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Survey: Needs and challenges for collections display and storage

The anticipated innovations include active and intelligent display cases, storage crates and archival boxes to improve exhibition, storage and transport conditions for museum, archives, libraries and private collections. To provide critical guidance for the project please take this survey and share your experience.

Engaging with future custodians of heritage: Kulturnaut in your neighborhood

Engaging with future custodians of heritage

What is your favourite place in your neighborhood? Where do you usually hang out with your friends after school? Is it a special place only because of your friends, or is it significant for some other reasons? Do you have a cultural heritage spot that is equally important to you? How would you feel if it disappeared?

Workshops on Education and Museum Management, Western Sudan

Workshops on Education and Museum Management, Western Sudan

From 10 February to 21 February 2019, ICCROM-Sharjah and its project partners conducted two workshops on Education and Museum Management in Khartoum for the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM) in Sudan, funded by the British Council’s Cultural Protection Fund in partnership with the Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport.

Completion of training course in Byblos for the conservation of mosaics in situ

Completion of training course in Byblos for the conservation of mosaics in situ

Mosaics heritage is increasingly threatened by modern construction, looting and lack of qualified personnel to carry out much needed conservation and maintenance work. To address this need, a five-week international training course for the conservation of in-situ mosaics was held from 26 March to 26 April 2019, at the ancient site of Byblos, Lebanon. The training event, which included six DGA...

Community Museums in Western Sudan: Workshops

Community Museums in Western Sudan: Workshops

As part of the “Community Museums of Western Sudan” conservation and rehabilitation project for museums in Omdurman, El Obeid and Nyala, ICCROM has conducted a series of workshops entitled “Enhancing the Social and Cultural Role of Community Museums.” The project “Community Museums of Western Sudan” is funded by the British Council's Cultural Protection Fund, in partnership with the Department for...

Going “Zero Waste”: promoting sustainable consumption and production in cultural heritage training

Going “Zero Waste”: promoting sustainable consumption and production in cultural heritage training

This year marks 500 years since the death of Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519), who in response to observing the natural world is believed to have written, “there is no such thing as waste.” The by-product of one industry should become the starting point for another. His words are eerily pertinent for framing an understanding of sustainable consumption and production in the modern world.

ICCROM Explores New EU Disaster Response Partnerships

ICCROM Explores New EU Disaster Response Partnerships

Partners are essential for heritage conservation efforts, as collaboration can leverage various types of capital (e.g., financial, human, social, physical materials) for such activities as fundraising, management, research, education, and outreach. In disaster contexts, partnerships are needed to coordinate response efforts—and the importance of including cultural heritage conservation in response...

Guide to Risk Management now in French

Guide to Risk Management now in French

In today’s world, cultural heritage institutions must strive to be accountable, transparent and participatory, spending resources effectively while balancing needs of the community with those of the future.

Notre-Dame de Paris

Notre-Dame de Paris

ICCROM is shocked and saddened by the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral, and extends its heartfelt sympathy and solidarity with Parisians, the French people and the Catholic Church at this tragic time. It is a terrible loss for the world.

Annual Donor’s meeting for World Heritage Leadership

Annual Donor’s meeting for World Heritage Leadership

On 11 April 2019, the Annual Donor’s Meeting for the World Heritage Leadership Programme took place at the Ministry of Climate and Environment in Oslo, Norway. The Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment hosted the donor’s meeting this year together with ICCROM, IUCN and the Directorate for Cultural Heritage (Riksantikvaren).