Perception of Cultural Heritage and Monument Protection

Abstract

The paper highlights the importance of a comprehensive treatment of cultural heritage which contributes to the possibility of interdisciplinary cooperation between various human, social and natural disciplines. In addition to cooperation of different branches a successful physical renovation requires also the understanding of skills and technologies for processing materials from the past, that is from the time when an individual protected monument was built. The protection of immaterial heritage in the present time is closely linked to this finding and is more and more often applied in monument protection activities. Without taking into consideration the skills and knowledge from the past we cannot perform quality renovations of cultural monuments nor ensure basic ethic principles of monument protection of professional and amateur conservators in the field.

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Članek osvetljuje pomen celostne obravnave kulturne dediščine, ki prispeva k možnosti interdisciplinarnega sodelovanja različnih humanističnih, družbenih in naravoslovnih znanosti. Uspešna fizična obnova poleg sodelovanja različnih ved zahteva tudi razumevanje veščin in tehnologij obdelave gradiv v času, ko je bil zgrajen zaščiteni spomenik. Varstvo nesnovne dediščine danes je s tem tesno povezano in tudi vse bolj uporabljeno v dejavnosti zaščite spomenikov. Brez upoštevanja preteklih veščin in znanja ni mogoča kakovostna prenova kulturnih spomenikov, prav tako pa brez tega ni mogoče zagotoviti osnovnih etičnih načel poklicnega in amaterskega varovanja na terenu.