In January 2022, WMF announced funding to support emergency response and restoration efforts in the Peruvian town of La Jalca Grande, struck by a 7.5-magnitude earthquake.
Fourah Bay College in Freetown became a magnet for English-speaking Africans on the West Coast and remained the only European-style university in western Africa for more than a century.
The eleventh-century Tibetan translator of Buddhist texts, Rinchen Tsangpo, who brought Buddhism to the Western Himalaya, is credited with founding 108 temples in the region.
In 2019, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Albania’s coast. In its wake, World Monuments Fund (WMF) joined a consortium to advise on the design and implementation of emergency stabilization measures for affected structures.
Intended to improve the management of seven World Heritage Sites across Tunisia, the Tunisia Site Management Planning Training program is also designed to facilitate the preparation of future World Heritage nominations.
Located in the heart of Lima, the Parque de la Exposición was built in the mid-nineteenth-century Guano era and is home to two major museums: the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) and the Museo Metropolitano de Lima.
The Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) is housed in the historic Palacio de la Exposición in Lima, built to host the Lima National Exhibition of 1872 and one of the earliest iron-built masterpieces of Peru.
The Mosul Museum Rehabilitation Project aims to rehabilitate the second largest museum in Iraq and one of the few modernist structures still existing in Mosul after it was heavily damaged by the Islamic State.