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How should we manage our heritage futures?

Changing the way we think about colonial heritage

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4 questions online museum exhibitions should ask themselves for a start

Stimulating private museums: Riga’s weapon to battle pandemic effects in cultural sector

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Don’t want a desk job? Work with historic crafts, says German heritage foundation

Soviet blocks in Tbilisi. Image: Kris Duda via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Europe’s Cold War Heritage: Reflections on Georgia’s troubled memory

EDITOR'S PICKS

Pstrąże, an abandoned village/settlement in southwestern Poland, taken by the Soviet army in 1945. In 1992, they left it abandoned and ruined. Image: Qbanez via wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Europe’s Cold War Heritage: Poland’s “rightfully bygone times”

Cologne/Köln bridge. Image via Pixabay

Heritage experts want to talk, but local German politicians refuse to listen

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“Youth for the Future of Cultural Heritage in Europe” survey launched by Europa Nostra and partners

Linen weaving market in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Image via wikimedia (GFDL)

New German monuments law pushes out heritage experts

Europe’s 7 most endangered heritage sites for 2022 announced

La Sagrada Familia. Image: Jarmoluk via Pixabay

Completion of Sagrada Familia may lead to thousands of evictions

13th Century Boardwalk underneath Stralauer Straße. Image: Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, M. Malliaris

Berlin’s oldest street discovered in pristine condition

MORE NEWS

Fighting art crime and protecting heritage across the world: meet Italy’s “Blue Helmets of Culture”

Three stained-glass windows in the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp. Image: Alvegaspar via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Heritage organisations fear blanket ban of lead metal use by EU agency

Híjar medieval synagogue. Image: Foundation for Jewish Heritage

New steps for recovery of medieval Synagogue and Jewish Quarter in Híjar, Spain

Dzīvojamā ēka, a registered heritage monument in Liepāja. Image: Mārtiņš Bruņenieks via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Liepāja named as one of the European Capitals of Culture 2027

Image: New European Bauhaus / European Commission

Five “lighthouse projects” to be funded through the New European Bauhaus

BLOGS

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

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

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

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

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

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 | The memories of the Franco regime in media

One of the tapestries of Pastrana

History of hidden cultural heritage: Pastrana’s tapestries

Looking for Faro Blog | This is my heritage

ESACH Blog | A sustainable view for heritage management

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 | Where Renaissance meets technology

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

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

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

ESACH Blog | Promoting diversity and inclusion with digital collections

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

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

Source: Alma Hoekstra

Looking for Faro Blog | Back to basics

Faro, Portugal. Image: 2427999 via Pixabay CC0

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

Looking for Faro Blog | Football or bobbin lace?

European Heritage Youth Ambassadors look back on 2021

ESACH Blog | Heritage and tourism for sustainable solutions: stakeholder involvement in heritage tourism

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

Can heritage serve as a means to combat rural shrinkage?

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

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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

ONGOING PROJECTS

ESJF Surveyors at the Jewish cemetery in Ożarów, Poland. Image: ESJF

European Commission launches new project to protect Jewish cemeteries in Central and Eastern Europe

New courses in Donegal are part of efforts to keep the art of weaving alive. Image: Donegal ETB

Making history with a revival of weaving in Donegal, Ireland

Source: HUB-IN

HUB-IN presents analysis of heritage-led regeneration in Historic Urban Areas throughout Europe

Cultural Heritage in Action shares trends on cultural heritage management in Europe

New CHARTER Alliance will unite and professionalise the European cultural heritage sector

Interview: Antonella Fresa on cultural heritage participatory approaches of the REACH project

OpenHeritage releases its second policy brief: Collaborative heritage reuse

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