Focus Areas

Field work is at the center of our identity. With our local partners, we develop sustainable solutions for individual sites that reverberate throughout a region or have applications to similar challenges elsewhere in the world. 

As our planet faces unprecedented change, multiple threats are taking their toll on the world’s treasured places. Through the World Monuments Watch and other advocacy programs, WMF uses its voice to stand up for heritage, raising public concern and galvanizing action to preserve places that matter. 

The survival of heritage sites central to the cultural and spiritual life of communities is threatened by the loss of traditional construction methods.  Affirming the inextricable connection between people and place, WMF trains local residents to conserve their cultural heritage so it may be passed down to the next generation.