FORMS OF PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HISTORICAL CULTURAL HERITAGE (CASE STUDY)

Abstract

A major problem associated with material cultural heritage is the ability to protect and preserve historic movable objects, such as sculptures, paintings, and various works of art. The traditional way has been to amass them in state or private collections, aiming to systematically record, catalog, describe, and photograph them. Due to various circumstances, including acts of theft and warfare, either paper inventories or the artworks themselves have often been lost. The lack of actual catalogs has made it impossible to reconstruct lists of museum objects, including those with significant historical and artistic value, making it difficult to search for and identify them in the future. With technological advances, a variety of media, including modern methods of digitization, have been used to enable universal access to cultural heritage. This article identifies stages in the evolution of the need for preserving and presenting cultural heritage, taking into account the advanced creation of three-dimensional reproduction.