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Historic England promotes working-class heritage in England.

Young heritage professionals ready to discuss the sector’s taboos: “Heritage is a lesson in empathy”

Activist archaeologists looking to ‘break the binary’ baffle academics

A painting you can smell? The future of inclusive museums on display in Madrid

Incoming heatwave? Let’s go to the museum!

Inflation and staff shortage loom dark over European summer travel plans

EDITOR'S PICKS

Heritage and citizen science projects: three initiatives involving the public in heritage sites

Image: Canva

“There are no easy translations in heritage” says freelance heritage translator Julia

TRENDING

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland.

Renovated 1938-constructed Olympic Stadium wins Finlandia Prize for Architecture

Source: European Heritage Days

2022 European Heritage Days will celebrate Sustainable Heritage

The Notre Dame Cathedral fire in 2019. Image: Alexander Perrien Canva CC0

“Anachronistic” rebuild of Notre Dame angers environmental group

Orient Express train line adds new destinations

Spreepark's Ferris Wheel. Image: Wikimedia (FAL 1.3)

New life for Soviet-era amusement park in East-Berlin

MORE NEWS

Fire extinguishers delivered in Ukraine to protect listed wooden churches

Explained: How do you become a UNESCO World Heritage Site?

€300m made available to innovate cultural and creative sector: “It’s an innovating ecosystem”

Local communities and sustainability key to Finland’s new heritage protection strategy

See all Winners of the 2022 European Heritage Awards

BLOGS

Can heritage serve as a means to combat rural shrinkage?

ESACH Blog | Promoting diversity and inclusion with digital collections

New series of articles: Future Making in the Anthropocene

ESACH Blog | How to design a risk preparedness plan according to the Second Protocol of the 1954 Hague Convention

ESACH Blog | The fallacy of revitalization: subversive creativity, consumption, and the contestation of heritage spaces

house of leaves wall

ESACH Blog | Dark Heritage museums in Tirana: reflections on the past and tourist attraction

Looking for Faro Blog | Can heritage serve as a means to combat rural shrinkage?

Looking for Faro Blog | What is heritage? Or, what can it be?

ESACH Blog | Cultural landscapes: reflecting culture through the lens of photography

ESACH Blog | A UNESCO site restoration, conservation and valorization project in Transylvania as a potential factor of sustainable development in the area

Looking for Faro Blog | What can the queen learn from urban planning?

ESACH Blog | The memories of the Franco regime in media

ESACH Blog | The application of survey advanced techniques in Palazzo Ducale in Mantova, Italy

ESACH Blog | An innovative role of heritage in sustainable development from a community engagement perspective

One of the tapestries of Pastrana

History of hidden cultural heritage: Pastrana’s tapestries

Tinos: View of the Cardiani settlement in Tinos island. Locals and heritage experts warn against the planned installation of wind power infrastructure in this small-scale, layered landscape. Image: Marilena Mela

Future Making in the Anthropocene Blog | Heritage and the energy transition: the case of European islands

Looking for Faro Blog | This is my heritage

ESACH Blog | Where Renaissance meets technology

Faro, Portugal. Image: 2427999 via Pixabay CC0

Looking for Faro Blog | Faro, where are we going?

ESACH Blog | Beyond engagement: community led World Heritage nominations of Indigenous sites in Australia

ESACH Blog | How can we avoid historical “cultural appropriation” in an ongoing globalized world?

Southern Germany around 120.000 years ago. Image: Elke Gröning

Future Making in the Anthropocene Blog | Nature’s reaction to shifting baseline syndrome

Looking for Faro Blog | Football or bobbin lace?

Looking for Faro Blog | Archaeology: from licking shards to dig therapy

ESACH Blog | Description of the initiative by ESACH Editor-in-Chief Giacomo Martinis

A crowd of tourists in La Rambla street in Barcelona. Photocredit: Nikolaus Bader: https://pixabay.com/images/id-4919890/

Future Making in the Anthropocene Blog | Mass tourism in historical cities

Southern Germany around 120.000 years ago. Image: Elke Gröning

Future Making in the Anthropocene Blog | Nature’s reaction to shifting baseline syndrome

ESACH Blog | Connecting heritage and youth through Minecraft: MI.MOMO.FARO

ESACH Blog | Community engagement through volunteering for heritage: a case study

Tinos: View of the Cardiani settlement in Tinos island. Locals and heritage experts warn against the planned installation of wind power infrastructure in this small-scale, layered landscape. Image: Marilena Mela

Future Making in the Anthropocene Blog | Heritage and the energy transition: the case of European islands

ESACH Blog | Beyond engagement: community led World Heritage nominations of Indigenous sites in Australia

EVEN MORE NEWS

Image: FLUGT Museum

New museum tells refugee stories despite Denmark’s difficult history

Rome’s wonder bus takes you 2000 years back in time

Europe

Exploring how to deal with problematic cultural heritage data

Long overdue? British Museum hints at deal with Greece over Parthenon Marbles

Spectacular discovery: Dutch archaeologists unearth one of the most complete Roman temples in North-Western Europe

Improving heritage resilience: HYPERION and the fight against climate change

Europe’s first museum for rescued art opened: “Almost ended up in hands of a Kardashian”

Cafés, fairytales, and female writers: Three new cultural routes across Europe

New research: ‘The future of estate landscapes in Europe’ out now

7 Most Endangered 2023: now open for nominations

Commissioner: “protected heritage can be exempted from Green Deal’s measurements”

12 new European Heritage Label sites receive awards

Image: ORBIS/Stanford University Libraries

Medieval Google Maps and four other heritage apps and websites to nerd out with

Who owns the gold of the San José shipwreck?

EVENTS & CALLS

202217augAll Day22Media/FAM tour for journalists: WWII and Cold War heritage tourism in Latvia and Estonia Event Organized By: Military Heritage Tourism

202220augAll Day28ICOM Prague 2022: The Power of Museums Event Organized By: ICOM

202231augAll Day03sep28th EAA Annual Meeting Event Organized By: European Association of Archaeologists

202231augAll Day03sep28th EAA Annual Meeting Event Organized By: European Association of Archaeologists

2022sepOnline Conference: The Best in Heritage Online Edition Event Organized By: The Best in Heritage

202206sep9:00 am5:00 pmInternational study day: Comics @the Museum Event Organized By: FARO

2022octOnline Conference: The Best in Heritage Online Edition Event Organized By: The Best in Heritage

202205octAll Day07Annual Advisory Forum: Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Event Organized By: Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe

202207octAll Day11Interpret Europe Training Days 2022Register before 20 September! Event Organized By: Interpret Europe

2022augCall for applications: Europe + Heritage ProgrammeNo deadline: year-round application possible Event Organized By: Dutch Culture

202215augAll Day31decCall for Participants: 2022 Young European Heritage Makers Event Organized By: European Commission

202215augAll Day31decCall for Participants: 2022 Young European Heritage Makers Event Organized By: European Commission

2022sepCall for Good Practices: Cultural Heritage in ActionSharing your best practice Event Organized By: Cultural Heritage in Action

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Silver skies or foggy foresight? What the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage tells us

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Sunken castle resurfaces through virtual archaeology route

Ongoing projects

Charter interviews Harry Verwayen: general director of the Europeana Foundation

Saint George on a Bike project launches crowdsourcing campaign to generate natural language descriptions automatically

Join the Digital Storytelling Festival’s Opening Gala

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Saint George on a Bike project shows in video how artificial intelligence can benefit the cultural heritage sector

A blue whale skeleton in the Hintze Hall of the Natural History Museum in London in 2017. Source: Steveoc 86 via Wikimedia

Digitising a museum collection could contribute over £2 billion to the economy

Ancient Olympia. Source: Microsoft via YouTube

Greek Ministry of Culture and Microsoft digitally preserve and restore Ancient Olympia

Source: ภาพของtridsanu Thophet via Canva

European Commission: ‘Digitise all cultural heritage monuments and sites at risk by 2030’

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