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© Johnathan Watts du MEG At the request of the Geneva Ethnographic Museum (MEG), Gaël de Guichen and Marjolijn Debulpaep of the Royal Institute of Artistic Heritage (KIK-IRPA), Brussels, Belgium, carried out a RE-ORG workshop in 1 – 2…

Post-conflict reconstruction of historic cities, Louvre-Lens Museum, 20 – 21 January 2017 A special symposium on post-conflict reconstruction of historic cities, organized by ICCROM, the Louvre-Lens Museum and the Institut du monde…

  Deadline extended:  April 3, 2017 Place: Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana Organizers: ICCROM and the University of Ghana The Challenge Recorded sound and images have captured our world,…

Post-conflict reconstruction of historic cities, Louvre-Lens Museum, 20 – 21 January 2017 A special symposium on post-conflict reconstruction of historic cities, organized by ICCROM, the Louvre-Lens Museum and the Institut du monde…

Download: Boletín LATAM Octubre-Diciembre 2016 – Nº 7 The aim of the LATAM Newsletter is to give the opportunity to conservation professionals in Latin America and the Caribbean to share their research and professional experiences throughout…

  Application deadline: 31 March 2017 Place: Røros Mining Town and the Circumference, Norway Organizers: ICCROM, IUCN and the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment, in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Office of Culture…

On 1 February Mr Francesco Rutelli, President of the "Incontro di Civiltà" Association, and Prof Paolo Matthiae, La Sapienza University, visited ICCROM to meet with the Director-General, Stefano De Caro. In attendance: Joseph King, Sites Unit…

It is with great sadness that ICCROM says farewell to friend and colleague Donatella Zari, who passed away in Rome on 27 December 2016. Donatella and her husband of 49 years, Carlo Giantomassi, worked with ICCROM on numerous projects and…

The fourth ICCROM-CHA Annual Forum was concluded on 9 December 2016 at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The Annual Forum has been organized since 2013, with the collaboration and financial support of the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) of…

The first International Training Workshop on the Museum Environment and Preventive Conservation is being held in Tehran from 8 to 12 January 2017. It brings together 34 museum professionals from Iran, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan,…

The fourth ICCROM-CHA Annual Forum concluded on 9 December 2016 at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The Annual Forum has been organized since 2013, with the collaboration and financial support of the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) of…

Saving and Reconstructing Heritage At a time when significant archaeological treasures in the Middle East are threatened by tragic current events, the Louvre-Lens Museum is hosting a special event from 19 – 21 January on the theme of…

Course Announcement ORGANIZATION 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…

In conjunction with the exhibition "History begins in Mesopotamia" on view until 23 January 2017, and in response to current events in the Middle East, the Louvre-Lens Museum and ICCROM, through its ICCROM-ATHAR Regional Conservation Centre in the…

In conjunction with the exhibition “History begins in Mesopotamia” on view until 23 January 2017, and in response to current events in the Middle East, the Louvre-Lens Museum and ICCROM, through its ICCROM-ATHAR Regional Conservation Centre…

New user-friendly handbook launched by ICCROM and UNESCO helps save heritage collections in emergencies. Armed conflicts and natural disasters causing deliberate or collateral damage to cultural heritage are more prominent than ever. To help…

The 5th RE-ORG course (Reorganization of Collections in Museum Storage) was held from 1 to 11 November 2016 in the City Palace Museum, located in the superb palace of the Maharajah of Udaipur. The course was held by the Indira Gandhi National Center…

Representatives from over 40 nations met in Abu Dhabi, UAE from 2 – 3 December to join in a “common determination to safeguard the endangered cultural heritage of all peoples, against its destruction and illicit trafficking.” The “Safeguarding…

The School of African Heritage (École du patrimoine africain - EPA), ICCROM’s partner for cultural heritage conservation in Africa, has embarked on a strategic repositioning project in a bid to respond better to the continent’s conservation…

On 25 November Antonio Almagro Gorbea, ICCROM Council Member from Spain from 1975-1976 and from 1979-1989, received the National Cultural Heritage Conservation and Restoration Prize for 2016.  This prize is entitled in Spanish “Premio Nacional…

With the goal of providing mutual support and collaboration on seismic damage of historic structures, the Architectural Institute of Japan has carried out a survey of buildings damaged in the 2016 Central Italy earthquakes. This survey, which took…

Collection Storage Tips & Tricks is a dynamic resource created by ICCROM and the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) following an international call for images launched in December 2015. In these pages, we showcase the creative and cost-…

The European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science (E-RIHS) is a pan-European project aiming to support research on heritage interpretation, preservation, documentation and management.  The project will provide state-of-the-art tools and…

On 8 November, Prince Charles of the United Kingdom, as part of an official visit to the United Arab Emirates, paid a visit to the ICCROM-ATHAR Regional Conservation Centre in Sharjah.  He was accompanied on this visit by His Highness Dr Sheikh…

ICCROM is pleased to welcome Mr Eisuke Nishikawa, on secondment for the next two years from the Government of Japan. Mr Nishikawa holds a PhD in Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. At the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, he is…