Charters and other doctrinal texts

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CHARTERS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF ICOMOS

(see also "Monuments and Sites" - vol. I, 2004)

Venice Charter and cultural heritage sites

• International Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites (Venice Charter) - 1964 [Arabic] [Bulgarian] [Czech] [Danish] [Dutch] [Estonian] [Finnish] [French] [Georgian] [German] [Greek] [Hebrew] [Hindi] [Hungarian] [Indonesian] [Italian] [Japanese] [Lithuanian] [Portuguese] [Romanian] [Russian] [Sinhala] [Spanish] [Swedish] [Thai] [Turkish] [Ukrainian]
  
• ICOMOS Charter on the Interpretation and Presentation of Cultural Heritage Sites - 2008 [Chinese] [French] [Spanish]

Archaeological heritage

• Charter for the Protection and Management of the Archaeological Heritage - 1990 [French] [Spanish]
• Salalah guidelines for the management of public archaeological sites - 2017 [French

 

Architectural heritage

• ICOMOS Charter – Principles for the Analysis, Conservation and Structural Restoration of Architectural Heritage - 2003 [French] [Spanish]

 

Cultural landscapes

• ICOMOS-IFLA principles concerning rural landscapes as heritage - 2017 [French]

Cultural routes

• ICOMOS Charter on Cultural Routes - 2008 [French] [Spanish]

Cultural tourism

• Charter of Cultural Tourism - 1976 [French] [Spanish]
  
• International Cultural Tourism Charter - Managing Tourism at Places of Heritage Significance - 1999 [French]
• ICOMOS International Cultural Heritage Tourism Charter - 2022 [Arabic] [Chinese] [Danish] [French] [Italian] [Spanish]

 

Historic cities, towns, villages and gardens

• Historic Gardens (Florence Charter) - 1981 [French] [Spanish]
• Charter for the Conservation of Historic Towns and Urban Areas (Washington Charter) - 1987 [French] [Spanish]
• Valletta Principles for the Safeguarding and Management of Historic Cities, Towns and Urban Areas - 2011 [Arabic] [Chinese] [Croatian/Serbian/Bosnian] [French] [Hebrew] [Hindi] [Italian] [Polish] [Portuguese] [Russian] - Book in 5 languages: English, French, Greek, Spanish, Russian
• Document on historic urban public parks - 2017 [French]

 

Industrial heritage

• Joint ICOMOS – TICCIH Principles for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage Sites, Structures, Areas and Landscapes (Dublin Principles) - 2011 [French]

 

Military heritage

• ICOMOS Guidelines on Fortifications and Military Heritage - 2021 [French] [Spanish]

Mural paintings

• ICOMOS Principles for the Preservation and Conservation-Restoration of Wall Paintings - 2003 [French] [Spanish]

 

Polar heritage

•  ICOMOS Antarctic Archaeological Guidelines - 2022 [French] [Russian] [Spanish]

 

Underwater cultural heritage

• Charter on the Protection and Management of the Underwater Cultural Heritage - 1996 [French] [Spanish]

 

Vernacular architecture

• Charter on the Built Vernacular Heritage - 1999 [French] [Spanish]

Wood

• Principles for the Preservation of Historic Timber Structures - 1999 [French] [Spanish]
• Principles for the conservation of wooden built heritage - 2017 [French] [Spanish]

 

RESOLUTIONS AND DECLARATIONS

• Resolutions of the Symposium on the introduction of contemporary architecture into ancient groups of buildings, at the 3rd ICOMOS General Assembly (1972)
  
• Resolutions of the International Symposium on the Conservation of Smaller Historic Towns, at the 4th ICOMOS General Assembly (1975)
  
• Tlaxcala Declaration on the Revitalization of Small Settlements (1982)
  
• Declaration of Dresden on the "Reconstruction of Monuments Destroyed by War" (1982) 
  
• Declaration of Rome (1983) 
  
• Guidelines for Education and Training in the Conservation of Monuments, Ensembles and Sites (1993) [French]
  
• The Nara Document on Authenticity (1994) [French]
  
• The Declaration of San Antonio (1996)
  
• Principles for the recording of monuments, groups of buildings and sites (1996) [French]
• The Stockholm Declaration : Declaration of ICOMOS marking the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1998) [French]
  
• Xi'an Declaration on the Conservation of the Setting of Heritage Structures, Sites and Areas  (2005) [French] [Spanish] [Portuguese]
• The Quebec Declaration on the Preservation of the Spirit of the Place (2008) [French] [Portuguese]
• Lima Declaration for Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage (2010) [Spanish]
  
• The Paris Declaration On heritage as a driver of development (2011) [French]
• Florence Declaration (2014) [English] [French] [Italian] 
• Delhi Declaration on Heritage and Democracy (2017) [English] [French - upcoming]
• Buenos Aires Declaration marking the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2018) [French]

 

CHARTERS ADOPTED BY ICOMOS NATIONAL COMMITTEES

• Principles for the Conservation of Heritage Sites in China: English language translation, with Chinese text, of the document issued by China ICOMOS. 2nd Printing with revision. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2004. Download from: http://openarchive.icomos.org/1650/ 
• Indonesia Charter for Heritage Conservation / Piagam Pelestarian Pusaka Indonesia (ICOMOS Indonesia) - 2003
• The Australia ICOMOS Charter for the Conservation of Places of Cultural Significance - (The Burra Charter) (Australia ICOMOS) - 1981, updated in 2013 - [French] [Spanish][Indonesian] 
• Charter for the Preservation of Quebec's Heritage (Deschambault Declaration) (ICOMOS Canada) [French]
• Appleton Charter for the Protection and Enhancement of the Built Environment (ICOMOS Canada) - 1983  [French]
• First Brazilian Seminar About the preservation and Revitalization of Historic Centers (ICOMOS Brazil) - 1987
• Charter for the Conservation of Places of Cultural Heritage Value (ICOMOS New Zealand, text revised and approved by the Executive Board of ICOMOS NZ on 4 September 2010)
• ICOMOS-Spain Charter for the Integrated Management of Prehistoric Rock Art and its Landscapes (Alicante Charter) - 2023 [Spanish]
  

 

OTHER INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS

• Athens Charter for the Restoration of Historic Monuments (Athens Conference, 21-30 October 1931) [French]
• Final Report of the Meeting on the Preservation and Utilization of Monuments and Sites of Artistic and historical Value held in Quito, Ecuador, 1967
• Declaration of Amsterdam (Congress on the European Architectural Heritage, 21-25 October 1975) [French]
• European Charter of the Architectural Heritage (Council of Europe, October 1975) [French]
• UNESCO Convention and Recommendations