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Winter 1996

Milestones, Winter 1996

On May 23, 1996, WMF president Bonnie Burnham presented the first thirty-four World Monuments Watch grants at a special dinner in New York. This followed the announcement in March of the World Monuments Fund List of IOO Most Endangered Sites, a first-ever 'endangered species list' of...Read more
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August 1996

Death of a Moai

Dr. A. Elena Charola, consultant to the World Monuments Fund Easter Island Program, reports on the creation, installation and mechanisms of deterioration for the large stone sculptures, or moai, and associated petroglyphs carved of Rano Raraku tuff. Weathering from exposure to wind and water,...Read more
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Chile
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Easter Island (Rapa Nui)—Moai Conservation Project, Easter Island (Rapa Nui)—Orongo, Easter Island (Rapa Nui)—Rano Raraku
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1996

World Monuments Fund: The First Thirty Years

Tracing the origins of World Monuments Fund (WMF) to 1965, this publication explains how James A. Gray, a retired U.S. Army Colonel, created the non-profit, New York-based International Fund for Monuments, the first private organization to focus on the conservation of important buildings,...Read more
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Spring 1996

Milestones, Spring 1996

The World Monuments Fund's restoration, completed in 1992, of the templet and garden of the Mudejar Cloister at the Royal Monastery of Guadalupe has won a 1995 Europa Nostra Prize. The principal cloister of the monastery established under royal patronage in 1341 and constructed through the...Read more
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1996

1996 World Monuments Watch

Every two years since 1996, the World Monuments Watch has focused global attention on cultural heritage sites around the world that are facing such dangers and that illuminate current issues in the field of heritage preservation.Read more
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