Category: Press Releases

Group photo of ceremony participants in front of the Museum. Photo: Spektroom

Europe’s top heritage award presented to employees and activists of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Employees and activists of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, BiH

Employees and activists of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina will be honoured on 21 October

Belgium: Conversion of De Hoorn Brewery into a creative hub celebrated

The ceremony for the programme ‘Adopt a Monument’, a Grand Prix winner of the EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award 2016, Europe’s highest honour in the field, was held on 9 September at the Museum Centre Vapriikki in Tampere.

Finland celebrates success of ‘Adopt a Monument’ in the European Heritage Awards

Photo: Banner for the European Year of Cultural Heritage.

European Commission publishes proposal for the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018

Winner of a EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award 2016

Serbia: Conservation study of Village Gostuša receives European Heritage Award on 31/08

On the afternoon of 7 August 2016, European Commissioner for Culture Tibor Navracsics and Europa Nostra’s President Plácido Domingo were in Budapest to pay a special visit to the Liszt Academy of Music and to celebrate the exemplary rehabilitation of its Art Nouveau building, which won a Grand Prix of the EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards in 2015.

Plácido Domingo and EU Commissioner Navracsics Present Europe’s top heritage award to the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest

7ME 2016 Mission to Ererouyk-Anipemza, Armenia

European heritage and financial experts visit Ererouyk and Anipemza, Armenia

Plantu and Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, holding the cartoon ‘Europe: Today everything is possible’, 18 November 2015, Brussels. Photo: Courtesy of Plantu

French cartoonist Plantu and Portuguese philosopher Eduardo Lourenço win Helena Vaz Da Silva European Award 2016

Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi, Irina Bokova, Sada Mire and Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailović. Photo: Europa Nostra

UNESCO’s Director-General Irina Bokova: “The Protection of Heritage Has Become a Humanitarian Imperative and Security Issue”