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On 20 October, sculptor Peter Rockwell presented to ICCROM the gypsum preparatory study he used to create the bronze portrait bust of ICCROM’s founding director Dr Harold J Plenderleith.
Dr Plenderleith, who had directed the British Museum’s museum…
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The photographer and writer Enikö Nagy, who has criss-crossed a remote region of Sudan in search of local images and spoken words, sees herself as a chronicler of the unique beauty of Sudan’s rich cultural heritage. “This is not a picture book in…
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ICCROM is pleased to announce the addition of a new web resource to its website.
“Heritage Science” is a data-focused and knowledge-sharing resource dedicated to the cross disciplinary field of heritage science, with a particular orientation…
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People-Centred Approaches to the Conservation of Culture and Nature (PCA16) course opens in Tirana, Albania
Albania’s Ministry of Culture welcomed 20 participants from seven southeast Europe countries who are meeting for the first time to discuss…
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COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT
Dates: 11 – 30 September 2017 (arrival date 10 September, departure date 1 October)
Location: Kizhi Island (11 days) and Petrozavodsk (10 days), Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation
Chief organizer:
Kizhi Open Air Museum…
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Over 200 museum professionals from all over the world have gathered at the Royal Museums of Art and History (KMKG-MRAH) in Brussels, Belgium to discuss the practicalities of reorganizing museum storage and the potentially meaningful outcomes this…
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Over 200 museum professionals from all over the world have gathered at the Royal Museums of Art and History (KMKG-MRAH) in Brussels, Belgium to discuss the practicalities of reorganizing museum storage and the potentially meaningful outcomes…
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Organizers:
Getty Conservation Institute, United States
Direction du Patrimoine Culturel, Ministry of Culture, Morocco
MOSAIKON programme partners:
ICCROM
International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics (ICCM)
Getty Conservation…
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MOSAIKON COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT
Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites with Mosaics: A Regional Training Course
Dates: 2-19 May 2017
Place: Volubilis, Morocco
Organizers:
Getty Conservation Institute, United States
Direction du…
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As rescue teams wind up their efforts to find survivors of a devastating 6.2 earthquake that shook central Italy last month with loss of 296 lives, another concern emerges – the fate of hundreds of historic buildings destroyed or damaged in the…
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A violent 6.8 earthquake hit central Myanmar on 24 August 2016, killing at least four people and damaging the archaeological site of Bagan. Once the capital city of the historical Pagan Kingdom, the site of Bagan contains more than 2500…
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A series of devastating earthquakes struck Central Italy on 24 August 2016, causing loss of 296 lives. The initial 6.2 and 5.5 magnitude quakes, along with aftershocks as high as 4.5 magnitude, caused…
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ICCROM has signed a six-year partnership project – World Heritage Leadership – with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawaii, United States. Made possible with generous…
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ICCROM has signed a six-year partnership project – World Heritage Leadership – with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawaii, United States. Made possible with generous…
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The 2016 edition of the JPC-Japanese Paper Conservation course was inaugurated in Tokyo on 29 August. This highly specialised three-week event will be held from 29 August – 16 September 2016.
The course has been organised once a year since…
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Following the earthquakes that struck the ancient mountain towns and villages of Lazio, Umbria and Marche in Central Italy and the historic site of Bagan in Myanmar on 24 August, the Director-General and staff of ICCROM wish to extend their…
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The Library has recently carried out a series of innovations that provide a much wider range of research resources in heritage conservation. Some resources are accessible to our Rome-based Library visitors, while others are available to all…
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On 12 July 2016 in Istanbul, a framework agreement was signed between ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property) through its ICCROM-ATHAR Regional Conservation Centre in Sharjah, and…
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On 27 July, the Director-General received the visit of Ryohei Miyata, Commissioner for cultural affairs, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Rio Higuchi, Senior Specialist for the International Cooperation on Cultural Properties, Fine arts Division…
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Visit coincides with first-time exhibit in Italy, “Masterworks of Japanese Buddhist Sculpture”
Stefano De Caro, ICCROM’s Director-General, has received the visit of Mr Ryohei Miyata, Commissioner for Cultural Affairs at the Japanese Ministry of…
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The economic losses from disasters are now reaching an average of US$250 to US$300 billion each year, according to the Global Assessment Report of 2015 – a resource for analyzing and understanding disaster risk globally, today and in the future.…
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