ICOMOS-UK Summer Outing & AGM

 Open Air Museums and Society 3rd-5th July 2009 at St Fagans National History Museum (near Cardiff) Part of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales St Teilo’s Church, St Fagans © St Fagans: National History Museum Some of the presentations are now available online – see below. The 2009 ICOMOS-UK Summer meeting and AGM took place at St Fagans National [...]

OLD NEED NOT BE COLD

19th-20th May 2009 Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, London  This groundbreaking two-day conference takes as its focus how our built heritage can address the challenge of climate change. Leading experts will provide perspectives on how historic buildings can sensibly and realistically meet the challenge of global warming. Delegates will have the opportunity to view an exhibition [...]

Bath School plan dropped

Sir James Dyson on 7 October scrapped plans for a  £56 million School of Design Innovation in Bath at the old Stothert and Pitt site at South Quays within the City of Bath World Heritage site, which the forthcoming UNESCO/ICOMOS joint mission was to have considered. The Bath Chronicle reported that Dyson abandoned his plan [...]