Heritage: Defining intangible cultural heritage
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D'Art Report: Defining and Mapping Intangible Cultural Heritage
D'Art Topics in Arts Policy no.36, February 2009
IFACCA and the Museums Galleries Scotland
The Scottish Arts Council and the Scottish Museums Council have commissioned Professor Alistair McCleery to undertake a preliminary study of the issues, both theoretical and practical, in making an inventory of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in Scotland in conformity with the UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Publications
Return of cultural objects: the Athens conference
The 'Return of cultural objects: the Athens conference' recently oublished by MUSEUM International includes case studies, a discussion on ethical and legal aspects of returning cultural objects, information with regard to mediation and cultural diplomacy, international cooperation and research. more >
Patrimonio Cultural de España
El Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España, Subdirección dependiente de la Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Bienes Culturales del Ministerio de Cultura, ha presentado una nueva revista en español e inglés, denominada Patrimonio Cultural de España. Su objetivo es convertirse en espacio de reflexión y debate sobre los diversos proyectos de investigación, conservación, restauración y puesta en valor de bienes culturales de la política de gestión patrimonial.more >
Cultural Heritage of Spain
The Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain, within the Directorate General of Fine Arts and Cultural Assets of the Ministry of Culture, has presented a new magazine in Spanish and English, entitled Cultural Heritage of Spain. Its goal is to become a space for reflection and discussion on various research projects, conservation, restoration and asset management policy. more >
Guidance on inventory and documentation of the cultural heritage
Part of a series produced under the Technical Co-operation and Assistance Programme to present the experience derived from the projects implemented by the Council of Europe. more >
D'Art report: Defining and Mapping Intangible Cultural Heritage
The D’Art was undertaken in collaboration with Museums Galleries Scotland, as a preliminary study of the issues, both theoretical and practical, in making an inventory of ICH in Scotland in conformity with the UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage. more >
European heritage - Sustainable development strategies in South-East Europe
This is the third volume in a series that examines how the enhancement of cultural and natural heritage can contribute to the implementation of sustainable development projects. more >
Guidelines for Documenting, Recording and Digitizing Intangible Cultural Heritage
Surveys of existing practices, protocols and policies for documenting, recording and digitizing intangible cultural heritage. more >
Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: Key Factors in Implementing the 2003 Convention
Is the 2003 Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention up to the task it has set for itself? more >
Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage
The adoption of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was the culminating point of UNESCO’s lengthy quest for the function and values of cultural expressions and practices, and of monuments and sites. more >
News
China to drop poorly-managed intangible cultural heritage from list
China will set up a system to eliminate poorly-managed intangible cultural heritage, according to a notice issued by the Ministry of Culture on Thursday. more >
Tonga hosts summit to safeguard Intangible Cultural Heritage
Representatives from around the Pacific gathered at the Tonga National Cultural Centre in Tofoa today for a two-day conference on the protection of intangible cultural traditions of Pacific peoples. more >
Opening of Intangible Heritage Course
Cultural Heritage plays a vital role in unifying and creating understanding among people. Culture can also strengthen regional and international cooperation by creating mutual respect and tolerance. more >
Experts call for detailed rules of law on protecting China's ICH
China is speeding up its protection on the country's intangible cultural heritage. The latest milestone is that the protection has been written into law after being in preparation since 2005. So, what are the do's and don'ts of the law? more >
Do Flamenco and the Mediterranean diet really deserve special UN status?
By trying to be all-inclusive, Unesco's intangible heritage list can become hijacked by nations' commercial interests. more >
Action to protect newly-recognised intangible culture
Vietnam has snapped into action to protect two of its indigenous art forms after they were recently recognised by UNESCO as part of the world’s intangible cultural heritage. more >
How to classify intangible cultural heritage
Ideas were recently floated on classifying intangible cultural heritage by the public and the law makers.
The public considered it necessary to classify intangible cultural heritage, which covers such things as special dances, ethnic music and special art, throughout the country, but the law makers decided evaluating and listing were sufficient with classification.
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Plans adopted for Hilandar restoration
Serbia's Republic and Provincial Institutes for Protection of Culture Monuments, the National Library of Serbia, with support of a group of Greece's leading experts in the field, are all taking part in the reconstruction works at Hilandar, ravaged in a fire five years ago. more >
Thailand returns 7 stolen artifacts to Cambodia
Thailand on Friday handed over seven pieces of Cambodian artifacts stolen by illegal smugglers upon request of the Cambodian government. It is a positive gesture from Thai side in friendship and cooperation, said Hor Nam Hong, deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation.
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Notebook of sketches by Picasso worth £7m stolen
A notebook containing 32 sketches by Pablo Picasso, valued at about €8m (£7m), vanished yesterday from the Picasso Museum in central Paris. more >
Ministry under fire for failing to preserve heritage
National Assembly Standing Committee on Culture expressed dissatisfaction over the insufficient efforts made by the Ministry of Culture to preserve National Heritages as it has been observed that most of the Historical Buildings are in dilapidated condition and directed the Ministry to ensure their proper maintenance to preserve them. more >
Futurebank sponsors 17th Heritage Festival in Bahrain
Bahrain-based Futurebank, in its first local sponsorship activity, has sponsored the 17th Heritage Festival, organised by the Cultural and National Heritage Sector at the Ministry of Culture and Information. more >
Greek government unveils new home for Elgin Marbles
Fresh demands for the return of the Elgin Marbles are accompanying the launch next month of the £115 million Acropolis Museum, which has a reserved space for the world's most famous piece of classical statuary. more >
Babylon ruins reopen in Iraq, to controversy
After decades of dictatorship and disrepair, Iraq is celebrating its renewed sovereignty over the Babylon archaeological site — by fighting over the place, over its past and future and, of course, over its spoils. more >
Almost $3 million awarded to support conservation efforts at nation’s museums
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced today the 35 recipients of $2,994,748 million in Conservation Project Support (CPS) grants. These grants are awarded to museums that are committed to identifying conservation needs and priorities, and performing activities to ensure the safekeeping of their collections. more >
Angolan historical figures list drafted
The Ministry of Culture has drafted a list containing the names of Angolan historical figures, following a study carried out by experts of the Multi-Sectoral Commission, to valorise and disseminate the deeds of the most distinguished national personalities over the time around the country. more >
Indonesian minister of culture’s public apology for destruction of archaeological site
The Indonesian minister for culture and tourism was forced to make a public apology after the government ignored urgent warnings and failed to halt a controversial new museum and visitor centre in Mojokerto, East Java, which caused extensive damage to important archaeological remains at Trowulan. more >
New regulations on historical sites
Vietnam has more than 3,000 major historical sites and tens of thousands of smaller ones scattered across the country and there is an urgent need to restore and preserve them at any cost. more >
Pulling masterpieces from the ruins
Italy is dispatching art-rescue teams to assess damage and move pieces to safer locationsAs Italy spent Friday in a national day of mourning with an open-air funeral mass for most of its 289 earthquake victims, the country has begun scouring for an invaluable part of its past: its art. more >
Greece donates replica of precious archaic korai to China
The Greek Ministry of Culture on Tuesday donated a replica of an ancient marble statue named Peplophoros to a Chinese museum that is under construction. more >
Mungyeong to host festival of traditional tea bowls
Mungyeong, North Gyeongsang Province, is hosting the 11th Traditional Tea Bowl Festival May 1-10, offering visitors the chance to appreciate the beauty and culture of traditional tea and tea bowls. more >
Five million euros from govt to restore quake-hit museums
The Italian government allocated five million euros to help rebuild museums damaged or destroyed by Monday's devastating earthquake in the mountainous central Italian Abruzzo region. Italy's ministry of culture and economic development ministries announced the funds in a statement. more >
The SEC meets Latin America representative of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO
Authorities of the Ministry of Culture and the Department for Monuments and Heritage met Nuria Sanz, Head of Unit for Latin America, Caribbean and Central America to UNESCO, in efforts to monitor the management of the Colonial City, declared World Cultural Heritage and assess the impact that this city could have on the development of projects. more >
Report released on Intangible Cultural Heritage
We are delighted to release our D’Art report no. 36: Defining and Mapping Intangible Cultural Heritage. more >
Beijing to host biggest intangible cultural heritage exhibit
China will stage the largest exhibition of intangible cultural heritage items in its history here from Feb. 9 to 23, according to the Ministry of Culture. more >
The safeguarding of intangible heritage is necessary for the survival of cultures
The survival of local cultures, their ability to defy time, will require the preservation of our heritage, not only the protection of our languages and traditions but also their international, even global, expansion, commented the Director of the Cabinet of the Ministry of Culture. more >
La sauvegarde du patrimoine immatériel est nécessaire à la survie des cultures
La survie de cultures locales, leur capacité à ‘’défier le temps’’, passera ‘’nécessairement par la sauvegarde de notre patrimoine immatériel, non seulement la protection de nos langues et traditions mais encore leur expansion internationale, voire planétaire’’, selon le directeur de cabinet du ministre de la Culture. more >
Ratification of the 2003 Convention on the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage
The Government of Botswana is in the process of ratifying the 2003 Convention on the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in order for the country to be able to safeguard and ensure respect for its intangible cultural heritage. more >
China submits 35 examples of culture to UNESCO
China has submitted 35 files of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Chinese calligraphy is listed as one of the files presented. more >
An integrated approach is required for a successful movement of heritage preservation and promotion
The Culture and Tourism Minister Smt. Ambika Soni has said that an integrated approach is required for a successful movement of heritage preservation and promotion. more >
Intangible cultural heritage protection law expected to be passed
China's first national census on intangible cultural heritage is coming to an end, according to Zhou Heping, Vice Minister of Ministry of Culture. Collections of each province are expected to be published before 2010. more >
5th Vietnam Cultural Heritage Festival opens
The opening ceremony of the Vietnam Cultural Heritage Festival will take place at the Vietnam Culture-Art Exhibition Centre in Hanoi tonight, November 21, with a show featuring the culture of Hue ancient capital. more >
China offers subsidies for heirs to intangible cultural heritage items
Heirs to state-level intangible cultural heritage (ICH) items will receive an annual work allowance of about 1,160 U.S. dollars from the central government, the Ministry of Culture has announced. The subsidy is to support folk arts, crafts and rituals, many of which are in danger of dying out.
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Iraq Cultural Heritage Project (ICHP)
The principal goals of the Project include: establishment of a Conservation and Historic Preservation Institute in Erbil; the Iraq National Museum: Improvements to the professional environment within the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad; professional Development and Capacity Building for Iraq’s Museums. more >
Abu Dhabi prepares book on intangible heritage
The Department of Intangible Heritage at the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage has prepared a book on the proceedings of the first regional meeting regarding intangible Arab heritage, held in Abu Dhabi in 2007. more >
GES plans to use cultural heritage as a major strategy for nation's development
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has mapped out a comprehensive strategy to preserve, harness and use the Ghanaian cultural heritage and resources to develop a vibrant and a prosperous national community. more >
2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage becoming operational
After two years of intense work by the Intergovernmental Committee, the Operational Directives of the 2003 Convention are ready for consideration by the General Assembly of the States Parties to the Convention when it meets in Paris (16-19 June). Once approved, the 2003 Convention becomes fully operational. more >
Safeguarding culture for future generations
The Culture and Tourism Ministry and UNESCO have held a workshop in Jakarta on strengthening national capacities for implementing the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. more >
PNG to safeguard intangible cultural heritage
PNG's government agencies have started in earnest preparations for ratification of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. more >
Safeguarding intangible heritage at the top of the agenda of Commission for UNESCO conference
The Director-General of UNESCO has laid particular emphasis on UNESCO’s work to promote cultural diversity, highlighting both the importance of integrating culture into development policies, and the need to recognize the multiple forms through which cultural diversity is expressed. more >
UNESCO MEETING OF EXPERTS ON INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE CONVENTION CONCLUDES
A UNESCO meeting of experts on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Convention has concluded in Dehli. more >
India ratifies Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention
India's Tourism and Culture Minister, Ambika Soni, has welcomed and enthusiastically ratified the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention. more >
UNESCO to Meet On Cultural Heritage
An extraordinary session of the General Assembly of the States Parties to the International Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage will be held on 17 October at UNESCO Headquarters. more >
UNESCO Aims to Protect the Intangible
This week in Paris the countries that ratified the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage are meeting -- without Germany. But what is it that they want to protect? more >
UNESCO Holds Meeting on Intangible Heritage
The first meeting of UNESCO state parties to the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage will start today, June 27 2006, and will run for three days. more >
General Assembly of the States Parties to the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Culture
During its first session, and in accordance with Articles 4.2 and 5.1 of the Intangible Heritage Convention, the General Assembly will adopt respectively its Rules of Procedure and will elect an Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. more >
Intangible Cultural Heritage to Be Listed
A three-day International Symposium on the Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage started on Tuesday in Beijing. more >
Process of registering Bakhtiari traditions on UNESCO’s cultural heritage list begins
A UNESCO committee compiling data for the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity list is currently holding discussions on the traditional costumes, dance, and music of the Bakhtiari ethnic group of Iran. more >
Macao campaigns for Intangible Heritage of Humanity candidacy
Addressing UNESCO’s 32nd General Conference, the President of the Macao Cultural Institute proposed that Associate Members of the organisation be granted equal rights in candidacy for Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity status. more >
Linking intangible cultural heritage and cultural diversity
Some 80 ministers of culture and other relevant officials, representing around 100 nations, are currently meeting in Istanbul for what is thought to be the first round-table to discuss possible government action in preserving the world’s intangible cultural heritage, vested in languages, customs, songs, plays, dances, celebrations and craft skills. more >
Linking intangible cultural heritage and cultural diversity
Some 80 ministers of culture are to meet in Istanbul on September 16 and 17 to debate the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, highlighting its importance in the maintenance of the world’s cultural diversity. more >
Events
Call for papers: Measures of Support for Intangible Cultural Heritage : Governments, Institutions and Municipalities
Through this conference the Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant (CQPV) will bring together professionals and decision-makers in the field in order to encourage the exchange of international expertise. more >
Measures of Support for Intangible Cultural Heritage : Governments, Institutions and Municipalities
Call for papers. This conference will provide a way for participants to discover best practices in the field and to evaluate how the experience of certain countries or municipalities could apply elsewhere. It will also provide ways to learn from actual regional case studies in order to better reflect on the whole process of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. more >
International Conference on Intangible Heritage “Sharing Cultures”
Sharing Cultures 2009, organised by The Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development , is aimed experts and scholars interested in Cultural and Intangible Heritage. Conference topics focus on the role of intangible heritage in various aspects – from sustainable development to policies and management, from cultural tourism to museums and education etc. more >
Second Pacific meeting on the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
The meeting aims at reinforcing capacities among governmental decision-makers in the Pacific in order to develop measures and policies for the safeguarding of their intangible cultural heritage. Governmental representatives from all Pacific States have been invited to attend. more >
Heritage and Culture: Challenges and innovation in public policy and practice
This study programme will consider topics such as policy reform, cultural tourism development, funding strategies, community heritage and intangible heritage, site management, and sustainable development as well as innovative approaches to heritage and culture in the modern world. more >
Preservation of cultural heritage and local community development, History, Identity, Heritage and Memory
The objective is to exchange the latest ideas and practices on culture and heritage preservation as it relates to community development in both developed/developing environments. more >
The international who's who in cultural policy, planning and research >