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ICOMOS unveiled Kerala Heritage Rescue Initiative: Details, Features, Aim, Purpose
ICOMOS unveiled Kerala Heritage Rescue Initiative: Details, Features, Aim, Purpose
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) launched Kerala Heritage Rescue Initiative to assess damage to rich cultural and built heritage sites in flood-devastated Kerala. ICOMOS is a global monument conservation body.
Kerala Heritage Rescue Initiative aims at setting up a platform for emergency response to cultural heritage damaged by the floods in Kerala. It also has set the Facebook page to collect information on the damage to buildings, museum collections, cultural artifacts, libraries, archives, and even intangible heritage.
Under this Kerala Heritage Rescue Initiative, ICOMOS will assess damage and risks to rich tangible, intangible, movable and immovable heritage that has been adversely affected by floods, including monuments, historic buildings, museum collections and artifacts of important significance. It will also create a heritage response team and train its members to undertake damage assessment and emergency measures.
ICOMOS has also approached International Centre for Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) to partner in post-disaster work. ICCROM based in Rome (Italy) is the inter-governmental organisation dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage worldwide through training, information, research, cooperation and advocacy programmes.
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
ICOMOS is a global monument conservation body (non-government organisation) dedicated to promoting the application of theory, methodology and scientific techniques for conservation of architectural and archaeological heritage across the world.
It is also the advisory body to UNESCO for cultural heritage, in particular for implementation of World Heritage Convention. It was founded in 1965 in Warsaw (Poland) as a result of the Venice Charter of 1964. It is headquartered in Paris, France.
