The 2022 Watch magazine introduces you to the 2022 World Monuments Watch sites, brings you updates from our other sites and projects around the world, and recaps exciting accomplishments and events from the past year. Read more
This issue of Watch Magazine introduces our 2020 World Monuments Watch sites and features updates from our projects and activities around the world. Read more
The 2019 Watch Magazine brings you updates from our sites and projects around the world, as told by some of the trainees, advocates, and conservators who are helping WMF restore and steward them. Read more
The 2018 World Monuments Watch magazine features the themes that emerged through the selection of the 2018 Watch sites and up to date information about our priority projects. Every two years, the World Monuments Watch issues a call to action for treasured cultural heritage sites around the globe...Read more
While five sites cannot adequately represent all of WMF’s work in the field, those we have chosen share several themes of great importance to WMF. They represent extraordinary past achievements, have the potential for greater community benefit and engagement, and intrigue residents and visitors who...Read more
Charities rarely stay the same, for they must respond to their own past, to present need and future opportunity. Staying vital has forever been this way: Mary Beard talks of human ritual as being “always a mixture of scrupulous attention to precedent, convenient amnesia, and the ‘invention of...Read more
I recently wrote a piece in the Financial Times about the paradox behind our great monuments, those which we regard as the world’s patrimony, a uniting force for our species. Of course, many of them are so monumental precisely because they were built by immensely unfair societies, funded by an...Read more
‘I call architecture frozen music’, said Goethe. It’s an intriguing idea. We can all appreciate music almost from birth, for its innate mathematical structures, its proportion, depth and even colour. Music is the finest expression of our aural environment, transcending mere noise often with a rich...Read more
It’s tempting to herald the new year; to reflect on the economic trough we operate within. But neither fit the schedule or character of our current work. For one thing, our major project at Coventry Cathedral was begun last summer and has taken the last eight months of research, planning and...Read more