WMF Journal
April 17, 2011
Hands Around Wheatley
Posted by John H. Stubbs, Senior Advisor
John Stubbs, WMF’s Vice President for Field Projects, recently traveled to New Orleans to partake in a demonstration against the demolition of Phillis Wheatley Elementary School.
Read moreMarch 31, 2011
Into the Clouds
Posted by Mark Weber, Field Projects Director
Mark Weber, WMF’s Field Projects Director, traveled to Bhutan in July to visit three sites. Two of them, Trashigang Dzong and Drametse Lhakang, are the focus of joint WMF-Prince Claus Fund disaster relief projects, as both were damaged in a recent earthquake. The third site, Phajoding Monastery, was on the 2010 Watch and is the subject of this blog post.
Read moreFebruary 24, 2011
Update on 2010 Watch Site Ujumbe Palace in the Comoros
Posted by Fatima Boyer, Président Collectif du Patrimoine des Comores
The palace of Ujumbe is situated in Mutsamudu, the capital city of Anjouan, the second main island in the Union of Comoros.
Built in the eighteenth century by King Abdallah I, improved and embellished up to the nineteenth century, the palace had been the political centre of the island and had played a major part in the history of the Comoros.
Read moreFebruary 23, 2011
Historic Shaker Site Received Much-Needed Attention Following Watch Listings
Posted by By David Stocks, President of the Shaker Museum and Library
In 2001, the Shaker Museum and Library decided to explore a daunting challenge: instead of pursuing plans to modernize and expand its existing museum campus, fashioned from a former dairy barn complex in the rolling farmland of Old Chatham NY, the trustees voted to undertake a feasibility study to acquire the nearby North family property at Mount Lebanon Shaker Village in New Lebanon, NY, as th
Read moreFebruary 17, 2011
The Watch and its Effects on San Juan Bautista Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, Mexico
Posted by Cecilia Margaona, Fundación Amigos de Cuauhtichan AC
I remember perfectly the moment I was told that the sixteenth-century church of San Juan Bautista Cuauhtinchan was accepted for the World Monuments Watch.
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