emergency response

The Cappella della Sindone Fire in Turin: When Restoration, Temporary Uses, and Fire Load Turn a Masterpiece into a Catastroph

Scientific Department March 27, 2026

The 1997 Turin fire shows how fragile heritage buildings become when temporary installations, electrical uncertainty, and delayed detection meet a...

KulturGutRetter CHRU team during the first full-scale exercise at Demerthin Castle (25-28 Sep 2024), simulating earthquake damage assessment.

Germany’s KulturGutRetter: Pioneering the First UCPM Cultural Heritage Response Unit (CHRU)

Scientific Department February 23, 2026

Summary Germany’s KulturGutRetter pioneers the first UCPM Cultural Heritage Response Unit (CHRU)—a self-sufficient team for rapid protection of cultural assets...

Notre Dame Fire: What we Know About

Scientific Department April 27, 2019 0

The fire at Notre-Dame de Paris on 15 April 2019 remains one of the most significant heritage losses of the...

emergency response

The Cappella della Sindone Fire in Turin: When Restoration, Temporary Uses, and Fire Load Turn a Masterpiece into a Catastroph

Germany’s KulturGutRetter: Pioneering the First UCPM Cultural Heritage Response Unit (CHRU)

Notre Dame Fire: What we Know About

Safety or Erasure? The Politics of Heritage in Tibetan Monasteries

The Vulnerability of the “Open Door”: Managing Intentional Fires in Public Heritage Spaces

Saving the Soul of a Nation: Multi-Agency Coordination in Heritage Recovery Following the Central Italy Earthquakes

Rural Wooden Churches: Fire Risk, Isolation and Resilience

UNESCO’s June 2026 Actions in Ukraine and the Persistent Gap in Cultural Heritage Emergency Planning

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