The Swiss Society for Cultural Property Protection (SSPCP)

was founded on 14 Mai 1964, ten years after the signature of the 1954-Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in times of armed conflict.

Our aim is to assist Federal, Cantonal and Municipal authorities in their duty to protect the cultural heritage of Switzerland. The society is active in all parts of the country and purues its objectives in confesssional and political neutrality.

We would like to

• promote knowledge about and pleasure of cultural property
• sensitize a larger public for the need to protect cultural property
• assist the authorities in instruction and training of firebrigades, armed forces, police, civil defence, safeguard of monuments, industry, construction sector and private persons
• transmit information and consulting advices to private owners of cultural property
• cooperate actively in international efforts to protect cultural property worldwide