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ICCROM is very pleased to announce the launch of the Mora Samples Collection catalogue as an open access research resource. The Mora samples collection is an extraordinary scientific scholarly resource comprising over 1 200 material samples that bears witness to the complexity and diversity of wall painting as a medium for cultural expression across different civilizations and time periods.

Catherine Antomarchi was awarded the prestigious ICOM-CC medal for her contribution to the conservation of cultural property, at the nineteenth ICOM-CC Virtual Triennial Conference hosted in Beijing in May 2021. For more than 35 years, until her departure in 2019, Catherine was a pivotal member of the ICCROM team, spearheading the development and delivery of innovative courses and educational...

ICCROM, IUCN, ICOMOS and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre are collaborating together to produce the upcoming Guidance for World Heritage Impact Assessment. We are currently working on finalizing the document and improving the diagrams and tools based on the last round of feedback received. We are planning to release the guidance in the third quarter of 2021. Please stay tuned for further updates!

Students Eleonora Sermoneta and Amber Bhatty share their insights into the challenges and priorities associated with learning about heritage conservation during a global pandemic.

Earlier this year, ICCROM participated in a series of international webinars organized by the Italian Ministry of Culture and introduced by the culture minister Dario Franceschini, under Italy’s Presidency of the G20. The webinars were a precursor to the upcoming G20 Culture Ministerial meetings in Rome on 20 and 30 July, ahead of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in October.

Want to learn how to use the traditional knowledge held by your local community to reduce disaster risk? With the aim of breaking language barriers and empowering communities, ICCROM is pleased to announce that its digital publication inSIGHT, is now available in Arabic, French, Georgian and Spanish!

Today is International Museum Day, which in 2021 invites us to “reimagine” cultural institutions as a leading force for post-pandemic recovery and change. It is an occasion to share big ideas and reflect on how our immediate actions can help shape the world now and into the future.

Born on 23 February 1933, Ingmar studied in Stockholm, where he graduated in Civil Engineering from the Higher Technical Institution, and in Architecture from the Royal institute of Technology. In the 1960s and 1970s he established the architectural firm Restaureringsteknik AB, Stockholm, which specialised in the conservation of protected historic buildings, including many state-owned mediaeval...

Site managers of World Heritage sites from around the world are invited to this year’s World Heritage Site Managers Forum (WHSMF), held in the occasion of the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee meeting.

Polish chemist and conservator of monuments, professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń he was born and spent his childhood in Warsaw. Then he was sent to forced labor in Germany. After returning to his country he moved to Gdynia then to Toruń where he studied chemistry