Experiences of The World Monuments Fund in Balancing Interpretation With Preservation Presentation

World Monuments Fund
Experiences of the World Monuments Fund in

Balancing Interpretation with Preservation
Session 3: Case Studies
WMF Overview
US/ICOMOS 8th International Symposium,

Charleston, South Carolina, 5-8 May, 2005
World Monuments Fund Overview
• Founded in 1965
• 250 conservation projects in 80
countries
• New York headquarters + Affiliates in
France, United Kingdom, Spain,
Portugal and Italy
• Project planning, field surveys,
fieldwork, on-site training in the
building crafts, and advocacy

• World Monuments Watch Program

• American Express
• Kress Foundation European
Preservation Program
• Jewish Heritage Program
• Robert W. Wilson Challenge to
Conserve our Heritage

• Restoring physical fabric is not enough

• Sustainable conservation must include
larger context: Nature + Culture
• WMF provides expertise in conservation
and forges partnerships with experts in
other areas
• Community participation is essential
• WMF initiatives must serve as catalysts
for long-term preservation
South America
• Lack of economic
resources
• Political and
economic instability
• Identity crisis and
globalization
• Demographic
pressure
Case Studies

The Chiloe Churches - Chile




Orongo, Easter Island - Chile




Huaca de la Luna - Peru



Jesuit Guarani Missions –
Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay


• The value of the Missions is in the sum of their parts;
• They provide a chance to strengthen relations between
countries;
• A common vision based on integrated management plans
that address cultural heritage, as well as its social and
geographical environment is needed;
• Specific management plans, country-level administrative
plans and regional plans are necessary;
• Human resources in the region must be strengthened by
increasing their abilities, creating multi-disciplinary and
inter-institutional teams, and presenting a wide-ranging view
of research, conservation and management of the heritage
sites;
• Increased coordination between countries is required to
guarantee the sustainability of this heritage;
• Research, conservation and management of the missions
must have a favorable and direct impact on the community.

• establish the concept of the Jesuit Guaraní missions both as a
group and as individual entities;
• develop and transmit a global communication for the entire system,
as well as a specific communication for each town;
• promote the special features and particular attractions of each site;
these sites complement one another, and are in no way competitive;
• develop cultural products from the cultural resources available;
• Implement pilot projects;
• devise a full-scale cultural tourism development plan for each one of
the sites chosen as pilot sites and the features of the circuit or
itinerary;
• promote awareness of the need for the sustainable development of
cultural tourism, through training and education of site staff;
• include the “Missions Program” in a route bordered by the
waterfalls to the north, and Colonia del Sacramento and Buenos
Aires to the south. Such a program would entail the revaluation of
the final course of the Uruguay River, once known as the “River of
the Jesuits.”

“Capacity Building Program
for the Conservation,
Management and
Sustainable Development of
the Jesuit Guarani Missions”
• Archaeology
• Conservation of cultural
resources
• Conservation of natural resources
• Site management
• Public use: tourism, education,
services and infrastructure
• Research & documentation

Conclusions
• Community
participation
• Economic
development
• Site management
• Site presentation
• Private sector
participation

Experiences of the World Monuments Fund in

Balancing Interpretation with Preservation
Session 3: Case Studies
Egypt and India
US/ICOMOS 8th International Symposium,

Charleston, South Carolina, 5-8 May, 2005
Introduction
Regional Initiatives and Partnerships in
Luxor, Egypt and Jaisalmer, India

Preserving and Presenting Cultural
Heritage Sites
Valley of the Kings and Jaisalmer Fort

Addressing Common Problem Types

The WMF City of Ancient Thebes
Conservation Initiative

Partnerships and Field Projects

Valley of the King’s Master Plan
and Signage Project:
A Tool for Site Management, Conservation
and Preservation

Valley of the King’s Tomb Damage
and
WMF/TMP Conservation and Presentation Project

Valley of the King’s Signage Project




Visitor Survey
and
Improved Site Conditions

Queen’s Palace Heritage Interpretation
Center, Jaisalmer Fort, India:
Preserving and presenting the cultural traditions of
the only “living” fort city in India

Problems and Challenges:
Aging Infrastructure and Water Management

Rock Mechanics and Failures

Uncontrolled Growth and More Failures

Jaisalmer Heritage
Interpretation Center at the
Rani Ka Mahal (Queen’s Palace)

Jaisalmer Heritage
Interpretation Center
Palace Museum and Visitor Orientation

Jaisalmer Heritage
Traditional Arts/Crafts Training Center

Jaisalmer Heritage
Traditional Stone Carving

Jaisalmer Heritage

On-going Partnerships and Field
Work

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