Sustaining Digital Heritage News

As our societies, technologies, and environments evolve, the responsibility of caring for our cultural heritage grows ever more complex. In a rapidly transforming world, how do we balance the preservation of authenticity with the potential for technological innovation? How do we ensure all voices are heard in a digital age? And how can AI serve as a bridge, amplifying human wisdom rather than...

Are you exploring how AI is reshaping the way we experience, preserve and share cultural heritage? Join us to learn, re-imagine, and co-create solutions to keep culture alive and resilient in a rapidly changing world.

Since 2021, the Sustaining Digital Heritage (SDH) programme, has set out with partners AVP and Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (NISV) to understand the preservation and access needs for digital heritage worldwide and to build a self-sustaining network of digital heritage leaders. The broader aim of the programme is to ​​enhance the storytelling potential of digital heritage, as well as...

This gathering provided an opportunity to introduce Member State representatives to ICCROM's ongoing work, focusing on ICCROM's impact and stories of change from around the world. These efforts lay the groundwork for a brighter future for ICCROM and the heritage conservation sector as a whole, as we are preparing for our new Strategic Framework 2026-2031.

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I would like to thank all of you for the outstanding support I received during my six-year term as Director-General. Some moments have proved challenging but always very stimulating, and through the continuous and valuable support of our Member States and partners, the Organization has successfully achieved many goals for the protection and preservation of cultural heritage.

The 33rd session of the ICCROM General Assembly has concluded in Rome. National delegations from our 137 Member States - as well as observers from non-Member States, intergovernmental organizations and other partnering institutions - attended the biennial two-day event hosted at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to assess our progress, set...

This new course was conceived within the framework of the Sustaining Digital Heritage (SDH) programme, ICCROM’s newest initiative developed through a human-centred design process with an international scope. The nine-month Sustainable Digital Heritage course involves multidisciplinary teams from four diverse cultural institutions, the “learning partners” of this initiative, coming from four ICCROM...

Digital is a tool, medium and space for heritage. If you work to promote heritage-based content and create records for posterity, please take our user engagement survey! This questionnaire consists of ten multiple-choice questions and only takes seven minutes to complete.

ICCROM headquarters was a full house in April, May and June – we have been happy hosts of fellows, interns and volunteers from across the globe.