ARCH 440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: World Monuments Fund, Global Heritage Fund, World Heritage Site
Guest Speaker, Jonathan Spodek - International Efforts in
Heritage Conservation
• The Players: Major Organizations involved in Preservation around the World
o Intergovernmental organizations (country will join)
• UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization)
▪ Seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of
cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of
outstanding value to humanity.
▪ Places with significance to humankind
• ICCROM (International Center for the Study of Preservation and Restoration of
Cultural Property)
▪ Learn how to do the physical work needed to preserve
▪ Training offered plus archive of documents
▪ Powerful network to connect professionals
o Non-governmental Organizations (nonprofit over a physical area)
• World Monuments Fund
▪ Dedicated to saving the world's most treasured places
▪ A lot about advocacy
• Global Heritage Fund
▪ About specific projects, engage and resource projects with funding often
over long periods of time
• Getty Conservation Institute
▪ Visual arts, collections, architectural, and sites
o International Professional Groups (groups an individual can join)
• ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites)
▪ Conservation and protection of cultural heritage places
• DoCoMoMo (documentation and conservation of buildings in the modern
movement)
▪ Modern Movement buildings (post WWII)
• APTI (association for preservation technology international)
▪ Focused on multi-discipline
• ICOM (international council of museums)
▪ People who deal with museums (ex: pantheon, machu pichu)
• International Heritage Policy Documents
o Athens Charter: 1931 (Charter: Document people sign on with specific principles)
• Manifesto of how to deal with historic and heritage sites
o Venice Charter: 1964
• Principles of conservation based on the concept of authenticity and the
importance of maintaining the historical and physical context of a site or
building
o World Heritage Convention: 1972
• Establishing a listing of important sites to inventory and know what we have
and what is of value
o Nara Document on Authenticity: 1994
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