In this issue, we’re delighted to launch a brand new series of Study Days for Spring/Summer 2009, sponsored by our excellent partners Symm (symm.co.uk). Read more
This edition of Monumentum closes one of our major projects, the restoration of the beautiful mid-eighteenth-century sculptures by John Cheere from the gardens of Queluz Palace in Portugal, marked by a six month-long exhibition at Tate Britain.Read more
For decades, color photographs ofthe Old Bridge in Mostar filled travel agents' glossy brochures, urging tourists sunning in Dubrovnik to venture inland. No image ever fully captured the bridge's significance, which only a first-hand encounter could reveal. Now, patrolling soldiers pose...Read more
Recording threats from climate change for the first time, the Watch List is WMF’s main advocacy tool and a way of spotlighting many new potential projects.Read more
For more than a millennium, the Maya civilization flourished in southern Mexico and Central America, building great cities with extraordinary architecture. Today, vestiges of this ancient civilization are evident in the thousands of archaeological sites that dot the region, testament to the...Read more
Following a £9.2 million restoration, WMF celebrates the opening of Hawksmoor’s masterpiece of eighteenth century architecture in this special edition of Monumentum.Read more
With more than lOO active projects in its current operating portfolio, WM F could easily rest on its laurels, proud of the extraordinary progress that is being made to save world treasures such as Angkor in Cambodia, the Lodge of Retirement in China's Forbidden City, Catherine the Great's...Read more
It has been more than four decades since WM F began leaving its indelible mark on the field of historic preservation and in that time, hundreds of sites have passed through our portfolio—some on the brink of collapse, others needing only an influential friend to champion their cause. But we have...Read more
Each time WMF solicits nominations for its biennial list of Most Endangered Sites, the organization's offices are flooded with applications, each making a case for a given site—its importance, the damage it has sustained, and the measures that must be taken to preserve it for future...Read more