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1. Cultural heritage: 7 successes of UNESCO’s preservation work
Link: https://www.unesco.org/en/cultural-heritage-7-successes-unescos-preservation-work
Description: WEBLast update:18 July 2023. The power of preserving cultural heritage to build a better world. Why do we go to great lengths to preserve culture and make it bloom? Culture is a resource for the identity and cohesion of communities. In today’s interconnected world, it is also one of our most powerful resources to transform societies and renew ideas.
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2. Cultural heritage - Wikipedia
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_heritage
Description: WEBThe deliberate act of keeping cultural heritage from the present for the future is known as preservation (American English) or conservation (British English), which cultural and historical ethnic museums and cultural centers promote, though these terms may have more specific or technical meanings in the same contexts in the other dialect.
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3. Heritage Conservation Future: Where We Stand, Challenges …
Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/gch2.202100084
Description: WEBOct 15, 2021 · The act of preserving cultural heritage is known as Heritage Conservation, and it mostly focuses on doing everything possible to delay the natural laws of deterioration on tangible items to guarantee the transmission of its significant heritage messages and values for future generations.
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4. World Heritage | UNESCO
Link: https://www.unesco.org/en/world-heritage
Description: WEBThe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.
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5. How the Smithsonian Protects Cultural Heritage Around the World
Link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/smithsonian-protect-cultural-heritage-around-world-180979234/
Description: WEBThe Haiti project galvanized the cultural preservation community, and in 2012, the Smithsonian formed the Cultural Rescue Initiative. This group is tasked with preserving cultural...
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6. UNESCO World Heritage Centre - World Heritage
Link: https://whc.unesco.org/en/about/
Description: WEBThe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.
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7. Organizations and agencies that work to protect cultural heritage
Link: https://smarthistory.org/preserve-cultural-heritage/
Description: WEBDec 6, 2023 · The Department’s Cultural Heritage Center specializes in the protection and preservation of these irreplaceable resources, working on many fronts to safeguard the patrimony of other countries” Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (FAIC)
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8. Looking to the Future: Global Challenges to Cultural Heritage Preservation
Link: https://www.wmf.org/blog/looking-future-global-challenges-cultural-heritage-preservation
Description: WEBMar 3, 2021 · After decades working to underscore, preserve, and rehabilitate key cultural heritage in countries around the world from Albania to Zimbabwe, our commitment to our planet’s monuments of cultural expression and human ingenuity is as strong as ever.
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9. UNESCO World Heritage Centre - The World Heritage Convention
Link: https://whc.unesco.org/en/convention/
Description: WEBThe Convention. The World Heritage Convention. The most significant feature of the 1972 World Heritage Convention is that it links together in a single document the concepts of nature conservation and the preservation of cultural properties.
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10. Preserving Cultural Heritage Worldwide — Google Arts & Culture
Link: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/jgXBNdIGicrpkQ
Description: WEBWorking together with international partners to preserve heritage protects culturally important sites, objects, and practices and increases mutual understanding. Cultural heritage...
