29 October. Father Michele Piccirillo played a major role in the excavation of Christian religious sites in Palestine and Jordan, especially at Mount Nebo in Madaba, where he was one of the founders of the Mosaic School.

28 October. Recent torrential rains in Yemen has caused loss of life and severe damage to the rich architectural heritage in Hadhramawt.
The Director-General and Staff of ICCROM extend their deepest condolences to the people and government of Yemen.
Mounir Bouchenaki, Director-General, ICCROM

27 October. The 3rd Regional Course on ‘Conservation and Management of Heritage Sites in the Arab Region’ opened today in Sharjah under the patronage of H.H. Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council of UAE and Ruler of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

22 October. Priorité à la restauration des sites patrimoniaux

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New Director General of ICOM

20 October. Julien Anfruns has been appointed as the new Director General of the International Council of Museums (ICOM).

Activities of the Director General this month

24 October. Germany
19 October. Algeria
10 October. Ravello, Italy
2 October. Taormina, Italy

10 October. ICCROM hosted a partners’ meeting to finalize a strategy for the conservation of mosaics in the Mediterranean region (MOSAIKON).

10 October. The results of this workshop will be presented and discussed in an open debate on 24 October in Herculaneum, Italy.

10 October. A two-week national training activity on 'Conservation and context: Collections and their heritage sites' is being launched in Siem Reap, Kingdom of Cambodia.

8 October. The preservation of sound and image collections of the early twentieth century was the focus of a meeting in the National Museum Institute, New Delhi.

8 October. Aleksandra Dzikic Nikolic, from Serbia, has taken up a two and a half months internship in ICCROM.

27 October. Online bookshop in India
22 October. Training: structural rehabilitation, Portugal
22 October. Training: Cultural Resource Management Program, Canada
22 October. Training: AIC, United States
21 October. Event: heritage, development and tourism, Mexico
20 October. Event: French Blue Shield Committee
16 October. Film: Les dieux sont à vendre
15 October. Job: Rathgen Research Laboratory, Germany
15 October. Internet:ICOMOS Peru - new blog
15 October. e-journal: CeROArt N. 2
13 October. Publication: Seeing with Young Eyes, UNESCO
13 October. Grant: Fondation Marc de Montalembert
10 October. Internet: ICOM's Disaster Relief For Museum task force
9 October. Jobs: Cultural Heritage Project (CHP), Iraq
8 October. Training:Society of American Archivists
8 October. Training: Economics and cultural heritage, Italy
8 October. e-Pub: INTI-Celulosa, Argentina
8 octobre. e-Pub: Digitization guidelines
3 October. Training: Book conservation, Italy
2 October. Event: International Heritage Show, Paris
1 October. Publication: Visual Resources
1 October. Internet : AAAV - Anagrafe Archivi AudioVisivi
1 October. Events: Conservation events this month.

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6 October. The establishment of a Training Institute for Architectural Conservation in Jerusalem took a step closer to fruition today with the start of a pilot course in Jerusalem on Architectural Conservation.

22 September. CollAsia 2010 - Buildings: Environments for Collections
8 September. ARIS 2009, Rome, Italy