18 APRIL -  ICOMOS ‘INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR MONUMENTS AND SITES’ WILL CELEBRATE IN OUR UNIVERSITY

 
"18 April - International Monuments and Sites Day" is celebrated all over the world with the activities. Antalya Bilim University will also celebrate in the coordination with ICOMOS Turkey National Committee Member Asst. Prof. Dr. A. Esin Kuleli who is an academician in School of Fine Arts and Architecture, Department of Architecture with the participation of Asst. Prof. Dr. Hülya Aybek, Res. Asst. Esin Bölükbaş Dayı, Res. Asst. Nilay Başar, Res. Asst. Selin Akdeğirmen and Department of Architecture students.

Every year on 18 April, ICOMOS celebrates the “International Day for Monuments and Sites”, whose establishment was approved by the 22nd UNESCO General Conference in 1983. The 2018 theme for the day is: Heritage for Generations. So for the 2018 International Day for Monuments and Sites, Antalya Bilim University seeks to celebrate it and organizes activity that aims to raise awareness about the protection of cultural heritage: Inter-generational transfer of knowledge will take place among Harvard Kids Education Center the pre-school (5-6 years old) aged children an Antalya Bilim University students with the contribution of the Antalya Archaeological Museum Directorate.

The stories, which are prepared by Department of Architecture students, on selected historical places and monuments will be presented in music accompaniment and then young kids will be asked to fantasize their own stories on the selected historical monument by using paints or muds.

The program will be completed after singing songs on the amphitheater in the garden of the museum. Products such as pictures, photographs and videos produced during the event will be displayed later.

ICOMOS INTERNATIONAL website:

https://www.icomos.org/en/focus/18-april-international-day-for-monuments-and-sites/events2013#turkey