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Ontario Place: Towards an Inclusive Preservation Dialogue

A special online event in WMF's new On My Watch series: exploring the political, cultural, and technical issues surrounding the preservation of at-risk sites on the World Monuments Watch.

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A New Generation of Landscape Preservationists

After three months of virtual and on-site training, the inaugural class of WMF's Bridge to Crafts Careers Landscape Preservation program came together for a virtual graduation ceremony.

Guests to World Monuments Fund 55th Anniversary Gala Traverse The Globe From Home

Virtual Event Raises More Than $835,000 for Protecting World Heritage; Empire State Building Illuminated Blue in Honor of Anniversary.

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2022 World Monuments Watch Call for Nominations

We are now accepting nominations for the 2022 World Monuments Watch—WMF’s global program that seeks to discover, spotlight, and take action on behalf of heritage places.

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Safeguarding Japan's Ryokan Tradition

After torrential rains and floods swept through the Japanese city of Hitoyoshi in July, local students came together to save a 1934 historic Japanese hot spring inn.

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Ontario Place: Towards an Inclusive Preservation Dialogue

A New Generation of Landscape Preservationists

Guests to World Monuments Fund 55th Anniversary Gala Traverse The Globe From Home

2022 World Monuments Watch Call for Nominations

Safeguarding Japan's Ryokan Tradition

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Angkor Archaeological Park

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Ontario Place: Towards an Inclusive Preservation Dialogue

A New Generation of Landscape Preservationists

Guests to World Monuments Fund 55th Anniversary Gala Traverse The Globe From Home

Empire State Building Shines in Honor of WMF's 55th Anniversary

The House of Byron: Newstead’s Dysfunctional Dynasty

WMF Statement on Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh

Watch Day: Kindler Chapel, Poland

Watch Day: Chivas and Chaityas, Nepal

Safeguarding Japan's Ryokan Tradition

Spotlight from the Field: Aye Hnin Wai

On My Watch: Canal Nacional

The Confederate Monument Debate: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments with Difficult Pasts

Fake Heritage: Why We Rebuild Monuments

Saving the Soul of Beirut: The Path to Recovery

WMF Presents Gaudí & Trencadís Exhibit in Valencia

Ontario Place, Modernist Icon in Need of Urgent Action

Historic Water Systems of the Future: The Case of Bijapur, India

American Express Awards $1 Million to 2020 World Monuments Watch Sites

An Inside Look at WMF's Jewish Heritage Program

Stonemasonry Training Program Begins in Lebanon

Nina Simone Childhood Home Permanently Protected

Launch of the B2CC Landscape Preservation Program

Destruction of Sudan's Ancient Jabal Maragha

WMF Solidarity with Yemen after Devastating Floods

Bunce Island: Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

Spotlight from the Field: The Stonemasonry Trainees of Mafraq, Jordan

Valuing Modern Heritage in India

Pioneering Modernist Architect Vann Molyvann's Designs at Risk

Statement of Solidarity with Lebanon and Support to Recover the Damaged Cultural Heritage in Beirut

On My Watch: Amira Souliman and Abeer Saed Eledeen at Takiyyat Ibrahim al-Gulshani in Cairo, Egypt

WMF Mourns Passing of Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler

Patel Stadium receives 'Keeping It Modern' architecture conservation grant from the Getty Foundation

Spotlight from the Field: Ousmane Kounta

Statement from World Monuments Fund regarding Hagia Sophia

The Battle to Save Grimsby's Historic Kasbah

A Time for Action

Solidarity

The Anniversary of Notre-Dame’s Blaze Comes Amid Global Challenges to Heritage

A Focus on the US

Protecting Our Cultural Icons from Fire

The Role We Play Now

Cultural Heritage in the Time of Coronavirus

World Monuments Fund Names Jonathan S. Bell as Vice President of Programs

2020 Paul Mellon Lecture Explores the Meaning of a Monument

A Statement on Iran's Cultural Heritage

Preserving Shwe-nandaw Through a Child’s Eyes

Celebrating the 500th Anniversary of Havana, Cuba

World Monuments Fund and ALIPH Announce $1.1M Partnership to Preserve Conflict-Affected Heritage

2020 Watch Magazine

Express Your Solidarity with Shuri Castle

Celebrating Heritage Champions at the 2019 Hadrian Gala

World Monuments Fund Announces 2020 World Monuments Watch

WMF receives two 2019 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation

Celebrating Voices of Alabama

Babylon's First Female Architect

Alabama Civil Rights Stories Launch Online

Sea Change: Blackpool’s exposed piers act as canaries to climate change

A New Welcome at Cerro de Oro

The Fascinating Return of Laocoön to Stowe House

Interpretando Cerro de Oro: En conversación con Vincent Juillerat

Interpreting Cerro de Oro: In Conversation with Vincent Juillerat

Watch Day: Takiyyat Ibrahim al-Gulshani

Taking a Closer Look at Lal Bagh Palace

Important news from Lorna Goodman

World Monuments Fund Names Bénédicte de Montlaur Next CEO

Watch Day: Potager du Roi