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How can you help in preservation of Cultural Property ?
By Kamaljit Ksh *
Since country's cultural property belongs to all of us, it is our collective responsibility to preserve and maintain it. With a little thought and care everybody could contribute to the cause of conservation. The following guidelines may act in that direction.
- We should not indulge in defacing the objects/monuments. If possible help in checking the menace of vandalism.
- We should learn proper techniques of handling, transporting and storing different types of artifacts.
- If possible we should try to know what might harm the cultural property and stop doing that.
- We should not hesitate in taking professionals help at the first sign of decay. We should not fall to the temptation of resorting to curative conservation unless really qualified to do so.
- We should try to act as a precursor to generate and mound public opinion on issues related to conservation.
- We should never forget that “Prevention is better than Cure”, so we should try to give greater emphasis on Preventive conservation.
- And we should also realize that the task of conservation is too big to be left alone to museum/archaeology/archives department and conservation professionals. We all must lend our bit.
Kamal K. Jain, Manjari Agrawal)
* Kamaljit Ksh contributes to e-pao.net regularly. The writer can be contacted at kamaljitksh(at)gmail(dot)com
This article was webcasted on October 02 2011.
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