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ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) was founded in 1965 in Warsaw, one year after the signature
of the Venice Charter, the International Charter on the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites.
ICOMOS is the international, non-governmental organization, the branch of UNESCO.
ICOMOS works for the conservation and protection of cultural heritage places and promotes the theory, methodology
and scientific techniques applied to improving the preservation of cultural heritage, like: buildings, historic cities, archaeological sites or cultural landscapes. ICOMOS takes charge of entries on The World Heritage List and monitors polish cities,places and objects on The List.
The headquarter of the International Secretariat of ICOMOS is in Paris. ICOMOS brings together over 7500 members,
and exists already in more than 130 countries.
The members are interdisciplinary experts: architects, historians, archaeologists, art historians, geographers,
anthropologists, town planners and lawyers.
Polish National Committee ICOMOS brings together 140 the best polish experts work for the conservation
and protection of cultural heritage.
The purposes of PKN ICOMOS are: promotes polish attainments of preservation monuments, and improves international experiences of
conservation in Poland.
Since the beginning in 1965 the presidents PKN ICOMOS were: prof. Stanis豉w Lorentz (1965-1981), prof. Krzysztof Paw這wski (1981-1984), prof. Olgierd Czerner (1984-1993) and prof. Krzysztof Paw這wski (1993-2002), prof. Andrzej Tomaszewski (since 2003).
Nowadays The Presidium of PKN ICOMOS consists of:
President: prof. Andrzej Tomaszewski, Warsaw
Vice-president: prof. dr Ewa ㄆ篡niecka, Wroclaw
Vice-president: prof. Krzysztof Paw這wski, Warsaw
Vice-president: prof. Bogus豉w Szmygin, Lublin
Secretary General: dr. Andrzej Micha這wski, Warsaw
Second Secretary General: mgr kons. Ewa 安i璚ka, Warsaw
Treasurer: dr. Danuta K這sek - Koz這wska, Warsaw
The others members of Presidium:
prof. dr Stanis豉w Medeksza
prof. dr Zbigniew Paszkowski
dr. Ma貪orzata W這darczyk
Colleagues Judgement consists of:
prof. Maria Brykowska
prof. Bohdan Rymaszewski
mgr Jerzy 真rawski
dr. Zbigniew Beiersdorf
© 2005, PKN ICOMOS, autor: Katarzyna Pa逝bska