preservaton of Historical and Cultural…

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…

© Quang Nguyen Vinh via Pixabay Typically found in the hilly areas, the terraced landscapes of Vietnam have permitted pond-field techniques for rice cultivation to be used in mountainous terrain. This agricultural practice has shaped…

On the occasion of Russia Day on 12 June, a national holiday in the Russian Federation that commemorates the adoption of the Russian constitution in 1990, ICCROM wishes to congratulate an important Member State in ICCROM's worldwide community…

An ICCROM-led workshop has marked the beginning of a consultation campaign in the Lake Ohrid region, involving a local team of volunteers from both the Albanian and Macedonian sides. This campaign supports the EU-UNESCO project, “Towards…

Recent decades have witnessed a fundamental change in social values throughout the world, and this in turn has affected the ways in which we think about and care for cultural heritage. Increasingly, heritage professionals are challenged to…

Organizers Ho Chi Minh City University of Culture ICCROM With the support of CHA – Korean Cultural Heritage Administration   Why Photographic and Archival Collections cover historical, artistic and identity-building values…

  Course on Management and Monitoring of World Heritage Sites with special reference to China   ORGANIZERS   SACH - State Administration of Cultural Heritage, China ICM - INSTITUTO CULTURAL do Governo da R.A.E de Macao SAR,…