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Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Under the Patronage of HH Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Sharjah, and in collaboration with UCL-Qatar, a one-week introductory…

As we move into the seventh week of the International Course on Stone Conservation, participants are spending more time together, extending their knowledge and strengthening new friendships. They are currently travelling through Italy,…

Stefano De Caro, Director-General of ICCROM met with His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah at the Ruler’s Office. The two parties exchanged views on multiple issues regarding ICCROM’…

As the news of a massive earthquake in Nepal broke out, ICCROM, ICOMOS-ICORP and their combined network of heritage professionals joined forces to produce the Kathmandu Cultural Emergency Crowdmap to gather on-the-ground reports on damaged…

Course Announcement Promoting People-Centred Approaches: Engaging Communities in the Conservation of Nature and Culture Partners: ICCROM and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre Background Engaging communities in the conservation process is…

Course on First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis comes to a close on 30 April in Amsterdam, Netherlands A group of 20 cultural heritage professionals – archaeologists, archivists, and architects – arrived on the scene to assess the damage…

I was both privileged and deeply saddened to spend time with Ron, just before his tragic death on 28 April 2015. We were both on a World Heritage Reactive Monitoring Mission, in the city of Lhasa in China. His sudden departure was a shocking…

A series of devastating earthquakes have struck Nepal over the weekend, causing loss of more than 7000 lives. The initial 7.8 magnitude quake, along with aftershocks as high as 6.7 magnitude, caused destruction and severe damage to the historic…

The International Expert Meeting, 11-17 March 2015, in Tokyo and Sendai, Japan The 3rd United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction ICCROM, in cooperation with UNESCO, the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan (ACA) and the…

Place: Rome, Italy Background ICCROM is pleased to announce the sixth training course on Conservation of Built Heritage in Rome. ICCROM has been a pioneer in organizing courses in heritage conservation since 1965 including the Architectural…

Cultural Heritage Protection in the Asia – Pacific Region 2015: Preservation and Restoration of wooden structures Place: Cultural Heritage Protection Cooperation Office, Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (Nara Pref. Nara Branch Office,…

Where: Chengdu, China Partners: State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH), China Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage (CACH) ICCROM Why While the number of collections and museums are growing exponentially, an ICCROM  survey (…

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 the region using the LATAM network. Would you like to…

Another stone course? What’s new? What’s different? For the nineteenth time since 1976 a group of mid-career professionals from 20 different countries are gathering for the International Course on Stone Conservation co-organized by ICCROM in…

This guidance note begins with a brief discussion on people-centred approaches to heritage conservation. This is a discussion that has been taking place for some time but involving community members still remains a real challenge at many heritage…

From 24 to 27 March, 12 participants from six museums across the province of Ontario joined forces with the staff of the Brant Museum and Archives to re-organize an archival storage area comprising 30,000 items. This was accomplished in just…

Tenth International Training Course (ITC) on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 12 – 28 September 2015, Kyoto, Kobe and Tohoku area, Japan Application deadline: 22 April 2015 Organized by the Institute of Disaster Mitigation for…

Is it possible to save cultural heritage from the intentional targeting that we are witnessing in Syria and Iraq? In the aftermath of large-scale natural disasters such as Cyclone Pam, how can cultural heritage be recovered quickly and…

Special edition LATAM – International Course on Stone Conservation: Observation, Documentation and Diagnosis Organizers Coordinación Nacional de Conservación del  Patrimonio Cultural (CNCPC-INAH), Mexico ICCROM Venues Archaeological…

The Ecole du Patrimoine Africain (EPA), jointly established by ICCROM and the University of Abomey-Calavi in Porto Novo, has enjoyed a positive start to 2015. On 19 January it welcomed its newest Director, Mr Samuel Kidiba, and on 31 January, it…

What?  As a precursor to the two day SOIMA 2015 international conference, ICCROM and its partners are pleased to announce a five-day intensive workshop on Sustaining Sound and Image Collections. The workshop is tailored to address the…

ICCROM shares and supports the strong statement of UNESCO’s Director-General, Dr Irina Bokova, condemning the destruction of archaeological heritage as videotaped at the Mosul Museum and at the site of the Nergal Gate by ISIL militants.…

The CollAsia international course on Handling, Packing and Moving Collections came to a close in Kuching, Malaysia. Organized by ICCROM and the Sarawak Museum Department, with the support of the Korean Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA),…

A two-week specialist workshop on “Building National Capacities for Managing Risks to Cultural Heritage in Case of Emergency” concluded in Cairo, Egypt, on 29 January 2015. The workshop was co-organized by ICCROM through its recently-…

The ICCROM community is shocked and saddened by news of the weekend blaze that consumed an estimated 1 million historic titles belonging to the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION) in Moscow, the principal Russian…