World Heritage Leadership Programme meeting
On 11 and 12 March, the World Heritage Leadership Programme held a meeting at ICCROM to discuss the content coordination of its planned integrated heritage management web platform.
International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property News
Workshop on Post-Crisis Recovery of Historic Cities in the Arab Region
ICCROM-Sharjah has organized a workshop on post -crisis recovery of historic cities in the Arab Region, which took place on 24 – 28 February 2019 in Sharjah, UAE. The event brought together specialists from international organizations such as the World Bank, UNESCO, ICOMOS, ICCROM, UN HABITAT, as well as practitioners and academics from the fields of cultural heritage, social and economic...
Enhancing World Heritage Management Skills, Lebanon
In partnership with UNESCO Beirut and the Directorate General of Antiquities (DGA) in Lebanon, ICCROM-Sharjah held a training workshop on “Enhancing World Heritage Management Skills for Heritage Professionals” in Beirut, Lebanon, 8 – 11 February 2019. The workshop’s target audience were site managers, archaeologists and architects working for the DGA in Lebanon.
Kevin Kettle (1959-2019)
It is with deep sorrow that ICCROM has received the news of the death of our friend and colleague Kevin Kettle. We had the privilege to work with him during several years of collaboration in the design and implementation of joint activities organised with the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization - Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts (SEAMEO-SPAFA) in Bangkok, Thailand...
Visit: Permanent Representative of Switzerland to FAO, IFAD, and WFP
On 6 February H.E. François Pythoud, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to FAO, IFAD, and WFP, visited ICCROM.
Visit: British School at Rome
On 1 February, the Director of the British School at Rome, Prof Stephen Milner, visited ICCROM together with two BSR Assistant Directors, Peter Campbell and Martina Caruso, and Archaeology Officer Stephen Kay.
Maritime, Coastal and Underwater Cultural Heritage
ICCROM’s Regional Conservation Centre in Sharjah, in partnership with UNESCO and the New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), is organizing a four-day Regional Workshop on the Protection and Management of the Maritime, Coastal and Underwater Cultural Heritage, from 28 to 31 January 2019.
Visit: Delegation from Montenegro
On 31 January, a delegation from Montenegro visited ICCROM, composed of H.E. Aleksandar Bogdanović, Minister of Culture; H.E. Sanja Vlahović, Ambassador of Montenegro to the Republic of Italy; Dražen Blažić, State Secretary of the Ministry of Culture; Anastazija Miranović, Director of the National Museum of Montenegro; and Maja Simonović, Second Secretary in the Embassy of Montenegro.
CollAsia Focus in 2018: Conserving Photographic and Archival Collections
The CollAsia international course on “Conserving Photographic and Archival Collections” was successfully held in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, from 22 November to 15 December 2018. CollAsia is a training partnership between ICCROM and the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea (CHA) to improve the conservation and use of heritage collections in Southeast Asia. Every year, a course is organized in...
How can we involve African youth in heritage?
Fifteen professionals from 15 institutions met to discuss how best to design an impactful programme to support youth and its engagement in heritage in the African region. The Africa Expert Meeting took inspiration from the United Nation’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and particularly from the development goals for sustainable cities and communities, gender equality, decent work and...