The Wiki Loves Monuments competition happens again in September.
The world’s largest photography competition Wiki Loves Monuments will be held again in September from September 1–30, 2026.
This year’s theme is Heritage at Risk (in Finnish Vaalimisen arvoiset), which is also the annual theme of the European Heritage Days. The theme invites you to photograph endangered built cultural heritage that is facing change or disappearance. Large-scale tearing down currently poses a clear threat to our built heritage. Photographs may also show how a once-endangered built environment has been given new use, repaired and cared for.
We especially encourage you to take pictures of previously unphotographed places or buildings. They are marked with red on the map.
How to participate
You can participate in the Wiki Loves Monuments competition with photographs depicting human-made spaces, landscapes, or buildings, provided that they display a protected building or a cultural heritage site otherwise defined as valuable. You can find these sites on the map of the competition.
Upload images to Wikimedia Commons between 1 and 30 September to join the competition. In Wikimedia Commons, the images will be freely available under a Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license for anyone to use. You can participate with images you have taken yourself during 2026 or earlier.
Suggest photography subjects to us
We are conducting a built cultural heritage survey to collect information about buildings, parks, residential areas, or other built environments that are important to you. Answer the survey at https://wlmkysely.toolforge.org
Please note these aspects:
- Flying drones is regulated; remember to take the relevant regulations into account.
- Respect the privacy of others. Ask for permission when photographing on private property, and remember to ask for consent to publish when people are present in your images.
Wikimedia Finland arranges the Finnish competition in collaboration with European Heritage Days, the Finnish Heritage Agency, and The Finnish Local Heritage Federation. The contest is running in Finland for the seventh time to inspire everyone to see and appreciate the cultural heritage around us.