International Council on Monuments and Sites
Website: www.icomos.org
Twitter: @ICOMOS
ICOMOS works for the conservation and protection of cultural heritage places. It is the only global non-government organisation of this kind, which is dedicated to promoting the application of theory, methodology, and scientific techniques to the conservation of the architectural and archaeological heritage.
The members of ICOMOS, among which are architects, historians, archaeologists, art historians, geographers, anthropologists, engineers and town planners, contribute to improving the preservation of heritage, the standards and the techniques for each type of cultural heritage property : buildings, historic cities, cultural landscapes and archaeological sites