The Getty's floating conference on the conservation of archaeological sites.

While many details are yet to be fine-tuned, it should be ready to protect Europe's cultural treasures by the end of the year

He plans to develop learning centres, nominate new World Heritage sites, preservation of monuments, and protection of Angkor

Unesco is coordinating a restoration programme for buildings from the Pyramid of Cheops to the Blue Mosque

What is the point of restoring modern art? Is it reasonable to treat a Rauschenberg as if it were a Leonardo?

The Spinola family has created a Foundation and is looking for sponsors; the State would like to get possession of the sadly-neglected building

The proposal is greeted by suspicion and political posturing within the Italian art and archaeology world and even the Ministry of Culture.

Signatories include The Art Newspaper's own Anna Somers Cocks

The Minister for Education and Culture sends list of destruction to Unesco and invokes the 1954 Hague Convention

To resurrect or not to resurrect Dresden’s Frauenkirche, which has been left in ruins as a slowly decaying war memorial

The safeguarding of these places of global, cultural importance will increase

The 1954 convention is the product of nearly a century’s thought about cultural property in which it is implicit that it is the heritage of all mankind