FARO, Flemish Institution for cultural heritage

We work for and with heritage workers within archives, heritage libraries, heritage cells, organisations that focus on intangible cultural heritage, heritage service providers, and museums. Our services also extend to target groups such as policymakers and municipal culture and heritage services. 

Together we can achieve more. We purposely bring together people with a wide variety of expertise. We play a central role in putting current heritage issues on the agenda of policy and society. We organise practice-oriented heritage training programmes, and offer advice as well as tailored guidance. We also offer further information, general as well as in-depth, through our specialist library, by means of our quarterly faro journal, and of course also on our detailed website.

We continuously develop and expand our knowledge and expertise and we invest in practice-oriented research. This enables us to share national and international views, insights and practices with our partners. Erfgoedwijzer is one of the many good examples of this. 

We work together with the cultural heritage sector in Flanders and Brussels to highlight the rich and diverse cultural heritage landscape. We are the driving force behind the annual Erfgoeddag (Heritage Day) as well as the Heritage App, and we explore media partnerships. 

You can find out more about our mission, vision, values and the competences assigned to us by decree here. You can find a summary of our policy plan for 2019-2023 on our website as well.