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The World in Florence  Festival is a 5 year-long project (2021-2025) that aims at increasing worldwide the involvement of higher educational institutions and public administration committed to raising awareness, interpreting and communicating…

  The recent culmination of another significant milestone in the UNESCO-ICCROM Heritage Recovery Programme in Mosul has been marked by the graduation of 23 young architects and civil engineers from the programme's cycle focused on professional…

ICCROM Sharjah, alongside the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH) and the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme of the University of Cambridge, partnered with the International Forum Bosnia (IFB) in organizing the 18th International Summer…

The Fellowship Programme is a valuable part of the life of ICCROM. Its purpose is to bring fresh perspectives, facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas and stimulate new avenues of research that will enrich the field of heritage conservation.…

This blog post was authored by Richard Martin V. Katipunan, ICCROM, Conservation of Built Heritage participant from the Philippines. For the past couple of months, we have hosted participants from 18 countries at our headquarters in Rome for…

National Capacity Building Course for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia  Organizers: Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia represented through its Heritage Commission, Saudi National Committee for Education, Culture and Science…

From 1–5 August 2023, ICCROM’s flagship programme First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR), in partnership with the US Department of State Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation, the Ministry of Culture and…

The event, in continuity with its predecessors and with the II International Meeting "Science for Peace," New Disciples of Knowledge: the Scientific Method in the Changing Ages, intends to enter with greater specificity into the life of the…

The Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH) and the ICCROM-IUCN World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme are looking for 20 World Heritage site managers and practitioners to join a regional capacity-building workshop on Impact Assessment…

ICCROM is deeply saddened by the loss of lives and extensive damage, including to natural and cultural heritage, resulting from the catastrophic wildfires currently ongoing in many parts of the world.  Our Director-General and staff wish to…

We are seeking 10 international participants to join the international capacity building course on “Improving Management Effectiveness of World Heritage Properties” that will be held in English in Beijing, China, from 6 to 17 November 2023. The…

In collaboration with the National Museums of Kenya and with financial contributions from the British Council Cultural Protection Fund, ICCROM is engaged in a community-centred project focused on the long-term preservation of fossil footprints that…

The new Special Issue of the Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development (JCHMSD) focuses on the results of the Heritage Place Lab initiative of the ICCROM-IUCN World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme. Taking evidence from…

ICCROM Director-General Webber Ndoro was honoured to welcome H.E. Ambassador of India Dr Neena Malhotra, at ICCROM headquarters on 7 August 2023. The Ambassador was accompanied by the Second Secretary from the cultural section, Mr Shambhu Amitabh.…

Special attention will be given to Ibero-America and to the dissemination and organization of activities in Spanish.  Photo credit: Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España The Ministry of Culture and Sport of Spain (Ministerio de…

Tomb Chamber of the Humor Monastery, Romania, 1972 The Humor Monastery is one of the best-preserved of the eight Painted Churches of Moldavia – a World Heritage site located in Romania. These churches were built between the 15th and 16th…

It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of our colleague Rosalia Varoli-Piazza.  When Rosalia joined the ICCROM team in 2002, thanks to an agreement with the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, she already…

Digital is a tool, medium and space for heritage. If you work to promote heritage-based content and create records for posterity, please take our user engagement survey! This questionnaire consists of ten multiple-choice questions and only takes…

From 26 to 30 July 2023, UNESCO, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, ICCROM and ICOMOS, will train 25 heritage professionals, including World Heritage site managers, from eight at-risk regions across…

As an Advisory Body to the World Heritage Convention, ICCROM joins UNESCO and its sister Advisory Body ICOMOS in condemning the recent attacks on the World Heritage properties and buffer zones of “The Historic Centre of Odesa” including the…

On 20 July 2023, ICCROM Director-General Webber Ndoro was in the Republic of Korea for the joint ICCROM and NRICH international symposium, "World Archaeology: Ancient Cities and Royal Capitals." The symposium was the first outcome of the MoU signed…

Estimated costs for safeguarding these sites and providing emergency response is approximately 11 million USD.*  From 6 to 10 July 2023, ICCROM – in partnership with UNESCO Paris, UNESCO Cairo and UNESCO Khartoum, and in close collaboration…

On 14 July 2023, we were honoured to officially receive a generous donation of RE-ORG materials to the ICCROM Archives. Special Advisor to the Director-General and a precursor of the RE-ORG Method, Gaël de Guichen, donated more than a decade’s…

Chief organizer: Kizhi Open Air Museum Partners: ICCROM Petrozavodsk State University and UNESCO Chair of Wooden Architecture Research and Preservation Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Karelia Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation…

Archaeologists from world capitals and cities gather in Seoul to discuss the coexistence of heritage conservation and community livelihoods. The National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage (NRICH, headed by Director General Kim Yeon-soo) of the…