Summer has started time to go outside and visit your favourite heritage sites! Here are our picks of interesting topics in culture this month:
News
European Commission and Europa Nostra announce the winners of Europe’s top heritage awards 2025
Sustainability & Climate
Climate change is destroying Maine’s historic lighthouses
ICOMOS and IUCN Statement on Potentially Polluting Wrecks
Decolonisation/Conflict/Looting/Illicit Trafficking/Repatriation
Grand Egyptian Museum opening delayed again due to ‘current regional developments’
ICOM Calls to Safeguard Cultural Heritage in Ukraine
and more….
Interesting Reads
To help preserve her works, Cindy Sherman is offering to destroy and reprint old photographs
Time Odyssey: reimagining museum learning for children
Report maps why and how digital projects in the cultural sector fail
Report on the state of artistic freedom worldwide
Europeana calls for a heritage-led triple transition in Europe in Yearbook for Cultural Policy
Enhancing participation of Indigenous Peoples in World Heritage
Promoting media literacy: Museum of Australian Democracy launches campaign to fight fake news
XR in cultural heritage: AR, MR and VR explained
Publications
Hub publishes Fourth Policy Review on Cultural Heritage Alignment in the EU Enlargement Process
Opportunities
Data Synergy Call within the EU-funded project 3DBigDataSpace submission deadline has been extended to 30 June 2025
2025 Summer School on CIDOC CRM Interoperability and Applications
European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2026 are open for submissions
Open Call for Contributions: Commons and Commoning in/for Cultural Production
The Museum Summit: Call for Case Studies
Events
Museums + Heritage Show 2025 Session Recordings
Digital Heritage and the Global South
The Cultural Heritage Cloud Call 2025: Implementation Update
Sharing Local Stories webinar on connecting heritage and sustainable living through water
Big Stuff 2025: Skills and Machines – A Living Partnership 14/10/2025 – 17/10/2025, Ghent, Belgium
European Cultural Heritage Summit 2025, 12/10/2025 – 14/10/2025, Brussels, Belgium
NEMO’s European Museum Conference ‘Who cares? Museums, wellbeing, and resilience’, 26-28 October 2025 in Horsens, Denmark
Digitize. Transform. Inspire – Shaping the Archives of Tomorrow, Vienna (AT) from 1–2 September 2025
