This report reviews the studies and proposals that have been created to date that have sought to improve the management of cruise ship infrastructure and operations in Venice. The research identifies strengths and weaknesses of past efforts, and compares the five major scenarios proposed in order...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
The Arches Heritage Inventory and Management System was developed by the Getty Conservation Institute and World Monuments Fund as an open source web-based geospatially enabled information system to help inventory and manage immovable cultural heritage. Read more
A once-glorious decorative plaster and bronze fireplace now lies obscured under decades of overpaint. The former studio of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, located at the New York Studio School in lower Manhattan, contains one of the most important commissions of artist Robert Winthrop Chanler. The...Read more
From September 28 to October 5, 2013, an international workshop called Ani in Context was convened in Turkey’s Kars region. The purpose of the workshop was to extend the focus to include other important heritage sites in the region, and to consider their relationship to Ani. The participants also...Read more
Watch Day is a series of celebratory events that promote community engagement and empower local partners to leverage and capitalize on the national and international attention drawn from being included on the World Monuments Watch. WMF developed a series of activity pages for schoolchildren to...Read more
Sawara was included on the 2012 World Monuments Watch among the heritage sites damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake to help raise international attention and funds to repair these sites because local resources were greatly depleted by the disaster. With funding from American Express, WMF...Read more
This report (in Spanish) details the activities that were organized by Grupo Patrimonio Qoriorqo as part of the two-day Heritage Day event. On April 21 and 22, the town of Andahuaylillas in Peru celebrated El Dia de Patrimonio, or Heritage Day, commemorating the fourth anniversary of the...Read more
In the years since a 1985 earthquake devastated Mexico City and destroyed many historic buildings, World Monuments Fund has been privileged to work in collaboration with a number of local partners in Mexico. Conservation projects have spanned centuries of heritage, and the World Monuments Watch has...Read more
The New York Studio School occupies a group of four mid-nineteenth-century townhouses at 8, 10, 12, and 14 West 8th Street in New York City’s Greenwich Village, each with a carriage house behind it opening onto MacDougal Alley. The properties were acquired and combined from 1907 to 1929 by sculptor...Read more