ARCH – The Alliance to Restore Cultural Heritage in Jerusalem was founded in 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland by a small group of academics. Our logo symbolizes the arches we extend towards alliance with individuals and organizations who share our aim to help protect vulnerable heritage in Jerusalem. We are an international team with wide ranging expertise – archaeology, interreligious relations and dialogue, illicit trafficking in cultural goods, international law and human rights law, the histories of apartheid and digital humanities. In 2012 ARCH was accredited as an NGO by the Chancellerie d’État, République et Canton de Genève.

Mahmoud Darwish, the great Palestinian poet, was disoriented by the changes wrought to Jerusalem.

In Jerusalem, and I mean within the ancient walls,
I walk from one epoch to another without a memory
to guide me.

ARCH serves as guide and guard of vulnerable cultural heritage in Jerusalem.