World Monuments Fund’s preservation work helps bring greater recognition of historic sites around the world and contributes tangible benefits to the communities that care for them. Each time we collaborate with local colleagues and engage the people who live near a site, we create a beneficial chain reaction. Our conservation projects return treasured places to use and enjoyment by local residents and visitors. Preservation often generates new jobs and educational opportunities. The conclusion of the conservation work is really just the beginning of a new chapter in the life of the site. Conservation activities leverage new appreciation, inspiration, and investment, and provide opportunities for sustainable tourism and other engines of economic development.
Celebrating the inauguration of the Visitors Center at Orongo, Easter Island, 2011
A group celebrates in Biet Mariam, one of the rock-hewn churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia, 2008
Trainee stonemasons from the Building Crafts College work on the East Pavilion at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, 2010
Columbia University graduate students document the Katholikon of Moni Perivolis in Lesvos, Greece, 2011
WMF and INP Conservation team at Maison de la Chasse, Bulla Regia, Tunisia, 2010
Conservator at work at Loropeni ruins, Burkina Faso, 2010
Conservation of the baroque wall paintings at Banska Stiavnica Calvary Complex, Slovakia, 2009
A Gion Festival scene in the Funeboko-cho community in Kyoto, Japan, traditional machiya on right, 2008
Garuda #70 during conservation at Preah Khan, Angkor, Cambodia, 2011
Garuda #70 post-conservation, 2011
Local artisan plasters the Arou Temple in Bandiagara, Mali, 2009
Conservation team at Huaca de la Luna outside Trujillo, Peru, 2010
Heritage Day celebration at San Pedro Apostol de Andahuaylillas, Peru, 2011
The Abin ceremony in front of Bafut Palace, Cameroon, 2007
