ICOMOS-UK Publications
ICOMOS-UK publishes work generated from contributions by its membership who are skilled heritage professionals, and from the membership of the various Committees. The publications are intended to provide specialised knowledge for those with an interest in aspects of tangible and intangible heritage.
We publish a bulletin every quarter, with each edition related to the work of an ICOMOS-UK Committee. Our aim is that more people will become involved, to contribute to the conservation and development of heritage, so if you have an idea for an article please do get in touch: admin@icomos-uk.org .
If you are interested in our Bulletin, please click here to subscribe.
The Summer 2023 edition of the Bulletin, on the theme of Intangible Cultural Heritage, can be found here.
If you are interested in our Intangible Heritage Committee’s ‘Exploring Intangible Cultural Heritage Report’, you can email us for a PDF of the report at admin@icomos-uk.org.
And you can also subscribe to our channel on Youtube, where you can find recordings of many of our events.
ICOMOS Documentation Centre
The ICOMOS Documentation Centre in Paris is open to anyone interested in the conservation and restoration of cultural heritage. ICOMOS members have priority access to the Documentation Centre. It contains:
- 40,000 titles on heritage worldwide
- 400 periodicals
- 25,000 slides, photographs and plans
- Original nomination files of World Heritage Sites worldwide since 1978
You can visit the Documentation Centre (check the opening hours first), access the catalogue and the latest publications.
ICOMOS Guidelines and Statements
ICOMOS Ethical Statement for ICOMOS members
This is an ethical commitment for ICOMOS members, which outlines an ICOMOS member’s practical responsibility towards cultural heritage and towards fellow members.
Policy for the Implementation of the World Heritage Mandate
This covers conflicts of interest in relation to ICOMOS and individuals working on World Heritage Site nominations or projects relating to World Heritage Sites
Guidance on Heritage Impact Assessments
This is Guidance for those commissioning Heritage Impact Assessments (HIAs) for World Heritage Sites, to help evaluate the impact of proposed development on the Outstanding Universal Value of properties.
The full Guidance and Toolkit document can be found here.
Other key ICOMOS charters, texts and guidelines are on the ICOMOS international website.
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Exploring Intangible Cultural Heritage in Museum Contexts
ICOMOS-UK Intangible Cultural Heritage Committee (ICHC) is pleased to present this report of the pilot project Exploring Intangible Cultural Heritage in Museum Contexts. It is a collaborative developmental initiative between the ICHC and Arts Council England (ACE). The Report demonstrates the need for involvement of ICH practicing communities, and of artists as intermediaries between the diverse groups of bearers and cultural organisations, in order to forge an equitable tripartite curation that can make collections and museum spaces alive and relevant to contemporary society.
The framework for the project was based on UNESCO’s 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage – an international standard-setting instrument, which provides definitions of ICH for the safeguarding of intangible culture and the role of bearer communities.
Four museums, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Weald and Downland Living Museum, Museum of Cambridge, and Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, rose to the challenge and volunteered to be part of the pilot. A bespoke methodology comprising two layers of processes were used to gauge museums’ level of awareness and knowledge of ICH, test the use of ICH as an interpretative tool, explore the role of artists as intermediaries to facilitate interactions between the practicing communities and museums, and establish what types of synergies and dynamics the threeway relationship could yield in curating collections in the museums and those held by the bearer communities.
The project was showcased at ICOMOS-UK’s ICH Committee’s conference of the 23rd of March
2019 focusing on safeguarding ICH – the passing on of our diverse living heritages to future generations.
Click here to read and download the full report.
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The Conservation Plan
A guide to the preparation of conservation plans for places of European cultural significance
| James Semple Kerr | ISBN: 1863640266 |
National Trust of Australia, 7th Edition 2013
Dr Kerr has kindly allowed Australia ICOMOS to provide The Conservation Plan as a free download:
http://australia.icomos.org/publications/the-conservation-plan/
To be a Pilgrim: Meeting the Needs of Visitors to Cathedrals and Churches in the United Kingdom
| ICOMOS-UK Research Findings, 2001 | ISBN: 0953535010 |
This publication is available as a free download. Please contact admin@icomos-uk.org
The Norwich Accord – Finding the Spirit of Place (2009)
This is a declaration articulating the relationship between conservation, communities and cultural tourism. It is based on research and evidence gathered over a three-year period by the ICOMOS-UK Cultural Tourism Committee.
Implementing the European Landscape Convention (2006)
This booklet was published following an ICOMOS-UK and IUCN UK invited workshop in 2006. It includes a ten-point action plan distilling key ideas from the workshop and suggests how opportunities presented by the European Landscape Convention might be put into practice.
Archive List of ICOMOS-UK Publications 1990 – 2001
This is a list of publications produced by ICOMOS-UK from 1990 to 2001. These publications are no longer for sale, but we may have archive copies for reference only. Please contact admin@icomos-uk.org
World Heritage
For information and links on World Heritage, please click here.