Press Release: Report on Preservation and Conservation of World Cultural Heritage
The Institute of Museum and Library Services co-sponsored a seminar last fall in Salzburg, Austria on the state of the world’s cultural heritage. Over thirty countries were represented and a report called “Connecting to the World’s Collections: Making the Case for Conservation and Preservation of Our Cultural Heritage” has just been released.
What I like about the report is the high level of collaboration between countries and institutions to preserve and promote the value of cultural heritage. I detected a much less elitist attitude and much more inclusiveness in this report that what I’ve seen in other treatises. It will be interesting to see how many of these ideas and attitudes trickle down to institutions and professionals who were not at the conference. Nevertheless, it gives me great hope!
If you don’t want to read the whole report, you can read the summary here. Full information on the seminar is available here. And here’s a nice bibliography of resources that were used and referred to during the making of the report.
