Heritage museums cherish and conserve the legacy through: artifacts, testimonies, narratives by exhibiting different turning points of history, while displaying the main ethics that are valuable to a community. Thanks to modern age technology and changes, heritage museums are able to expand their actual facts through the internet, notably via the museum websites. However, considering the fact that no history is able to cover all the basis, heritage museums along with historic sites have to be eclectic
ensure that heritage will be able to be passed on to future generations. This essay will examine how preservation and interpretation of both tangible and intangible heritage build public trust in museums, archives and historic places. It will examine preservation, administration and visitor policies that encourage and maintain public trust. Before discussing public trust, this essay will define key terms used in the subsequent discussion: conservation, preservation, tangible heritage and intangible
The Sparks Heritage Museum is an important architectural facet of the Sparks area. The building was built in 1931, by Rousch & Belz Contractors, and designed by Frederic J. DeLongchamps to serve as the Sparks branch of the Washoe County Library. The building served as the first public library in area and is located at 814 Victorian Ave, Sparks, NV (all PDF). The building was placed on the Nation Register of Historic Places in 1984 (Website) and displays influences from the Mediterranean Revival style
paintings to different artefacts are museums. Their historical development also led to intellectual evolution and divergence of the public thought on objects that are placed inside. Today we question the values of seeing those objects; for an example, museum sceptics undermine the value of museums and collections. Nevertheless, there are several main points that argue against the beliefs of “museum sceptics” and they propose that when seeing objects in a museum we gain value of praising and preserving
manifestations of Indigenous culture were discovered during the process of the colonization of Australia. The first Europeans to arrive in Australia made note of the cultural artifacts they encountered. Artifacts such as weapons, drawings, sheets of bark and engravings were collected as colonized culture and housed in scientific and natural history museums where they shared the space with geological, plant and animal specimens. These objects were initially collected as curiosities and as sources of information
failure of museum to capitalize their collections and report them as assets. According to the Australian Accounting Standards, annual general-purpose financial reports will be misrepresented if heritage and collections are included as assets. One of the criteria’s of an asset is to bring future economic benefit. The question raised in relation to museum is whether the public heritage collections have any future economic benefits deriving from the collections which is economic to the museum? These arguments
The sustainable measures of Middle Eastern heritage buildings are limited, as well the international green rating system versions are still unsuitable and unable to adapt the local conditions and customs. Despite the Arab efforts to have their own rating systems, such as Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Kuwait (Komurlu, Ruveyda, Asli Pelin Gurgun, and David Arditi 2015, Omar Attallah, Sherif, Ahmad Senouci, Amr Kandil, and Hassan Al-Derham 2013), sustainability in most Middle Eastern countries is still deficient
Conflict, Looting and the Law Iraq has over ten thousand registered archaeological sites (Patron 2008:466) and there is a long history of uncontrolled excavations which resulted from the demand for antiquities in museums and the mantelpieces of London, New York and Tokyo. When Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq in 1973 (Bio 2013) he used nationalistic parallels with Babylonian history to stimulate a national unity (Cuno 2011:54) - for example Nebuchadnezzar II’s palace at Babylon was rebuilt
In the dictionary, heritage represents valuable things that have been passed down to descendants. The behavior of heritage protection is a process of inheritance. Heritage protection not only conserves precious historical places and objects, but also provides the authentic environments for people to experience and research history. The valued and diverse heritage can bring a great impact on people’s behavior and feeling. Industrial heritage, as an essential part of heritage, has become a booming
experience. Heritage, on the other hand, can be viewed as the pieces of the past we, as humans, hold dear and place significance in. Each of these viewpoints are used to tell stories or narratives. The goals of these narratives are often very different from each other, whether it be to make money telling a story, providing correct information to the world, to promote a political agenda, etc. The purpose of these stories are often derived from the viewpoints taken, in this case heritage versus history