The Asia-Pacific World Heritage Youth Forum in Beijing, China, 15-21 September 1997, will gather some 100 students and teachers from 21 countries in the region.  The objective is to involve young people in World Heritage preservation and promotion through discussions and creative workshops at the World Heritage sites of The Great Wall, Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian and the Imperial ...

In an effort to encourage coordinated disaster planning, mitigation and relief, the United Nations General Assembly established 1990-2000 as the international Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR).As disaster management strategies evolve at local, national and international levels, it is essential to assure inclusion of the cultural heritage - sites, structures and monuments, as well ...

ICOMOS Brasil has announced the II International Seminar on Roads to Preservation, to be celebrated at the Museu Brasileiro de Escultura in Sao Paulo from 27-30 July. Topics will include international charters, land use legislation, land use for archaeological and urban sites, linkage between cultural and natural heritage sites.

Monographic topic: Art and technology in the work of Antoni Gaudi Gaudi's architecture tends to be approached from one of two viewpoints, one stressing its artistic aspects and the other its technical innovations. However, as study deepens on the subject it becomes clear that in Gaudi the two concepts are indivisible; the mechanical, geometric and construction features are at the service of ...

The long-awaited international seminar on the management and conservation of Joya de Ceren and its surroundings (El Salvador) will be held from 7-11 July 1997. The seminar was preceded by a two-year process of studies and diagnoses on different aspects of conservation and management of the site. The substantive working document produced which will be the basis for discussions between national ...

Discover the TREASURED RELICS OF ORTHODOXY by means of the FULL catalogue of the exhibition.

The Association of Independent Museums will be celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 1997. Joint hosts for this special anniversary conference will be the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust and the Ironbridge Institute (University of Birmingham). The historic Ironbridge Gorge provides a fitting venue for this year's theme of 'Spirit of Time and Place'. The seminar programme will be ...

During the 20th Section of the World Heritage the exhibition Africa Revisited took place. It was designed and produced by Galia Saouma-Forero. The exhibition “Africa Revisited” was produced from information drawn from the first Global Strategy meeting in Harare in 1995 and the preparation of the meeting of Addis Ababa. The exhibition highlighted the diversity and fragility of ...

Expert Meeting on European Cultural Landscapes of Outstanding Universal Value, Vienna, Austria, 21 April 1996

Expert Meeting on 'Evaluation of general Principles and Criteria for Nomination of natural World Heritage Sites', Parc national de la Vanoise, France, March 22-24, 1996

The expert meeting on "Evaluation of general principles and criteria for nominations of natural World Heritage sites" was held from 22 to 24 March 1996 at the Parc National de la Vanoise (France) at the kind invitation of the French Ministry for the Environment. Twenty experts representing natural and cultural heritage disciplines participated in their individual capacity (see List of ...

The scientific conception and preparation of the Harare meeting was set up by a scientificcommittee which met at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 9 June 1995.

The Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on Associative Cultural Landscapes, New South Wales, Australie April 27-29, 1995

Regional Thematic Study Meeting 'Asian Rice Culture and its Terraced Landscape', Manila, Philippines, 28 March - 4 April, 1995

Expert Meeting on Heritage Canals, Chaffey Lock, Canada, September 15-19,1994

A double objective motivated the meeting organized by ICOMOS within the framework of the studies requested by the world Heritage Committee : the analysis of the various indicative lists prepared by the European countries, which have been convoked on this occasion, to avoid propositions which muld be of a repetition nature, to elaborate , in so far as it would be possible, a doctment which ...