El World Monuments Fund está invitando a la gente que ama su patrimonio en todo el mundo a nominar lugares o edificios en peligro. El Fund es una institución internacional con base en Nueva York que ayuda a valorizar el patrimonio natural y construido en el mundo entero.
Things have changed. China, now (and not for the first time) a global power in need of an agreeable self-image to sell, has seen the wisdom of preserving its visual heritage — all of it. And international scholars of that heritage, once separated by distance, are now thoroughly networked. A concrete result of this new one-worldism is a collaboration, now in progress, between the Palace Museum and the World Monuments Fund to restore the Qianlong Garden to its former splendor.
After the last emperor was expelled from the Forbidden City in 1924, most of the garden was shut off to the public, the buildings used for storage. In 2001, in a rare partnership, the Palace Museum joined with the New York-based World Monuments Fund, an international historic preservation charity, and undertook to restore it.
The World Monuments Fund, working with Iraq’s State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, has drafted a conservation plan to combat any further deterioration of Babylon’s mud-brick ruins and reverse some of the effects of time and Mr. Hussein’s propagandistic and archaeologically specious re-creations.
Over the years Pompeii’s topography and general state of health have been evaluated several times, most recently through a project sponsored by the World Monuments Fund. A team of archaeologists, architects and information technology experts drafted a diagnostic program and created a master plan for mapping the ruins. They also recommended steps to maintain the site.
Plans to redevelop St Peter's Seminary in Cardross are to be highlighted at the prestigious Venice Biennale architectural festival.
'The Emperor's Private Paradise: Treasures From the Forbidden City" is not so much a show as an experience. Its subject is a 1.5-acre garden complex inside the Tranquility and Longevity Palace, a compound that the fifth Qing Emperor, Qianlong, built in the 1770s in the northwest corner of Beijing's Forbidden City. On display are about 90 such works from the Forbidden City's Palace Museum, which since 2001 has been collaborating with the World Monuments Fund to restore and conserve the Qianlong Garden. The restoration is slated for completion in 2019.
