International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property

ICCROM Past Lecture Series

Dialogue on “Applying resilience thinking to heritage places: from theory to practice”

Resilience is defined as the capacity of a system to deal with change and continue to develop. But what does this actually mean and why should we, as heritage professionals, be concerned with it? How can we apply it for heritage places? This dialogue will take you through a set of principles that...

WSCM (Western Sudan Community Museums): Post-conflict Recovery of Living Cultural Heritage

Community Museums provide tangible evidence of Sudan's rich history and cultural diversity and point the way to its cultural future. This webinar presents the WSCM project dedicated to supporting the protection, post-conflict recovery, and restoration of three Community Museums in Western Sudan...

Heritage and Pandemics: My museum is on fire!

Every year, significant cultural heritage resources, in different parts of the world, continue to be vulnerable to fire risk. Often perceived as a rare risk, large fires are far more frequent if we consider the number of incidents at a national or international level. The ongoing pandemic and...

Impact Assessment for World Heritage II - steps and processes

This webinar will take you through the principles and processes that you need to be aware of when conducting impact assessments. Especially when conducting an impact assessment for World Heritage, it is important to base the assessment on the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV), and all other values...

ICCROM-UNESCO webinar on Museums after the Pandemic

COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the international museum community and confronted it with critical questions and decisions about the future of our museums. In order to successfully overcome ongoing and future challenges in the post-COVID-19 world, it will be crucial for museums to adapt...

Impact Assessment for World Heritage I- what are the main things you need to know

Impact assessment is an approach and methodology that can promote better evidence-based decision-making in advance of planning for change at or near World Heritage properties. The three Advisory Bodies (ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN) have been collaborating, in partnership with the UNESCO World Heritage...

Retos y oportunidades para el patrimonio cultural en tiempos de COVID

Como parte de la serie de conferencias del ICCROM[1]: Voces Globales: Patrimonio y Pandemias, llevada a cabo dentro el marco de la iniciativa Patrimonio en Tiempos de COVID[2], un último seminario virtual en español se centrará en las experiencias vividas en varios países latinoamericanos...

Heritage and Sustainability in Post COVID-19 World - Building Back Better

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to confront critical questions and decisions concerning our future and the role of cultural heritage in it. Looking ahead, the post COVID-19 phase provides an opportunity to ‘build back better’ by rethinking and further strengthening the role of heritage in...

Heritage and Pandemics: Traditional Knowledge for Building Resilience

COVID-19 is not the first pandemic in history, demonstrating that humanity is resilient enough to survive health crises, among other natural and/or human-induced hazards on a global scale. The examples of Egypt, Guatemala and Nigeria will be used to address the question of how traditional knowledge...

Heritage and Wellbeing: What Constitutes a Good Life?

This webinar will address the issue of well-being. With a panel of speakers drawn from economics, health, sociology and heritage conservation, we will explore what well-being is, why it’s important, and how through reframing the ways in which heritage is recognised, used and cared for in terms of...