What is Museum ?
A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment.
A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment.
1. Promote the natural and cultural inheritance of humanity
2. Museums that maintain collections hold them in trust for the benefit of society and its development
3. Museums hold primary evidence for establishing and furthering knowledge for communities and societies
4. Museums provide opportunities for the appreciation, understanding and promotion of the natural and cultural heritage
5. Museums hold resources that provide opportunities for other public services and benefits
6. Museums work in close collaboration with the communities from which their collections originate as well as those they serve
What is Conservation ?
Conservation means all the processes of looking after a place so as to retain its cultural significance. It includes maintenance and may, according to circumstances, include preservation, restoration, reconstruction, adaptation and interpretation and will commonly be a combination of more than one of these.
Place means site, area, building or other work, group of buildings or other works together with pertinent contents and surroundings.
Cultural significance means aesthetic, historic, scientific or social value for past, present or future generations.
What is Restoration ?
Restoration is a process that attempts to return the work of art to some previous state that restorer imagines to be "original". This was commonly done in the past. However, in the late 20th century a separate concept of conservation was developed that is more concerned with preserving the work of art for the future, and less with making it look pristine.
Restoration is controversial, since it often involves some irreversible change to the original material of the artwork with the goal of making it "look good." The attitude that has developed in recent years with the development of conservation is to attempt to make all restoration reversible.
