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Travel with WMF
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Join us from July 30 through August 4 as we explore the historic Taos Pueblo and Santa Fe in New Mexico.
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Isa Khan's Tomb Reopens in Delhi
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Simon Winchester to Speak for WMF
Noted author and journalist Simon Winchester will deliver the second annual H. Peter Stern Lecture on May 20 at Asia Society and Museum in New York City. His talk is titled "From Madmen to Oceans: A Conversation with Simon Winchester." For tickets and more information, visit our website.
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Awards for Sites in Spain and UK
Two sites where WMF has had significant involvement have won 2013 Europa Nostra Awards. Strawberry Hill (pictured), Horace Walpole's eighteenth-century Gothic Revival country house in Twickenham, England, won in the conservation category. WMF supported restoration efforts at the house between 2004 and 2010. The "Living Cabanyal Archive" in Valencia, Spain, won in the education, training, and awareness-raising category. Supporters cite its listing on the 2012 Watch and subsequent advocacy work by WMF in concert with the local community as catalytic for raising the profile of the historic neighborhood and the efforts to promote sustainable urban planning against the city's wide-scale demolition and redevelopment plans. For more information on these and other prize-winners, visit Europa Nostra's website.
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Decorations Unveiled at German Castle
A restored collection of rare interior decorations surviving in their original contexts were unveiled on April 30 at Little Pheasant Castle, or Fasanenschlösschen, in Moritzburg, Germany. The rococo-style decorations in the former hunting lodge include unique finishes crafted out of materials like embroidered silk, straw, pearls, and feathers. They and other interior decorations had not been restored since before the Second World War and had been deteriorating for many years before the WMF-supported restoration project.
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New Iraqi Heritage Management Course
As an extension of WMF's work with the Iraq State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH) to create a site management plan and undertake conservation of key structures at Babylon, WMF has launched a heritage conservation management training course at the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage. With support from the US Embassy in Baghdad and the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation, WMF has organized 12 weeks of seminars and site visits to engage Iraqi professionals in a larger discussion about international conservation issues. Topics range from the World Heritage nomination process to how to determine the methodology for establishing site boundaries and buffer zones, and through case studies and site visits to address issues of heritage values. A feature of the program is engagement with American university faculty, as well as Iraqi heritage organizations such as Nature Iraq. Program participants include SBAH personnel from Babylon and emerging Kurdish heritage professionals working at sites in the region. The course began in April and will continue through fall 2013. WMF's key university partner is University of Texas, San Antonio.
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