By Aparna Tandon, Senior Programme Leader, First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis, ICCROM COVID-19 knows no borders. The virus is already having devastating impacts in countries around the world, on lives of people and the social fabric of our shared existence. Hundreds of micro cultures and their bearers may also
By Cristina Escudero, conservator of the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Coordinator of the Emergency Unit for Cultural Heritage of the Region Castilla y León (UGRECYL) I suppose more than one person will be surprised by this question since despite the evolving concept of “cultural heritage” that has considerably broadened particularly in recent decades,
ICCROM, in cooperation with the members of the Italian National Civil Protection Service involved in protecting cultural heritage in emergency, has implemented another important initiative: the Eighth International Course on First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAC19). The course provided for the cooperation of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
