Limoges: When Protest Becomes a Fire Risk to Heritage 
The Antonello da Messina Heist and the Security Paradox: When Systems Work but Management Fails 
When Fire Strikes the Memory of Lesser-known Communities 
The Uffizi Cyberattack: a Warning for Heritage Institutions, but not a simple story 
March 2026 War Damage: Drone Strikes Devastate Cultural Heritage in Ukraine, Iran, Israel & Lebanon 
Climate Change and Museums: a Book About Indoor Risks
updated February 2026 Climate change is reshaping the design, operation, and risk profile of museum buildings worldwide. Among the extensive...
STORM Academy 2019: Interdisciplinary Training on Cultural Heritage and Climate Risk Management
updated February 2026 As part of the EU-funded STORM project (Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Technical and Organisational Resources Management) the...
EFDRR 2018 Rome: Sendai Framework’s Cultural Heritage Legacy – 2026 Review
Updated February 2026 The European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction (EFDRR), Europe's regional arm of the UNDRR (formerly UNISDR), convened...
UNESCO and World Bank on Cultural Heritage and Reconstruction: A Critical Analysis of the CURE Framework
CURE (Culture in City Reconstruction and Recovery) is a position paper published in 2018 by UNESCO and the World Bank...
Is Europe Ready for Climate Impact on Cultural Heritage?
Updated February 2026 On 12 November 2018 the European Commission published the news item “Europe is ready for climate impacts:...
A Toolkit for Cultural Heritage by War Risks
Updated January 2026 Introduction In October 2018, ICCROM (the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of...
Emergency Evacuation of Heritage Collections: an ICCROM-UNESCO Handbook
The protection of cultural heritage aims first of all to prevent dangerous events from turning into unacceptable risks for collections and sites....
Vegetation Fires and Cultural Heritage: the Getty Museum Case
On December 5th, 2017, a large brush fire in California has forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people and...
A Pioneering Fire Protection System: Saint Paul Outside the Walls
In the night of July 15th, 1823, a fire destroyed a large part of the Papal Basilica of St. Paul...
Complexity of Rescue in Historic Towns Operations after Earthquakes
A scene after seismic events of a USAR operation in a historic town in Italy (credits: National Fire Service -...
First Aid to Cultural Heritage in the STORM Summer School
Protecting Cultural Heritage form disasters needs different actions, one of the more important of which is to make aware stakeholders...
Wildfire Threats to Cultural Heritage: Insights from the STORM Project
Editor's Note (February 2026): This article, originally published in September 2017, remains highly relevant as wildfire threats to cultural heritage...
An insight on Water Mist and Cultural Heritage fire protection
According to the NFPA 750 (Standard on Water Mist Fire Protection Systems) definition, water mist is a water spray for...
USDA on the Effects of Fire on Cultural Resources and Archaeology
On May 2012 the United States the Department of Agricolture (USDA) has published the Technical Report: Wildland Fire in Ecosystems...
Fire Risks and New Threats from Climate Change to Libraries and Archives
The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published in 2012 a document which is "an indicator-based assessment of past and projected...
UAVs to Save Cultural Heritage in Emergency Scenarios
Protecting cultural heritage during and after a disaster is a crucial objective for emergency services. Situational awareness is essential and...
The ABC Method to Approach Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Emergencies
Risks to cultural heritage vary from catastrophic events (such as earthquakes, floods, etc) to gradual processes (such as chemical, physical,...
LiDAR and Cultural Heritage in Emergency Operations
The project STORM (Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Technical and Organisational Resources Management) has been funded by the Horizon 2020 EU...
Disasters And Historic Buildings: the Need for a Common Data Protocol
On April 6, 2009, the Historic city of L'Aquila, experienced a devastating earthquake, resulting in 309 fatalities, over 1,600 injuries,...
Damages to Cultural Heritage Caused by 24th August 2016 Central Italy Earthquake
On August 24th, 2016 a severe earthquake has hit an area in Central Italy approximately among the city of Amatrice and...
Saving Heritage at Risk – Remembering the 1966 Florence Flooding
On November 4th 1966 a flash flood caused in central Italy 47 deaths, hundreds of injured and 46,000 displaced people and...
19th Century Manhattan Church Destroyed by fire in New York (USA)
The New York Serbian Orthodox Cathedral od St. Sava on West 25th Street on May 1st has been destroyed by...
