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Restoration like preservation, it works to maintain as much of the original material as possible. However, the focus of restoration is to present the property at a specific point in history. As result repairs and recreations of certain elements or fixtures are completed and anything which postdates the intended period is documented and removed.
The Venice Charter of 1964 was an international guideline for dealing with the original building fabric for the preservation of monuments; it is the most important monument conservation text of the 20th century and defines central values and procedures for the conservation and restoration of monuments.
A review of survey results and prioritisation of the various intrinsic, instrumental and institutional values to provide a clear basis for a 10-year strategy HR consultants to be brought in from the commercial sector to review recruitment, career development and working practices in the national and regional museums.
A landscape restoration project is underway at Aztec Ruins National Monument that will see native vegetation planted and nurtured as part of an effort to protect the park’s cultural resources.
There are plenty of modern upgrades at “Hogan's Alley,” but a significant goal of the $20 million-plus project was to restore the course to much of its original form.
Marlborough Mound is a Neolithic monument in the town of Marlborough in the English county of Wiltshire. Standing 19 metres (60 ft) tall, it is second only to the nearby Silbury Hill in terms of height for such a monument. Modern study situates the construction date around 2400 BC. [1] It was first listed as a Scheduled Monument in 1951. [2]
Reconstruction is "returning a place to a known earlier state; distinguished from restoration by the introduction of new material into the fabric." [18] The aim of reconstruction is to "preserve and reveal the aesthetic and historic value of the monument and is based on respect for original material and authentic documents." [19]
The restoration in any case must be preceded and followed by an archaeological and historical study of the monument. Article 10. Where traditional techniques prove inadequate, the consolidation of a monument can be achieved by the use of any modern technique for conservation and construction, the efficacy of which has been shown by scientific ...