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On the occasion of Russia Day on 12 June, a national holiday in the Russian Federation that commemorates the adoption of the Russian constitution in 1990, ICCROM wishes to congratulate an important Member State in ICCROM's worldwide community…

An ICCROM-led workshop has marked the beginning of a consultation campaign in the Lake Ohrid region, involving a local team of volunteers from both the Albanian and Macedonian sides. This campaign supports the EU-UNESCO project, “Towards…

Recent decades have witnessed a fundamental change in social values throughout the world, and this in turn has affected the ways in which we think about and care for cultural heritage. Increasingly, heritage professionals are challenged to…

Organizers Ho Chi Minh City University of Culture ICCROM With the support of CHA – Korean Cultural Heritage Administration   Why Photographic and Archival Collections cover historical, artistic and identity-building values…

  Course on Management and Monitoring of World Heritage Sites with special reference to China   ORGANIZERS   SACH - State Administration of Cultural Heritage, China ICM - INSTITUTO CULTURAL do Governo da R.A.E de Macao SAR,…

  #CultureCannotWait - First Aid for Cultural Heritage training in the Netherlands   Press Release 17 May 2018 Amsterdam, Netherlands   First Aid for Cultural Heritage: International training in the Netherlands to prepare for…

  #CultureCannotWait - First Aid for Cultural Heritage training in the Netherlands   Press Release 17 May 2018 Amsterdam, Netherlands   First Aid for Cultural Heritage: International training in the Netherlands to prepare for…

  World Heritage Leadership Capacity Building course for Nordic-Baltic experts   Partners: IUCN, Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment, in collaboration with ICOMOS and UNESCO World Heritage Centre   Call for Participants…

Image credit - Tasnim News via Wikimedia Commons Mosul’s iconic Al Nouri mosque and Al Hadba minaret will be reconstructed by a team involving ICCROM and UNESCO, in a five-year project funded by the United Arab Emirates. This news was…

  Organizers Museu de Lisboa (Museum of Lisbon) ICCROM Partners Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, Portugal   WHY While the number of collections and museums are growing exponentially, a 2010 ICCROM survey indicated that 60…

ICCROM is participating in an international conference entitled The challenges of World Heritage recovery: international conference on reconstruction, to be held in the Royal Castle in Warsaw on 6 – 8 May 2018. The conference is organized by…

    Organizers World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for the Asia and the Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO, Shanghai Centre (WHITRAP, Shanghai) International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and…

On 17 April,  Stefanie Altman-Winans, Deputy Director in the Office of Public Affairs, Planning, and Coordination, United States Department of State in Washington DC, visited ICCROM together with Heather Eaton and Ann Wise of USUN Rome.…

Group Training Course for Young Professionals on Cultural Heritage Protection in the Asia-Pacific Region 2018 1. Organizers This course is jointly organized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan (Bunkacho); Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre…

Earthquakes are disruptive events that too often have devastating consequences. They leave their marks on landscapes and buildings, influence the lives of those who experience them, and can be traumatic events for those same people. Yet what…

20th International Course on Stone Conservation – SC17   As the 20th International Stone Course (SC17) moves physically from Mexico City to Campeche Province in the south of the country, so it moves from the more theoretical phase…

CultureSummit Abu Dhabi 2018, held from 8 – 12 April, is a high-level international summit bringing together leaders from the worlds of government, arts, media and technology to collaborate and address in concrete ways the role culture can…

On 11 April, the United Kingdom's Minister of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), HE Michael Ellis, visited the ICCROM-Sharjah Office in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. He and his delegation were welcomed by Dr Webber Ndoro,…

The royal collections of Madagascar are back in the spotlight, thanks to a preventive conservation project financed by the Government of Japan.   Eighty percent of Madagascar’s royal palace collections were destroyed by a…

On 6 April, a group of students from Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, currently studying at the International Academy of Rome, visited ICCROM.  They were led by Dr Hicran Topcu, past ICCROM Fellow. They were received by Paul Arenson,…

In March 2018, ICCROM conducted an online survey, distributed to all former CollAsia participants from 2003 to 2017. The objective was to reflect on the impact of CollAsia courses on participants and theirs institutions, and to come up with an…

The International Course on Stone Conservation, implemented by ICCROM in collaboration with Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), has just been inaugurated in Mexico City. It was due to have taken place in 2017, but due to the…

World Heritage Site managers from across the globe are invited to participate in this year’s Forum, aimed at continuing to empower World Heritage Site Managers on the international stage.

We are pleased to announce the call for abstract for the XVI International Forum ‘Le Vie dei Mercanti’, titled ‘WORLD HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE. ‘Representation, Restoration, Redesign, Resilience’ to be held in Naples and Capri (Italy) on June from…

This symposium, based on first-hand regional and international experiences, is organized in partnership with ICCROM through its ICCROM-ATHAR Regional Conservation Centre in the United Arab Emirates.  It provides an opportunity for participants…