Charters and other doctrinal texts

Written on 12 October 2011.

CHARTERS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF ICOMOS

(see also “Monuments and Sites” – vol. I, 2004) ICOMOS’ doctrinal texts are under the protection of the Creative Commons licence “Attribution-NonCommercial – CC BY-NC”. This license lets you remix, tweak, and build upon these docrtinal texts non-commercially, and although your new works must also acknowledge ICOMOS and be non-commercial, you don’t have to license your derivative works on the same terms.

• International Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites (The Venice Charter) – 1964 [French] [Spanish]
• Historic Gardens (The Florence Charter) – 1981 [French] [Spanish]
• Charter for the Conservation of Historic Towns and Urban Areas (The Washington Charter) – 1987 [French] [Spanish]
• Charter for the Protection and Management of the Archaeological Heritage – 1990 [French] [Spanish]
• Charter on the Protection and Management of the Underwater Cultural Heritage – 1996 [French] [Spanish]
• International Cutltural Tourism Charter – Managing Tourism at Places of Heritage Significance – [Français] 1999
• Principles for the Preservation of Historic Timber Structures – 1999 [French] [Spanish]
• Charter on the Built Vernacular Heritage – 1999 [French] [Spanish]
• ICOMOS Charter – Principles for the Analysis, Conservation and Structural Restoration of Architectural Heritage – 2003 [French] [Spanish]
• ICOMOS Principles for the Preservation and Conservation-Restoration of Wall Paintings– 2003 [French] [Spanish]
• ICOMOS Charter on Cultural Routes – 2008 [French] [Spanish]
• ICOMOS Charter on the Interpretation and Presentation of Cultural Heritage Sites – 2008 [French] [Spanish] [Chinese]
• Joint ICOMOS – TICCIH Principles for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage Sites, Structures, Areas and Landscapes – 2011 [French]
• The Valletta Principles for the Safeguarding and Management of Historic Cities, Towns and Urban Areas – 2011 [Arabic] [Chinese] [French] [Hebrew] [Hindi] [Italian] [Polish] [Portugese] [Russian] [Spanish] [Croatian/Serbian/Bosnian] Book in 5 languages: English, French, Greek, Spanish, Russian
• ICOMOS-IFLA principles concerning rural landscapes as heritage – 2017 [French]
• Document on historic urban public parks – 2017 [French]
• Salalah guidelines for the management of public archaeological sites – 2017 [French]
• Principles for the conservation of wooden built heritage – 2017 [French] [Spanish]
• ICOMOS Guidelines on Fortifications and Military Heritage – 2021 [French] [Spanish]

• 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]

• 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)

• 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