scholarly journals Cultural Heritage Management. Case study “Tobacco Museum in Kavala”

Author(s):  
Ioakimidis Panagiotis ◽  

Cultural heritage in Greece is natural and also, sources from human activity. Thus, it needs to be protected as a whole by the state. For such a reason, local responsible authorities cooperate with the Ministry of Culture and with each other, in order to manage the cultural and natural heritage of the country. A remarkable number of monuments are included in the World Cultural Heritage list of UNESCO. The Tobacco Museum in Kavala is a unique of its kind and an industrial museum. It is located in the building of the National Tobacco Association and is a thematic museum, as it includes documents and material about tobacco and its history in the town. It shows the procedure of manufacturing tobacco, as well as its agricultural and industrial process. By applying the model of Organized Behavior for the visitor, it has been conducted that visitors’ intentions are strongly related to the communication with the personnel of the museum and the services provided.

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 00065 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominika Kuśnierz-Krupa

The article concerns the history, revalorisation and accessibility of the cultural heritage in the historic town of Provins, located to the southwest of Paris. The town was founded in the early medieval period, and in the 12th and 13th century it was one of the most prominent fair towns in Champagne. Many valuable monuments of that period have survived until the present time, such as the urban layout, the defensive walls, the Cesar tower supposedly relating to the legendary origins of the town dating back to the Roman period, churches and relics of residential buildings. In 2001, the above mentioned buildings were appreciated and distinguished by the UNESCO Committee which inscribed Provins in the World Heritage List. This distinction is not merely a matter of pride for the local authorities, but also an obligation to properly maintain the historic heritage, to revalorise it constantly and to educate the community regarding the protection of the town heritage. It must be stated that the authorities perfectly fulfil their responsibilities, which is worth presenting in this article to set an example of proper cultural heritage management for other historic towns.


Author(s):  
Hanaw M. Taqi M. Amin ◽  
Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the challenges to urban cultural heritage management conservation in the historical city of Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan-Iraq. The paper focusses on the roles and interactions of stakeholders and the issues that confront the decision-making processes that underpin the management of historic city towns. Design/methodology/approach A case study methodology is utilised for this research. It involves documentary analysis and interviews with stakeholders who are part of the management of the historic city centre of Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan-Iraq. The findings from this case study are analysed in a systematic way before being discussed in the context of the literature on urban cultural heritage management. Findings The research shows that although there is a shared vision of the need to preserve and conserve urban cultural heritage, the management process is a contentious one. Stakeholders have different ideas as to how to achieve conservation goals which leads to increasing conflicts among stakeholders. This situation is compounded by the limited financial resources available to local government agencies, political interference in the work of implementation agencies and the lack of capacity in local government to enforce rules and carry out conservation projects. There are also significant power differentials among stakeholders in the decision-making process which often means that local residents are excluded from the process of conserving their built urban heritage. Practical implications This research can help practitioners who are in charge of urban cultural heritage management in dealing with stakeholder conflicts. The paper offers insight into a number of sources of stakeholder conflicts and on ways to overcome these in the planning process. Originality/value The originality of research lies in the novelty of the case study area. This research highlights the issues of built heritage conservation management and planning practices in an area – Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan-Iraq – that is geographically less represented in the extant literature. The research also identifies some of the key sources of conflict in urban heritage conservation projects and provides an insight into the roles of stakeholders in the management of smaller locally-dependent historic city centres.


2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-46
Author(s):  
Ekaterina T. CHERKASOVA

In the article the problem of preservation of the architectural ensemble of the square of Svodody in Kharkov and Gosprom building is viewed. This architectural monument of constructivism is presented for including in the provisional list of objects of the world cultural heritage. The need to allocate a buffer zone is justified by international regulatory documents for protection of cultural heritage and risks of lossing of visual integrity of the ensemble of buildings in connection with absence of the town-planning regulation of building free areas.


Archaeologies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Guilfoyle ◽  
Genevieve Carey ◽  
Andy J. Rogers ◽  
Michael Bernard ◽  
Raven Willoya-Williams

AmS-Varia ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 43-59
Author(s):  
Even Bjørdal

This article discusses how to better unlock the information potential of unremarkable, though complex, prehistoric stone-built structures, by integrating the past 30 years worth of Nordic archaeological research results into aspects of the Norwegian Cultural Heritage Management processes. Traditionally, it has been rather commonplace to interpret such manmade collections of rocks as remains of either clearance of fields for agricultural purposes or as containers for burials, but this dichotomy should now be regarded as an oversimplification. The site of Orstad in the county of Rogaland, SW Norway, excavated in 2014, serves as a case study. This paper demonstrates how difficult it can be to put updated theories and methods into proper use in the field. Since these new research results call for changes in the approach to the subject were not sufficiently considered in the planning process, neither time nor budget allowed for an adequate examination of the individual structures and their context. This is likely to cause information loss, which creates challenges for both the excavation and post-excavation phases of an archaeological investigation. This paper stresses the need to update and improve how excavations of such sites are handled within Norwegian cultural heritage management. By applying new approaches, such localities can yield more information about the past than previously assumed.


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