ICOMOS e-News n°237 - May 2024

Culture Nature Prize - 15 days left to apply!

Culture Nature Prize 2024

Are you an ICOMOS member? Submit your Culture Nature project by 31 May: €15,000 will be distributed among 3 to 5 winners who are helping protect culture and nature through a comprehensive approach with local communities.

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In Memoriam - Dawson Munjeri (1949-2024)

Dawson Munjeri

ICOMOS is sad to hear about the passing of Professor Dawson Munjeri, who led a long and fruitful national and international career in the heritage field. He is regarded as a key contributor to the conservation and promotion of African tangible and intangible cultural heritage as well as to the inscription of Zimbabwean sites on the World Heritage List.

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Celebration of the International Day of Monuments and Sites in Africa: Events Recap

18 April Events Recap Africa

Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali and Senegal took part in the IDMS celebrations: National Committees and the ICOMOS Emerging Professionals Working Group for the Africa region organised excursions, virtual roundtables, conferences, debates and discussions.

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ICOMOS welcomes changed plans for the Viking Ship Hall

Following the 2019 ICOMOS Heritage Alert, issued in response to the delisting of this internationally recognised modernist exhibition hall and the political pressure to demolish it in favour of a new museum building, ICOMOS welcomes recent indications that plans for such demolition have changed.

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ICOMOS represented at the 2024 UN Ocean Conference in Barcelona

UN Ocean Decade Conference 2024

Elena Perez Alvaro and Martijn Manders, expert members of ICUCH (International Scientific Committee on Underwater Cultural Heritage) represented ICOMOS at the Barcelona conference, which was co-organized by UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission.

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