The World Monuments Fund (WMF) is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of historic art and architecture worldwide through fieldwork, advocacy, grantmaking, education, and training. Since 1965, the New York-based World Monuments Foundation has worked with local communities and partners to stem the loss of more than 420 irreplaceable sites in 80 countries including the Temple of Preah Khan at Angkor. Beginning in 1996 with the support of American Express, WMF has published biennially the World Monuments Watch list of 100 Most Endangered Sites. A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ... Preservation is a broad term, applying in several areas where items are preserved or conserved in some manner. ... Resources Great Museums in the World (Louvre, Metropolitan Museum, MoMA, Picasso …) CGFA: A Virtual Art Museum Art-Atlas. ... Architecture (in Greek αρχή = first and τέχνη = craftsmanship) is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Preah Khan at Angkor, Cambodia was built in 1191 AD as a center of learning and Buddhist monastery during the rule of Jayavarman VII. It covers 56 hectares (560,000 m²), two kilometers northeast of Angkor Thom. ... Angkor was the site of a series of capital cities of the Khmer empire for much of the period from the 9th century to the 15th century CE. Their ruins (13°24N, 103°51E) are located amid forests and farmland to the north of the Great Lake (Tonle... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... American Express (NYSE: AXP) is a diversified global financial services company headquartered in the United States. ... Look up Biennial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Biennial is a term referring to a period of two years, much in the same way centennial refers to 100 years. ...

The latest list included sites such as:

• 2 Columbus Circle
• Historic Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States
• The Great Wall of China, China
• The Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt
• St. Pierre de Beauvais Cathedral, France
• The Cinque Terre, Liguria, Italy
• Selby Abbey and Brading Roman Villa, England
• Nineveh Palace, Iraq
• Petra, Jordan
• Watson's Hotel, Mumbai (Bombay), India

The modernist building at 2 Columbus Circle (1962) in New York City, USA rises 12 stories from a small, trapezoidal lot on the south side of Columbus Circle in Manhattan. ... Manhattan is an island bordering the lower Hudson River. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture. ... The Great Wall of China (Traditional Chinese: 長城; Simplified Chinese: 长城; pinyin: ), also known in China as the Great Wall of 10,000 Li¹ (Traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; Simplified Chinese: 万里长城; pinyin: ), is an ancient Chinese fortification built from the end of the 15th century until the beginning of the 16th century, during the Ming... Valley of the Kings The Valley of the Kings, or Wadi el-Muluk (وادي الملوك) in Arabic, is a valley in Egypt where tombs were built for the Pharaohs of the New Kingdom, the Eighteenth through Twentieth Dynasties. ... For the ancient capital of Boeotia, see Thebes, Greece. ... The Cinque Terre are five carfree coastal villages in the province of La Spezia in Italy. ... Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. ... Selby Abbey is one of the relatively few surviving abbey churches of the medieval period, and, although not a cathedral, is one of the biggest. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... The Treasury at Petra Petra (rock in Greek) is an archaeological site in Jordan, lying in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Wadi Araba, the great valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. ... Watsons Hotel also known as Esplanade Mansions is Indias earliest surviving cast iron building located in Kala Ghoda area of Bombay (Mumbai). ... Mumbai (Marathi: मुम़बई IPA: ), formerly known as Bombay (IPA: ), is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and is the most populous Indian city. ...

External links

• World Monuments Fund home page
• American Express - World Monuments Fund