
Registration for the “Protecting Cultural Property: The 1954 Hague Convention at 70” Conference presented by USCBS, the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts, and the Responsible Art Market is now live!
Please click here to register for the March 1st event. The full program is displayed above, and you may choose between in-person or virtual registration.
Latest News & Alerts
July 23, 2026
The Museum Conservation Institute-Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (MCI-SCRI), along with the Virginia Museum of Natural History’s Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab (CHML), Penn Cultural Heritage Center, Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab, and the University of Maryland’s Center for International [...]
July 10, 2026
The site of Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America, is rich in archaeological material. Archaeologists are continually finding artifacts belonging to the English settlers, the Powhatan people, and Africans who were enslaved [...]
July 2, 2026
Reuters has released a visual investigation special report about the damage to Iran's historic sites. Within this extensive report, authors Maggie Michael, M.B. Pell, Mari Saito, and Ryan McNeill include quotes from USCBS President, Patty Gerstenblith, [...]


