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California Lighthouse is open again!
The California Lighthouse is open again for public after two months of being close for maintenance. The maintenance works were mostly on the interior of the lighthouse. The wooden stair and windows were repaired, and the walls plastered and painted with Lime. The biggest change is the installation of a railing. Monuments fund Aruba (SMFA) […]
Read more >Conservation of the watertank in Rancho
In 2020 Monuments Fund Aruba finalized the restoration of the Lime Kiln. The project was combined with a course about the use of lime on historic buildings. Now SMFA will start working on the plans for the conservation of the Water Tank in the neighborhood of Rancho. In the case of the water tanks SMFA [...] Read more >Monumentsfund Aruba will be celebrating its 25th anniversary next year
2020 was a year with challenges for Aruba but also for Stichting Monumentenfonds Aruba (SMFA). Many things changed due to the Covid-19 crisis and this was no exception for the Monument Funds. Despite the difficult situation the foundation was able to finalize some projects which are of great importance to maintaining the monuments of Aruba. […]
Read more >Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments Aruba 2020
In September in connection with monuments month, Monumentsfund Aruba organized the fifth edition of Wiki Loves Monuments. Wiki Loves monuments is a photography competition with the goal to document monuments around the world. A total of fifty-three countries participated this year. Every country organizes its own local competition and nominees its ten best photographs to […]
Read more >Wiki Loves Monuments Aruba is back!
Wiki Loves Monuments Aruba 2020 Wiki Loves Monuments Aruba is being organized by Monumentsfund Aruba. The Monuments Fund of Aruba (SMFA) is engaged in the financing of restoration and maintenance, management and operation of protected monuments and is the financial institution in the field of heritage conservation. SMFA promotes awareness of monuments and contributes to […]
Read more >A new destination for the Yellow House
A new destination for the Yellow House, The monument at Weststraat 15, popularly known as: Yellow House, Numismatic Museum, Aruba Bank House or Arina, will have a new destination under the name Patio 15. On Friday July 3rd, Stichting Monumentenfonds Aruba (SMFA) signed a lease with Experitours during the presentation of the Patio 15 project. [...] Read more >Monuments Fund Aruba signs agreement with Rancho Foundation
On Friday 3rd of July, Monuments Fund Aruba (SMFA) celebrated the termination of the Lime Kiln restoration project in Rancho and a user agreement was signed with the Rancho Foundation. Starting today the Rancho Foundation can make free use of the lime kiln for their walking tours. For years, the Rancho Foundation has been committed to […]
Read more >Monumentsfund Aruba celebrates its 24th anniversary
Twenty-four years ago, Monuments fund Aruba (SMFA) was funded with the goal to purchase, restore and maintain monumental buildings of Aruba. The first project SMFA financed was the restoration of the City Hall and the Ex Hotel Colombia. After twenty-four years SMFA currently owns thirteen monumental buildings and three objects. These last years we have [...] Read more >Uncle Louis Store participating for ‘Pieter van Vollenhovenprijs’
The Pieter van Vollenhoven Prize is an annually recurring prize to a private individual or organization that has taken up the challenge of preserving a monumental building in the Dutch Kingdom by giving it a new destination. In 2013 the prize was presented to Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven on his retirement after a 27-year chairmanship […]
Read more >Monuments Fund Aruba projects on the Fast Track projects list
Monuments Fund Aruba (SMFA) proposed some projects to the government of Aruba to be on the Fast Track projects list. Some of the projects SMFA has been working on for a long time already some are in a very advanced phase and some in the feasibility study phase. The main goal is to get these […]
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