This edition of Monumentum closes one of our major projects, the restoration of the beautiful mid-eighteenth-century sculptures by John Cheere from the gardens of Queluz Palace in Portugal, marked by a six month-long exhibition at Tate Britain.Read more
For decades, color photographs ofthe Old Bridge in Mostar filled travel agents' glossy brochures, urging tourists sunning in Dubrovnik to venture inland. No image ever fully captured the bridge's significance, which only a first-hand encounter could reveal. Now, patrolling soldiers pose...Read more
The 2008 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize was awarded to Brenne Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH, headed by Winfried Brenne and Franz Jaschke, for their restoration of the Bauhaus-designed ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau, Germany.Read more
Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland was established in March by the Union of Jewish Communities in Poland and the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO). Our mission is to protect and commemorate the surviving monuments of Jewish cultural heritage in Poland. The...Read more
Jaisalmer Fort, located approximately 300 kilometers west of Jodhpur in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, India, dates back to 1200 a.d. Built by Maharawal Jaisal Singh at a strategic location along ancient trade routes, it has suffered not just the ravages of time, but also the inexorable...Read more
The places mankind has built define our history on Earth. Our structures tell the story of our past; they frame our accomplishments and reflect our cultural and artistic aspirations. They are a testament to humanity’s extraordinary creativity in adapting the world’s diverse and multifaceted...Read more
Every two years since 1996, the World Monuments Watch has focused global attention on cultural heritage sites around the world that are facing such dangers and that illuminate current issues in the field of heritage preservation.Read more
The Angkor Archaeological Park, an immense Hindu-Buddhist temple complex, lies in the jungles of northwest Cambodia. The temples at Angkor represent the pinnacle of the Khmer civilization, which ruled most of the region between the ninth and 15th centuries a.d.Read more
Ten thousand years ago, the foundations of human civilization were laid in the fertile floodplain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what was then Mesopotamia and is now the modern nation of Iraq. An estimated ten thousand sites within Iraq’s borders chronicle thousands of years of human...Read more