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Since 1991, Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust (KVPT), based in New York City, has restored and preserved Nepal's magnificent cultural architectural treasures for Nepali's and the international community. WMF has worked with KVPT over the last ten years to produce a multiphase preservation plan for the Patan Royal Palace Complex.

World Monuments Fund and The Museum of Modern Art presented a panel discussion on May 5 to a packed theater at MoMA that explored the preservation challenges—including changing economies, modernization, and development—being faced by modern buildings and sites in Latin America today.

WMF’s collaboration with the Palace Museum for the conservation of the Qianlong Garden has included a series of site visits to review the variety of ways in which historic sites provide visitor access and interpretation plans for spaces that must, by necessity, have only limited public access. In April 2015, a delegation of representatives from WMF and the Palace Museum visited Hampton Court Palace.

In April 2015, World Monuments Fund led a delegation of representatives from the Palace Museum, China, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on a visit to Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, approximately ten miles down the River Thames from London’s center, to help inform the Palace Museum’s development of a plan for a visitor management system for the Qianlong Garden in the Forbidden City.