May 11, 2022, New York, NY—Today World Monuments Fund (WMF) and Tiffany & Co. announce the launch of Japan’s first professional gold leaf craftsman training program in Kanazawa, a coastal city north-east of Kyoto. The project aims to collaborate with the city of Kanazawa in ensuring the sustainable preservation of traditional craftsmanship of Kanazawa Haku gold leaf production, which was recently inscribed on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List.

On October 19, 2021, Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, Minister of Culture, and François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Banque de France, will inaugurate the reassembled interiors of the Chancellerie d'Orléans in the Hôtel de Rohan in Paris, France.

NEW YORK – One year after the disastrous fire at Notre-Dame de Paris, World Monuments Fund (WMF) reflects upon this fire and efforts to recover amid a global pandemic, as well as crises around the world that continue to undermine humanity’s heritage sites.

Bénédicte de Montlaur, CEO of World Monuments Fund:

New York, NY– World Monuments Fund (WMF) today announced Agence Christiane Schmuckle-Mollard has been awarded the 2018 WMF/Knoll Modernism Prize for their outstanding preservation of the Karl Marx School in Villejuif, France. For the first time in the prize’s ten year history, a special mention was also awarded to Harboe Architects, PC for their preservation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois.