C4 – Commission C4 World Heritage and Astronomy

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The Commission works on behalf of the IAU together with UNESCO to implement the Astronomy and World Heritage Thematic Initiative.

This site is currently under development, as are pages for the new Working Groups. In the meantime, please see the Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy for all information relating to the Initiative.: 

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Commission Members (129)


Under Division

Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage

Commission Working Groups

Commission C4 WG Astronomical Heritage in Danger
Commission C4 WG Windows to the Universe: Classical and Modern Observatories
Inter-Commission C1-C2-C3-C4 WG Astronomy in Culture (WGAC)
Inter-Commission C1-C3-C4 WG Ethnoastronomy and Intangible Astronomical Heritage


Juan Antonio Belmonte Aviles

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
C/ Vía Láctea s/n
38200 La Laguna, Tenerife
Spain

Phone: +34 922 605 265
Organization website: http://www.iac.es/

NCA adherence: Spain

Last updated:
November 20, 2023

Michael G. Burton

Armagh Observatory and Planetarium
College Hill
Armagh BT61 9DG
Northen Ireland
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 02837523689
Personal website: https://armagh.space/mburton/
Organization website: http://www.armagh.ac.uk

NCA adherence: United Kingdom

Last updated:
November 20, 2023

Lydia Sonia Cidale

FCAG/UNLP
University of La Plata - Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas
Paseo del Bosque s/n
La Plata (Bs As) 1900
Buenos Aires
Argentina

Phone: +54 221 423 6593
Organization website: http://www.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar

NCA adherence: Argentina

Last updated:
November 20, 2023

Gudrun B. E. Wolfschmidt

Hamburg University, Center for history of science and technology
Department of Physics, Hamburg Observatory
Bundesstr 55 Geomatikum
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany

Phone: +49 040-42838 5262
Personal website: https://www.fhsev.de/Wolfschmidt/
Organization website: https://www.fhsev.de/Wolfschmidt/GNT/home-wf.htm

NCA adherence: Germany

Last updated:
November 20, 2023

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