'Eurominority, the website of stateless nations and minority peoples in Europe, has an interactive map featuring Europe’s ethnic, national, linguistic, and cultural minorities.'

'The World Digital Library makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English more...

The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, archi­tectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-Eng more...

The Chinese New Year is a fifteen day celebration that falls on a different date each year as it is a combination of lunar and solar movements. It usually falls in the month of January or February. This year marks the 'Year of the Ox'.

The Chinese New Year's date varies every year and falls on second new moon after the winter solstice. The date for the occasion is decided according to the calendar which is a combination of the solar and the lunar calendar. Rat, Ox, tiger, rabbit, cat, dragon, more...

The UNESCO Future Forum held a session on this topic on 2 March 2009 at UNESCO Headquarters. Its purpose was to reflect on the ramifications of the present financial and economic crisis and their implications for international cooperation in general and in particular for UNESCO’s domains, namely education, the sciences, culture, communication and information.

The one-day event had three goals:

* Provide the Secretariat, Member States of UNESCO, media, NGOs and the public at large wit more...

'AfricaNow is an innovative collaboration of modern home decor and accessories celebrating the fusion of African art and life.

Inspired by authentic African cultures with a contemporary influence, products include contemporary and traditional jewelry, accessories, home textiles and furnishings, whimsical holiday ornaments, baskets, wood, ceramics, and more.'

The perfect planner for all those with a passion for World Heritage.
The UNESCO World Heritage Desk Diary 2009 features a helpful week-at-a-glance design. It is illustrated with 79 colour photos of World Heritage sites, each accompanied by a short caption.
The diary also introduces the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage: its objectives, the selection criteria, the institutions which ensure its implementation, as well as a list of sites and states that a more...

By Weston Naef, J. Paul Getty Museum.
All the grandeur of the American West in the mid-nineteenth century is reflected in this selection of 'mammoth,' or large-format, photographs made by Carleton Watkins in or around Yosemite Valley, California. This fully illustrated book, produced to accompany the exhibition Dialogue among Giants on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum October 14, 2008, to March 1, 2009, takes us on a tour of the great Yosemite Valley from the view at Inspiration Point to the p more...

International Polar Heritage Committee. One of the IPHC’s network of experts, Dr. Richard Mackay has contributed an interesting chapter to a book published recently by Australian Scholarly Publishing. The book “Object Lessons – Archaeology and Heritage in Australia”, edited by Jane Lydon and Tracy Ireland, contains a series of case studies that include a very interesting polar related contribution by Mackay entitled: “Ice, Icon and Identity: The Meaning of Mawson’s Huts”. This giv more...

ICOMOS Publications - Compiled and edited for the International Polar Heritage Committee of ICOMOS by Susan Barr and Paul Chaplin.