ICCROM Award

The ICCROM Award is given to individuals who have contributed significantly to ICCROM’s development, and/or who have special merit in the field of conservation, protection and restoration of cultural heritage. The Council members nominate and vote for one winner of the Award in each biennium. By tradition, and following the Council’s decisions, the Award is presented on the occasion of ICCROM’s General Assembly. It consists of a small bronze sculpture called “Conservation” by the sculptor Peter Rockwell which is presented to the winner by the Director-General, accompanied by an official laudatio (text in recognition of merit) read by the person who has nominated the winner, or by a person appointed by the Director-General.

The ICCROM Award was granted for the first time in 1979. That year an exception was made and eleven persons received it, as a sign of gratitude for their efforts in the creation and development of ICCROM during its first 20 years of existence.

ICCROM Award recipients (by year):

1979 (Laudationes – Original texts - French)

Cesare Brandi
Maurice Chehab
Paul Coremans
Hiroshi Daifuku
Guglielmo De Angelis d’Ossat
Piero Gazzola
Frédéric Gysin
Stanislas Lorentz
Harold J. Plenderleith
Gianfranco Pompei
Arthur Van Schendel

1981

Raymond Lemaire
Giovanni Massari
Paul Philippot
Gertrude Tripp

1983

Hans Foramitti
Sir Norman Reid

1984

Italo C. Angle
Laura Mora
Paolo Mora
Jean Taralon
Johannes Taubert

1986

Tomokichi Iwasaki
Garry Thomson

1988

Albert France-Lanord
Bruno Mühlethaler

1990

Vasile Dragut
Paul Perrot
Giorgio Torraca

1992

Johan Lodewijks

1993

Giovanni Urbani
Om Prakash Agrawal

1995

Gräfin Agnes Ballestrem
Sir Bernard Feilden

1997

Cevat Erder
Charles Gruchy

2000

Mounir Bouchenaki
Jukka Jokilehto

2001

Gaël de Guichen
Agnes Timar-Balazsy

2003

Colin Pearson

2005

Abdel-Aziz Daoulatli

2007

Katsuhiko Masuda

2009

Marisa Laurenzi Tabasso
Nils Marstein

2011

Herb Stovel

2013

Zhou Lu

2015

Webber Ndoro

2017

Giovanni Carbonara

2019