International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property
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On 27 February 2023, our Director-General Webber Ndoro had the honour of meeting the President and CEO of Parks Canada, Ron Hallman, during a visit to Ottawa. Also present was Patricia Kell, Executive Director of Cultural Heritage at Parks Canada and member of the ICCROM Council.
This blog post, authored by Rohit Jigyasu, ICCROM Project Manager, Urban Heritage, Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management, explains the importance of integrating Indigenous and traditional knowledge into Diaster Risk Reduction (DRR) plans.
The Arab region is home to diverse cultural heritage with many themes to consider. This complexity called for a continuation of the ICCROM Arab forum for Cultural Heritage, the second edition of which centred on the theme of “authenticity, community and heritage conservation.” The forum’s proceedings (in Arabic) are now available for free digital download.
On 21 February, professor Lyette Fortin and her architecture and conservation students from Carleton University, Canada, visited us at ICCROM headquarters. Professor Fortin spent several months at ICCROM in 1986, participating in one of our foundational courses, the Architectural Conservation Course.
The Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network (BCIN) – one of the most important tools for retrieving bibliographic information on cultural heritage conservation – is now available in French and Spanish.
On 16 February 2023, our Director-General Webber Ndoro welcomed representatives of the Stati Generali del Patrimonio Italiano – President Prof. Ivan Drogo Inglese and General Counsel Carlo Magrassi – to ICCROM headquarters. Also present was Dr Iyad Hafez from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Embassy to Italy.
Do you work with collections or in a collections-based institution such as a museum, archive or library? Would you like to unlock the full potential of these collections to make concrete contributions to sustainable development? Let us help you turn your aspirations into reality using the Our Collections Matter Toolkit!
On 31 January, a culture-focused “Heritage Hub” was officially launched to make cultural heritage a source of sustainable economic and social benefit for Rwanda’s youth.
While on an ALIPH-ICOM teaching mission in Ouagadougou to teach museum documentation and storage, Mr Gaël de Guichen, Special Advisor to the Director-General of ICCROM, was decorated with the Order of the Stallion, the highest distinction in Burkina Faso.