Events

On the occasion of European Heritage Days, UNESCO will open its doors to the public on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 September 2022, from 10 am to 6 pm. This year’s edition will be marked by the 50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention and will feature a unique exhibition by contemporary painter Sacha Jafri. In addition to opening its emblematic Headquarters, Japanese garden by Isamu ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the World Heritage Convention by UNESCO’s General Conference on 16 November 1972. With near universal ratification by 194 States Parties, the World Heritage Convention is now one of the most ratified international conventions in history. The 1,154 cultural and natural World Heritage properties located in 167 countries across the globe ...

The International Centre for the Interpretation and Presentation of World Heritage Sites under the auspices of UNESCO (hereinafter the WHIPIC) will hold the 2022 Online Lecture and Webinar Series on Understanding World Heritage Interpretation, which consists of five sessions from 25 August to 3 November. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, the WHIPIC ...

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of World Heritage. Anthology 3 (Exhibition of paintings from the museum collection of modern and contemporary art). The exhibition will consist important works from the most influential painters of the Macedonian and ex Yugoslavian area, with works in the field of abstraction and enformel style.Sasho Blazheskifine art conservatorNational institution for ...

A museum display at the Eswatini National Museum on Lion Cavern, the world's oldest mine. Lion Cavern is on the tentative list for World Heritage. It is an ochre mine dating back well into the Middle Stone Ages in Africa and is dated to 43 000 years ago. Ochre was, and is, used for symbolic purposes in Southern Africa, and the mine remains a sacred site to shamanic healers. There was research ...

50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention - Celebrating Queensland’s World Heritage Properties: Great Barrier Reef, K’gari (Fraser Island), Riversleigh, Gondwana and the Wet Tropics of Queensland.For more information:Toni ThwaitesExecutive Officer K'gari[Department Environment and Science QLDtoni.thwaites@des.qld.gov.au

Raising awareness on World Heritage site management, Risk Disaster Management and Sustainable tourism development to the provincial government agencies, district authorities agencies and high schools around World Heritage sites.Paxa NYORDSAVANHAacademic OfficerMinistry of Information, Culture and Tourism of the Lao PDRnyordsavanh@yahoo.com

The Next 50: World Heritage as a source of resilience, humanity and innovation From 11 June to 16 November 2022, WHITRAP Shanghai will organize a series of 6 monthly online  thematic World Heritage Dialogues (including a WHITRAP Herit-AP Chat in July), co-organized by the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) Tongji University (Shanghai, China) to celebrate the 50th Anniversary ...

Short promotional animated film "Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija" was produced on the 10th anniversary of the inscription of "Heritage of mercury. Almadén and Idrija" on the UNESCO World Heritage List and the 50th anniversary of the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. The production of the film was financed by the Municipality of Idrija, and the ...