The Friends of Assisi, an emergency appeal to assist Italy's recovery from the recent earthquakes that have struck the center of the country, has been founded in association with WMF. Since September 26, 1997 a series of powerful tremors and strong aftershocks have damaged parts of Umbria and...Read more
On May 23, 1996, WMF president Bonnie Burnham presented the first thirty-four World Monuments Watch grants at a special dinner in New York. This followed the announcement in March of the World Monuments Fund List of IOO Most Endangered Sites, a first-ever 'endangered species list' of...Read more
The World Monuments Fund's restoration, completed in 1992, of the templet and garden of the Mudejar Cloister at the Royal Monastery of Guadalupe has won a 1995 Europa Nostra Prize. The principal cloister of the monastery established under royal patronage in 1341 and constructed through the...Read more
With a $5 million lead grant from American Express Company WMF proudly announces the establishment of the World Monuments Watch, a major new program aimed at identifying and preserving the world's most important endangered cultural landmarks...Read more
In January WMF completed the first phase of restoration of the Tempel Synagogue in Cracow, a project launched and financed by the Jewish Heritage Council (JHC). An expert team of Polish architects and engineers completely replaced the building's standing seam metal roof and its related water...Read more