Essay On Cultural Heritage

1.1 analyse the growth and development of the heritage and cultural industry

When the term Cultural Heritage is used its mostly revered and expressed to describe ways of living which is developed by the public, locals and which then passed that on from generation to generation to generation, all of this includes customs to practices, places, objects, creative expressions and values. Cultural Heritage is often stated as either Intangible or Tangible Cultural Heritage (ICOMOS, 2002).

As part of human activity Cultural Heritage produces tangible symbols of the value systems, thing like beliefs, traditions and lifestyles. As a vital part of our culture as a whole, Cultural Heritage, covers these noticeable and tangible traces form antiquity to the recent past.

Cultural Heritage is a wide concept. For t that reason its best to concentrate on the similarities between the various heritages sectors, rather on their differences.

Different Cultural Heritage types

• Cultural Heritage can be distinguished in:

• Built Environment (Buildings, Townscapes, Archaeological remains)

• Natural Environment (Rural landscapes, Coasts and shorelines, Agricultural heritage)

• Artefacts (Books & Documents, Objects, Pictures)

Developing cultural heritage tourism will take some time to be completed. Keeping in mind that developing a strong cultural heritage program will require an investment and a commitment—an investment of financial resources and a commitment of human resources including strong leadership. Furthermore this does not mean that any community can have a successful cultural heritage tourism program. For example communities that have lost too much of their own heritage, or not decided to develop their cultural to the full potential may...

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...tes from the Department of National Heritage (DNH), which itself was established in 1992 11 April out of numerous other departments, shortly after the Conservative election success. The former Ministers for the Arts and for Sport had previously been located in other departments. The DNH was retitled as the "Department for Culture, Media and Sport" (DCMS) on 14 July 1997, by the Premiership of Tony Blair. Lastly DCMS is not all about media sports it has also other responsibilities for example DCMS is also about historic buildings, scheduling of ancient monuments, and export licensing of cultural belongings, and board of the Government Art Collection (GAC).

Strategic priorities

Its five strategic priorities are:

• children and young people

• communities

• delivery

• economy

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