Cuando viaja a cualquier sitio del mundo, El Viajero Ilustrado se preocupa por la supervivencia de ciertos lugares –monumentos, construcciones históricas o sitios naturales– que pueden estar comprometidos por la desidia o por su abuso como recursos turísticos.
The U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh announced on Monday the 2013 grant recipients for the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation in Cambodia, a U.S. Embassy’s press release said.
HYDERABAD: The 200-year-old British Residency in Koti which was listed by the World Monument Fund as an endangered structure in 2002 has found a new savior-the National Culture Fund (NCF).
The NCF has agreed to help conserve and restore the Residency, which houses the Osmania University College for Women, in cooperation with the department of archeology and museums (DAM) and Osmania University. "An agreement between the three is expected to be signed soon," B T Seetha, principal of the college said on Monday.
El World Monument Fund es una institución realmente dedicada a la preservación del patrimonio, con una actitud que desmiente ese argumento tan pobre de que cuidar es “museificar”. Desde sus oficinas en el Empire State de Nueva York –patrimonio él mismo y de primera agua– el WMF se dedica creativamente a apoyar iniciativas, conseguir fondos, aportar expertos y a destacar el valor de “lo nuestro” de cada uno.
A team of experts will study each stone within a representative sample area of the aqueduct to identify pathologies, and develop a conservation plan for the structure. This study is being funded by American Express through WMF.
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Poland last week, he found a Polish Jewish community virtually unrecognizable to any student of history.
In commemoration of World Heritage Day, the aesthetically constructed garden tombs of Isa Khan Niyazi and Bu Halima, located at the entrance of Humayun’s Tomb, were on Thursday re-opened to the public after a gap of two years.
Some Colón boosters have mustered their own piecemeal efforts, tired of waiting for a government rescue. Kurt Dillon, an architect and urban planner, has led a coalition to save and restore some of the crumbling buildings in the city’s historic core, recently drawing dozens of preservationists to write a plan with the help of the World Monuments Fund, an independent nonprofit group. “Civil society has to get things done here,” he said.
