Recent conservation work at Qusayr ’Amra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site 85 kilometers east of Amman, has revealed the name of the Umayyad prince who commissioned the construction of the building.
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The Kyoto Center for Community Collaboration (KCCC) and World Monuments Fund (WMF) have announced the completion of restoration work at a historic machiya (townhouse) in Kyoto. The machiya, called Furaibo, will open to the public as a museum on May 25.
At an inauguration ceremony today, two historic rooms of the Fuggerhouse in Augsburg, Germany, were reopened to the public to mark the completion of extensive conservation work. The mayor of Augsburg, donors to the project, and representatives of the Denkmalamt of Bavaria were present.
Today, American Express and World Monuments Fund announced $1 million in grant funding to six historic sites. This is the first allocation from a $5 million, five-year grant to the World Monuments Fund to support the World Monuments Watch.
Bonnie Burnham, President of World Monuments Fund (WMF), and officials of Madhya Pradesh, announced today a partnership to conserve a portfolio of historic sites in the Indian state.
A recently completed economic impact study sheds new light on the importance of heritage tourism and historic preservation along Route 66 as a contributor to local, state, and national economies.
El World Monuments Fund (WMF) informó hoy que se abre la convocatoria de nominaciones para el Premio Modernismo 2012 de World Monuments Fund/ Knoll.
Experts from around the world are meeting today and tomorrow, 14 and 15 March, at the premises of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, to discuss the ongoing international conservation project at the World Heritage Site of Qusayr ’Amra and the outstanding progress this project has achieved so
Die Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg (SPSG) konnte ab 2007 Dank einer amerikanisch-deutschen Zusammenarbeit die Restaurierung des Unteren Fürstenquartiers im Neuen Palais von Sanssouci vornehmen.