How Our Ideas Of Heritage And Conservation Are Changing

“As our experience of landscape changes, so do our ideas about what constitutes heritage. While curators and managers once focused on the protection of specific sites and buildings, they now also seek a broader, more holistic understanding of the historic environment. This shift in emphasis is partly due to our increasingly mobile society, which has created a heightened sense of ‘localness’, and a growing appreciation of personal views of what matters and why.”