International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property
The world is passing through an unprecedented crisis, with the COVID-19 pandemic impacting every aspect of our lives. While we make all efforts to come out of this crisis better prepared for such situations in the future, it has also pushed to look deeper into the underlying causes. It is a known fact that climate change has significantly altered the environment and behaviour of living beings. At...
ICCROM, through its Regional Office in Sharjah, has launched a new initiative titled “MEDINA”. It will address the protection of historic cities, support the enhancement of urban heritage management in the Arab region, and promote the role of cultural heritage in sustainable development.
ICCROM is proud to announce the release of the publication, Endangered Heritage: Emergency Evacuation of Heritage Collections in Spanish and in Turkish. Built upon years of experience and real-life situations, Endangered Heritage offers a field-tested, simple workflow for the emergency evacuation of valuable objects.
Over the last ten years, the conservation of mosaic heritage has been the focus of the MOSAIKON initiative led by four international organizations: ICCROM, the Getty Foundation, the Getty Conservation Institute and the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics (ICCM). Focused on professional and technical training, research, conferences, publications and networking, MOSAIKON has...
Cultural heritage narrates our human story. Imagine what our lives would be like without it: our cities without museums and monuments, our families without stories and old photographs. Our heritage is a defining feature of our existence, our sameness and our differences. So why then is it often so difficult to persuade decision-makers that it deserves consideration? When budgets are being...