The 2025 World Monuments Watch is a nomination-driven initiative that links local heritage conservation efforts with worldwide recognition and action, garnering support for endangered sites and their caretakers while highlighting contemporary challenges and communities globally utilizing heritage to tackle today’s critical issues, with nominations accepted until March 15, 2024.
The 2025 World Monuments Watch invites nominations for heritage places facing urgent challenges and where preservation can bring transformative change and creative solutions.
Heritage places hold great meaning for individuals and communities around the globe. They are sources of inspiration, memory, and identity, as well as places where people live, work, worship, play, and create. Yet in our dynamic and rapidly changing world, these places can face numerous threats. Experienced locally, such threats often resonate with pressures to heritage across our planet—from unsustainable tourism and unchecked urbanization to natural disasters and climate change. At the same time, heritage holds huge potential to address contemporary societal needs. It can enhance resilience, drive sustainable development, and foster mutual understanding across peoples and cultures. In a world grappling with many shared challenges—from environmental degradation to persistent inequalities to human conflict to forced migration, among others—the ingenuity of local solutions can resonate far beyond the bounds of a single community.
Recognizing the breadth of challenges affecting places and people around the world, the Watch seeks nominations that highlight how heritage preservation can respond today and help build a stronger future.
Source: Nominate a site to the 2025 Watch | World Monuments Fund
