International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property 
Our belief in the potential of heritage to be a source of social and economic opportunity for young people led to the creation of our flagship programme, Youth.Heritage.Africa. In a short time, this programme has brought together hundreds of young professionals from across the African continent for training on best practices in heritage management and conservation while seeking to inspire youth to...
We are excited to have renewed our cooperation with the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea (CHA) to invest in providing capacity building, resources and tools to those tasked with the management and conservation of cultural and natural heritage places.
As we prepare to wrap up a successful first cycle of the Building Capacity for Professional Development (Track 1) course, we open the call for 25 new participants to join us! We are now accepting applications for the second cycle of the 9-month course, which will run from December 2022 to August 2023.
ICCROM and the Swedish National Heritage Board have released a Swedish version of the pioneering online resource, Endangered Heritage: Emergency Evacuation of Heritage Collections, developed in partnership with UNESCO.
The two-week “MOSAIKON Advanced Training on Preventive Conservation Measures for Archaeological Sites with Mosaics: Shelters & Reburial” concluded its activities in the Jordanian capital, Amman, yesterday. The training was organized by the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), through its...
ICCROM’s Valuing Cultural Capital: Accounting for the Hidden Value of Heritage initiative kicked off earlier this month with a workshop, public webinar and survey launch to our Member States.
ICCROM is pleased to announce the launch of the Our Collections Matter (OCM) Toolkit website in Spanish. This long-awaited website translation has become a reality thanks to the generous support of the International Council of Museums-Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC) and the Universidad de los Andes.
Ubatuba, a nature reserve in Brazil; Rosetta, an Egyptian coastal city; Kerman, part of the Lut desert in Iran; and Kasese, on the outer edge of Uganda’s Rwenzori National Park: these five climate hotspots are the final innovation sites of ICCROM’s cascading capacity-development project, “Net Zero: Heritage for Climate Action.”
It is with a heavy heart that we share the news of the passing of Cevat Erder - a former ICCROM Director-General (1981-1988) and a prominent figure in the field.
The Saudi Ministry of Culture completed a specialized training program on the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage. Ten specialists from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the State of Qatar participated in the program, which is part of the Ministry’s ongoing Experts Program - a capacity-building initiative, developed in cooperation with ICCROM, to qualify experts...