Know the Significance of Conservation of Cultural Heritage

Cultural heritage refers to the cultural aspects like heritage buildings, monuments, folklore, traditional activities and practices, language etc. that are considered significant to be preserved for the future generations. Cultural heritage provides people a connection to certain social values, beliefs, religions and customs.

Cultural heritage provides an automatic sense of unity and belonging within a group and enabled us to comprehend about previous generations and the history of where we come from. By seeing historic structures?whether associated with something popular or recognisably dramatic?tourists and long time residents are able to witness the aesthetic and cultural history of an area.

An attractive heritage environment helps in attracting external investment as well as maintaining existing businesses of all types, not simply tourism-related. Similarly as banks prefer to build stately, old-fashioned facades, even when located in commercial malls, a city needs old buildings to maintain a sense of permanency and heritage.

People are proud of their local history, but don’t always express how much they value a place until it is threatened. Since it adds character and distinctiveness to an area, heritage is a fundamental in developing a ‘sense of place’ for a community.

At the centre of any Conservation of Cultural Heritage strategy is a statement of cultural importance, derived from a thorough physical, historical and comparative analysis of the place. Adaptive reuse of heritage structures is an important factor in creating sustainable communities. Heritage structures add value to regeneration projects, both in terms the economic and environmental advantage of reuse over new build and in adding character to an area. Heritage sites can be a potent driver for community action.

Improved community values and greater social connection can be achieved through a focus on heritage matters. The heritage places are an excellent local educational resource for people of all ages.

Finding about the history of an area is a good way of bringing communities together through a shared understanding of the unique cultural identity heritage sites provide to an area.

Areas where the heritage is understood and valued tend to be better looked after than those where heritage things have no connection with the community. Such connections help to encourage civic responsibility and citizenship and contribute to everyone’s quality of life.

The conservation of historic buildings is a one-way street. There is no choice to renovate or to save a historic site once it’s gone. Also, we can never be confident about what will be valued in the future. This reality brings to light the significance of locating and saving structures of historic significance?because once a piece of history is damaged, it is lost forever.

Regeneration, education, housing, economic growth and community engagement are some examples of the ways in which heritage can make a highly positive contribution to community life.

So, it is important to understand the significance of Conservation of Cultural Heritage for present as well as future generations.

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